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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:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Christoph Rupp, Köln, DE;
Assignee:
Mannesmann VDO AG, Frankfurt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 7/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 7/04 ;
Abstract
A display unit, in particular in a vehicle, has a display (,.) which can be transilluminated by a transilluminating device (,) in a prescribed direction. Light launched from a light source (,) into an optical conductor (,) is aligned by a first optical element (,) and deflected into a prescribed direction by a second, displaceably arranged optical element (,). As a result, an image on the display (,) is to be detected exclusively from a viewing angle region in which the display (,) is transilluminated.