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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1995
Rudolf Andres, Sindelfingen, DE;
Armin Staehle, Nufringen, DE;
Reinhold Mickeler, Altdorf, DE;
Volker Petri, Aidlingen, DE;
Helmut Grickscheit, Sindelfingen, DE;
Benno Forstner, Weil der Stadt, DE;
Dieter Freerichs, Ostelsheim, DE;
Mercedes-Benz AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method and device for controlling vehicle interior lighting as a function of certain lighting-relevant states, in which the respective turning-on or turning-off process takes place with dimming. The dimming parameters, such as turning-on or turning-off dimming time or desired final brightness, are selected in advance as a function of the vehicle state that activated the control process, which permits a highly variable and situation-specific lighting control. The lighting control unit, depending on signals from a sensor group and according to a program stored in a program memory, controls a lighting device through a controllable switch.