Patent ID: 8226283

Claim:
Lighting device for an automobile with at least one light source adapted for emitting light and at least one bowl-shaped reflector adapted for reflecting at least a portion of the light emitted by the at least one light source at a reflection surface of the reflector, whereby the reflector is formed as a light-conductor structure adapted for reflecting light according to the principle of total internal reflection, whereby at least one first partial surface of the light-conductor structure facing toward an optical axis of the reflector is formed as a light-coupling surface and at least one second partial surface is formed as a light-decoupling surface, and whereby the reflection surface is formed on at least one partial surface of the light-conductor structure facing away from the optical axis, wherein at least one of the at least one light-coupling surface the at least one light-decoupling surface and the reflection surface of the reflector includes means for selectively deviating light passing through it or reflected from it so that the reflector forms a desired light distribution from light emitted from the at least one light source in cooperation with the at least one light-coupling surface, the at least one reflection surface, and the at least one light-decoupling surface, and wherein the at least one light source is located within the concavity of the bowl-shaped reflector.