US 12,434,623 B2
Apparatus with light fixture
Yifu Xiao, Costa Mesa, CA (US); Shammika Ashan Wickramasinghe, Banbury (GB); Simon Baker, Basingstoke (GB); Vijay Jayaraman, Irvine, CA (US); Srikanth Amruthur, Lake Forest, CA (US); Erik Robert Glaser, San Mateo, CA (US); Diana Betzabe Cuellar Alcala, Irvine, CA (US); and Jonathan James Szczupak, Laguna Niguel, CA (US)
Assigned to Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
Filed by Rivian IP Holdings, LLC, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 24, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/752,179.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/553,325, filed on Feb. 14, 2024.
Prior Publication US 2025/0256645 A1, Aug. 14, 2025
Int. Cl. B60Q 1/50 (2006.01); B60L 53/16 (2019.01); B60L 53/60 (2019.01); B60Q 1/26 (2006.01)
CPC B60Q 1/543 (2022.05) [B60L 53/16 (2019.02); B60L 53/60 (2019.02); B60Q 1/2607 (2013.01); B60L 2250/16 (2013.01); B60L 2260/20 (2013.01); B60Q 2900/30 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a light fixture to dispose within a central portion of a vehicle, the central portion of the vehicle (i) positioned between a first light source of the vehicle and a second light source of the vehicle and (ii) at least partially separate from a lateral portion of the vehicle that includes the first light source and the second light source, the light fixture including a first segment, disposed within the central portion, having a third light source and a second segment, disposed within the central portion, having a fourth light source;
the first segment configured to produce light with a first pattern via the third light source;
the second segment configured to produce light with a second pattern via the fourth light source;
the first pattern and the second pattern configured to indicate a vehicle status of the vehicle that includes a state of charge of one or more batteries of the vehicle and a charging status of the one or more batteries;
the light having the first pattern which (i) originates, at a first point in time, at a first portion of the first segment and (ii) terminates, at a second point in time, at a second portion of the first segment to indicate the charging status of the one or more batteries; and
the light having the second pattern to illuminate, from the first point in time to the second point in time, across the second segment to indicate the state of charge of the one or more batteries.