在海报 Ford Focus RS Club forum-and首先报道 Jalopnik—has discovered something mighty interesting in the form of a patent application filed on June 25: Ford may be working on vehicle body panels and elements that light up.
The way it would appear to work is that panels would be stratified either as separate pieces or via injection molding, with inner and outers sandwiching a layer that, in the words of the application, would be “configured to luminesce in response to light excitation.” The excitement would come in the form of one or more lighting elements (likely LED) 位于或围绕发光层的周边. This layer could incorporate individual excitable particles either alone or en masse, or consist of an entire substrate.
Ford explains in the patent that it envisions such tech could be used for “decorative and/or functional lighting,” which we take to mean it could conceivably be used for accent lamps in bumpers, 中央高置刹车灯, or decorative ambient lighting that, as shown in the figure above (别. 24), wraps around the cockpit of an open convertible. Or to light up full panels in different colors, VW Golf Harlequin–style. 或拼出“CAMEROS ARE 4 CHUMPZ“整个后保险杠.
不管是什么技术是打算做, 没有疑问，就需要这样的事情达到生产之前中美要清除一些监管障碍. vehicle regs are actually fairly hostile toward new lighting types, as shown by the fact that we can’t get the matrix LED 和 laser headlights 现在整个蔓延欧洲汽车制造商“的阵容，但品牌和风格可能性诱人. For more, you can read the patent application for yourself 就在这里.
