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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2021
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Tilman Armbruster, Ingolstadt, DE;
Stephan Berlitz, Schrobenhausen, DE;
Johannes Reschke, Langquaid, DE;
Marcel Debelec, Ingolstadt, DE;
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
A method for operating at least one direction indicator of a motor vehicle, wherein, as of an actuation time, the direction indicator outputs a light signal comprising a periodic repetition of alternately successive on-phases and off-phases. A discrepancy of a starting phase angle of the light signal with respect to a predefined reference signal is determined at the actuation time and is compared with a predefined target phase angle assigned to the direction indicator. When there is a phase offset between the starting phase angle and the target phase angle—at least two of the on-phases and/or the off-phases of the light signal are extended or shortened by a different time difference value in each case after the actuation time such that the phase angle of the light signal with respect to the reference signal then corresponds to the predefined target phase angle, and/or—the light signal is started with a first off-phase () at the actuation time. The duration of the first off-phase corresponds to a time offset corresponding to the phase offset between the starting phase angle and the predefined target phase angle, with the result that an on-phase of the light signal following the first off-phase is at the target phase angle with respect to the reference signal.