US 12,227,124 B2
Method for operating a lighting device of a motor vehicle
Annette Helmling, Dornstadt (DE); Norbert Helmling, Bollingen (DE); and Holger Hoechsmann, Holzheim (DE)
Assigned to Daimler Truck AG, Leinfelden-Echterdingen (DE)
Appl. No. 18/261,970
Filed by Daimler Truck AG, Leinfelden-Echterdingen (DE)
PCT Filed Nov. 16, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/081859
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 18, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/156934, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 28, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 000 226.1 (DE), filed on Jan. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0075868 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. B60Q 1/12 (2006.01); B60Q 1/20 (2006.01)
CPC B60Q 1/12 (2013.01) [B60Q 1/20 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/122 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/322 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a lighting device (5) of a motor vehicle (1), wherein a front left outer region (6) and a front right outer region (7) of the motor vehicle (1) can be lit with the lighting device (5), comprising the steps of:
lighting the front left outer region (6) and additionally the front right outer region (7) when the motor vehicle (1) is traversing a bend to the left; and/or
lighting the front right outer region (7) and additionally the front left outer region (6) when the motor vehicle (1) is traversing a bend to the right;
wherein the front left outer region (6) is lit when traversing the bend to the left when a first left steering angle (20) associated with the traversing of the bend to the left is exceeded and wherein when traversing the bend to the left the front right outer region (7) is lit when a second left steering angle (21) exceeding the first left steering angle (20) is exceeded.