DE2903547A1 - Vehicle boot rear light assembly - positioned along bottom edge of horizontally-hinged boot cover visible with boot open or closed - Google Patents

Abstract

The vehicle boot consists of a cover (3) hinged along its upper horizontal edge to the vehicle's bodywork and carrying rear lights (5-7) along its lower edge. The light assembly, comprising tail and direction-indicating lights is designed so that they are all clearly visible when the boot is both closed and fully open or indeed in any intermediate position. The lights consist of right-angled (or angled) light-emitting surfaces or of two sets of light-emitting surfaces at right angles or inclined to one another). When the boot is fully open one set of surfaces is invisible and when the boot is closed the other set is invisible.

Description

"Motor vehicle"

The invention relates to a motor vehicle with a Door or flap which can be pivoted about an axis arranged transversely to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle is.

Vehicles are conceivable in which the rear is for loading purposes can be fully opened in order to have the lowest possible access to the loading area of the graftfahrzeuyes to have. Such vehicles are so-called station wagons that both for passenger transport and, on a small scale, for freight transport to serve. With such vehicles or with vehicles that are purely personal vehicles are designed and in which the trunk lid is designed accordingly, it is conceivable that the taillights are arranged in the actual trunk lid are.

In the event of malfunctions or accidents, it is now common practice to use hazard warning lights to put into action, which are arranged, among other things, at the rear of the vehicle and warn the following traffic. Are such hazard warning lights in the trunk lid or in the rear door of the vehicle and this is open, these lights are no longer visible, and the invention is the task based on creating an arrangement with which it is ensured that the lights arranged in a trunk lid in all positions of the Trunk lid are visible from afar.

This object on which the invention is based is achieved by that the top of the rear lights (taillight, brake light, etc.) is in the locked position and aligned substantially vertically in the open position of the door or flap are, i.e.

So that both in the closed position of the door or the trunk lid as well as the rear lights when the door or trunk lid is open are visible.

The term "rear lights" includes the lights commonly used today, such as taillights, brake lights, reversing lights, if necessary

more lights and also the hazard warning lights, so that the direction lights are also included in the term "rear lights".

Several embodiments are conceivable, such as in the main claim The problem solved in the present patent application can be carried out constructively. The simplest constructive solution is to be seen in the fact that the rear light glasses are angular, so that both rear light glass surfaces with a single bulb can be illuminated. In such a case, those with the door open are or Flap visible rear lights when the door is closed or the flap is invisible and can be folded into appropriate shelters.

But it is also quite conceivable that the rear lights are provided twice An exemplary embodiment of the invention is described below with reference to the drawing explained.

In the drawing, 1 is generally the body of a vehicle, with 2 the rear bumper and with 3 a tailgate denotes, the Tailgate is articulated at 4 on the vehicle body.

On the lower edge of the flap 3 are the under the term "rear lights" combined lights arranged e in the illustrated embodiment are angularly formed, so that the glass part, which is denoted by 6 in the drawing is aligned vertically in the lowered and closed position of the flap 3 is or is aligned substantially vertically and thus during the readiness to drive of the car serves as a rear light, while the glass part 7 is in the open position the flap 3 is aligned vertically and thus, for example, in traffic accidents is visible from afar and emits a warning signal that can be seen from a long way off Vehicles are no longer covered in the way that was previously the case with the low-mounted ones Tail lights and hazard warning lights is the case.

If the flap 3 should still be able to be opened further, the corresponding one would have to be Angular size between the panes 6 and 7 can be changed or the glass of the The rear lights are U-shaped and thus also on the one in the drawing not visible lower edge arranged, so that with vertically aligned, open Then flap this vertically aligned glass top is visible.

This U-shaped design of the rear light glasses is called "Angular" is understood and included in claim 2 of the claims.

Claims (4)

"Motor vehicle" claims: Motor vehicle with arranged at the rear Door or flap which can be pivoted about an axis arranged transversely to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle is characterized in that the top (6, 7) of the rear lights (5) (rear light, Brake light etc.) in the closed position and in the open position of the door or Flap (3) is aligned essentially vertically. 2. Motor vehicle according to claim 1, characterized in that the Taillight glasses are formed angularly. 3. Motor vehicle according to claim 1, characterized in that the Rear lights (5) are provided twice. 4. Motor vehicle according to claim 1 to 3, characterized in that the rear lights (5) that are visible when the door or flap (3) is open and when the rear lights are closed Door or flap are arranged invisibly.