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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 01, 2019
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Florian Altinger, Shenyang/Heping District, CN;
Juergen Bruegl, Munich, DE;
Robert Isele, Fuerstenfeldbruck, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A lighting apparatus for a motor vehicle includes a processing module configured to receive, process and send signals from a data bus of the motor vehicle, and a light-emitting diode (LED) unit configured to emit light of adjustable brightness and prescribed color locus. The LED unit has a microcontroller and a plurality of LEDs, where the microcontroller and the LEDs are surrounded by a package of the LED unit. The LED unit is further configured to communicate bidirectionally with the processing module so that a present status value of the LED unit, which status value is representative of a functionality of the LED unit, is ascertainable by the LED unit and the processing module.