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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2018
Applicant:
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg, DE;
Inventors:
Bernhard Bley, Hannover, DE;
Andreas Löhner, Vechelde, DE;
Henning Wöhl-Bruhn, Cremlingen, DE;
Oliver Von Sehlen, Eicklingen, DE;
Assignee:
VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Wolfsburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); F16H 63/42 (2006.01); H05B 45/325 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 63/42 (2013.01); H05B 45/325 (2020.01); F16H 2063/423 (2013.01);
Abstract
A gear indicator illumination unit for a vehicle, particularly for an automatic vehicle, is shown. The gear indicator illumination unit provides basic lighting and individual spot lighting from a plurality of different lighting devices, particularly in the form of LEDs. The gear indicator illumination unit has a plurality of lighting devices for indicating the gear and a memory for saving parameters and/or characteristic curves of the lighting devices.