Patent ID: 11872935
Assignee: BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A lighting device for an interior of a motor vehicle, the lighting device comprising:
a housing on which a light-transmissive cover plate is provided, and
an illuminant configured to produce light in an interior of the housing, the light emerging from the lighting device through the cover plate in order to illuminate the interior of the motor vehicle, wherein:
the cover plate has a faceted outer surface made of a plurality of plane facets;
the illuminant comprises one or more planar luminous elements in the interior of the housing, with a respective planar luminous element having two opposing side faces with a planar extent and an edge situated between the side faces, and
the illuminant is configured such that, during operation, light is emitted via both side faces of the respective planar luminous element and emerges from the lighting device via the cover plate.