Vehicle lighting systems with side lights

Details Vehicle lighting systems with side lights Vehicle lighting systems with side lights

1996-12-12

1998-06-23

Lazarus, Ira S.

Illumination

Vehicle steering mechanism or element moves pivoted lamp or...

Tie rod element controlled

362 80, 315 82, 315 83, B60Q 100, B60Q 102

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057695245

ABSTRACT:
A lighting system for a vehicle including a pair of supplemental side lights located adjacent to the front and sides of a vehicle beneath the main headlights thereof, the side lights being angled to project the central rays of their beams outwardly from the central ray of the beams of the main headlights; a parabolic reflector operatively associated with each side light; and a battery with electrical components coupling the main headlights and the side lights, the electrical components including a common single pole single throw-type switch directly coupled with the main headlight and the side lights for ensuring that the side lights are only activated when the headlights are activated, a common single pole triple throw-type turn switch directly coupled to the side lights for indicating a left turn and a right turn by actuating one side light concurrently to the exclusion of the other side light, a single common single pole single throw-type dimmer switch directly coupled to the turn switch for increasing and decreasing the intensity of the main headlights and the side lights concurrently, and a single pole triple throw-type mode switch for allowing the side lights to be operated in a first mode wherein the side lights are actuated by the turn switch, a second mode wherein the side lights are both actuated concurrently independent of the turn switch, and a third mode wherein both side lights are precluded from actuation independent of the remaining electrical components, the electrical components further comprising an emergency light switch adapted to actuate a plurality of conventional emergency lights in addition to allowing automatic actuation of both side lights.

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