Let’s be honest about it: the interior lights currently installed in our cars are pretty much useless, simply because finding something dropped on the floor at night is still impossible without ...

Toyoda Gosei has patented a vehicle interior lighting device that projects light from the instrument panel to the door trim, creating a decorative pattern that changes with the door’s opening angle.

SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Federal-Mogul Corporation (NASDAQ: FDML) has developed two innovations that make vehicle interior lighting systems slimmer, cooler, more efficient and ...

Dark shades like black or gray conceal dirt and stains. For occasional joyrides, lighter, fresher colors will show less wear. Lighter colors can also deflect heat in warmer climates. If resale is a ...

This circuit is much more modest, but certainly still worth the effort. It provides a high quality interior light delay. This is a feature that is included as standard with most modern cars, although ...

In-car ambient lighting is a relatively new idea in the auto industry. Although customers have for decades tried to bring their own unique touch on how the interior of their cars looks like at night, ...

Nissan Motor has been granted a patent for a vehicle interior lighting assembly. The assembly includes a roof structure, a headliner, and a light source. The headliner has a central opening that ...

People want customizable colored lights in their car's interior, right? Many top carmakers seem to think so. Nissan, Ford, GM, Porsche, and others offer ambient lighting settings that can be adjusted ...

If you know anything about building your own computer, you’ll know there’s an entire industry dedicated to integrating bright (but useless) customizable RGB (red, green, blue) LED lights into the ...

Automotive product announcements appear to be dominating the Electronica build-up, and Osram is no exception as it will be revealing details of its intelligent RGB LED for vehicle interior lighting.

An Apple Car patent granted today describes smart in-car lighting, able to intelligently determine what the occupants are likely to want or need at any given moment. One example cited in the patent ...