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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2016
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MA (US);
Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US);
James J. Surman, Clinton Township, MI (US);
Paul Kenneth Dellock, Northville, MI (US);
Cornel Lewis Gardner, Romulus, MI (US);
Ali Ammar, Dearborn, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle wheel illumination assembly includes a light source located on the body of a vehicle near the wheel well and oriented to direct light onto a wheel assembly having a tire. A tire pressure indicator detects tire pressure of the tire. The light source illuminates the wheel assembly with a desired color to indicate a tire pressure status based on the detected tire pressure. A photoluminescent material is located on the wheel assembly and configured to luminesce in response to excitation by the light assembly.