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Patent No.:

US 8547017 B1

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Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013

Filed:

May. 13, 2011
Applicants:

Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US);

Cornel Lewis Gardner, Romulus, MI (US);

Jeffrey Singer, Canton, MI (US);

Megan Lovejoy, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US);

Cornel Lewis Gardner, Romulus, MI (US);

Jeffrey Singer, Canton, MI (US);

Megan Lovejoy, Dearborn, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); B60Q 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A vehicle dome and reading light assembly for a vehicle includes a lighting device assembled to the interior of the vehicle and capable of generating plural light colors. A first switch is actuatable to cause the lighting device to generate a first color light and a first light intensity to serve as a dome lamp. A second switch is actuatable to cause the lighting device to generate a second color light at a second light intensity to serve as a map or reading lamp.


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