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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Axel Willikens, Waiblingen, DE;
Assignee:
Daimler-Benz AG, , DE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307 108 ; 340431 ; 315 77 ; 315 82 ;
Abstract
A device for controllably switching a rear fog lamp on a vehicle utilizes a switch located in the current path to sense the current flow of a rear fog lamp of a trailer attached to the vehicle. In order to prevent disturbing reflections of the light of a vehicle rear fog lamp of the trailer into the vehicle interior via a front wall of the trailer, during the connection of a trailer rear fog lamp to the vehicle, the vehicle rear fog lamp is switched off automatically by means of the device, with the trailer rear fog lamp remaining intact.