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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2020
Hella Gmbh & Co. Kgaa, Lippstadt, DE;
Bernd Fischer, Altenbeken, DE;
Marc Kaup, Paderborn, DE;
Diana Mundt, Lippstadt, DE;
Benjamin Willeke, Paderborn, DE;
Jan-Henning Willrodt, Hamburg, DE;
Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA, Lippstadt, DE;
Abstract
A lighting apparatus for an automated or partially automated vehicle, having a light module, which contains a light source unit having a number of light sources and an optical unit assigned to the light source unit for generating a light signal, a surroundings sensor unit for detecting road users in surroundings of the vehicle, a control unit for controlling the light module, so that the light module generates the light signal as a function of the road users detected by the surroundings sensor unit and/or a relative position thereof with respect to the vehicle, the light module being positioned in a defined location of the vehicle and being designed in such a way that the light signal may be radiated at different horizontal and/or vertical spatial angles.