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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. 20, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Vincent Thominet, Echandens, CH;
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21S 8/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F21S 8/10 ;
Abstract
An illumination device for a vehicle has a plurality of semiconductor sources distributed in a matrix, at least one optical active element which is located in a path of rays of a light emitted by the semiconductor sources, the semiconductor sources are arranged in partial quantities in different defined partial regions of the matrix and the partial quantities of the semiconductor sources are operatable independently from one another.