Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle window assembly with integrated touch/proximity sensor
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Application No.: US16019637Application Date: 2018-06-27
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Publication No.: US10559153B2Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Inventor: Darin J. Snider , David K. Johnson
- Applicant: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.
- Applicant Address: US MI Holland
- Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.
- Current Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Holland
- Agency: Honigman LLP
- Main IPC: B60R5/00
- IPC: B60R5/00 ; G07C9/00 ; G06F3/044 ; B60R25/34

Abstract:
A window assembly for a vehicle includes a glass window panel having a non-light-transmitting layer established at a perimeter region thereof, and a sensing device disposed at the glass window panel at and behind the non-light-transmitting layer. The non-light-transmitting layer has at least one light-transmitting aperture or icon or alphanumeric character established thereat. The sensing device is disposed at the glass window panel such that a sensor and an illumination source of the sensing device are disposed at each of the light-transmitting apertures established at the non-light-transmitting layer. When the illumination sources are activated, the respective illumination source emits light through the respective light-transmitting aperture and does not emit light through the non-light-transmitting layer, whereby a person viewing the window panel from exterior of the vehicle views a plurality of icons or alphanumeric characters illuminated by respective ones of the illumination sources when the illumination source is/are activated.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190005755A1 VEHICLE WINDOW ASSEMBLY WITH INTEGRATED TOUCH/PROXIMITY SENSOR Public/Granted day:2019-01-03
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