Patent ID: 11878626
Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  F

Claim 0:
1. An illumination module for illuminating a region of a vehicle component, wherein the illumination module comprises:
a light source support, in the form of a printed circuit board, having at least one light source;
a housing in which the light source support having the at least one light source is received at least regionally, wherein the housing comprises at least one light outlet region, via which light emitted by the at least one light source is decoupled from the housing; and
a light diffuser optically coupled or couplable to the light outlet region of the housing,
wherein
the at least one light source comprises a first light source;
the light diffuser comprises a first light outlet region, via which light is decoupled for direct illumination or highlighting of the region of the vehicle component and which comprises a second light outlet region, spatially separated from the first light outlet region, via which signal light is decoupled, for indicating a state or for indicating a situation;
wherein the first light outlet region is defined in part by a first external surface portion of the light diffuser that faces in a first direction away from the housing, and the second light outlet region is defined in part by a second external surface portion of the light diffuser that faces in a second direction to one side of the housing, the second external surface portion angularly intersecting the first external surface portion;
wherein a first portion of light emitted by the first light source is coupled directly to the first light outlet region and a second portion of light emitted by the first light source is coupled directly to the second light outlet region;
wherein the at least one light source further comprises a second light source and a third light source, wherein the first, second and third light sources have a common main radiating direction, and wherein a segmentation is associated with the light source support or the light diffuser such that each of the first light source, the second light source and the third light source decouple light from different portions of the light diffuser.