A system for disinfecting an autonomous vehicle includes a light assembly having LEDs configured to emit UVC light into a passenger compartment of the autonomous vehicle. The light assembly includes a heat sink to dissipate heat generated by the LEDs. In examples, the heat sink is disposed in the path of forced air associated with a climate control system of the vehicle. The climate control system may be controlled based on a temperature proximate the LEDs and/or the heat sink. In some examples, the light assembly is integrated into the ceiling of the vehicle and can further include visible light emitters and/or other features.

An air duct system for an aircraft provides passengers with light, data, electrical power, and sanitized air. The air duct system includes an air duct having a main body and a visible light source configured to generate visible light, where the visible light is modulated by one or more controllers based on a visible light communication protocol. The air duct system simultaneously achieves four functions for improving passengers' flying experience. First, a portion of the visible light transmitted by the air duct illuminates the interior cabin of the aircraft. Second, by modulating the visible light, the air duct system transmits and distributes data that is received by the passengers' electronic devices. Third, a portion of the visible light is converted into electrical power at each passenger seat to power passengers' electronic devices. Fourth, in embodiments, the visible light is emitted at a germicidal wavelength spectrum to create sanitized air.

An apparatus is provided for distributing indirect lighting and airflow to an individual passenger in a motor vehicle. That apparatus includes a vent body having an air inlet and an air outlet. An air valve is carried on the vent body. The air valve is displaceable between an open position and a closed position. A flexible air guide carried on the vent body is adapted to direct air from the air outlet toward the individual passenger.

An illumination device is to be mounted on a ceiling of an interior of a vehicle, and the illumination device includes a light source that emits light to illuminate the interior, a light guide that receives the light emitted from the light source and transmits the received light, a first flow path that, in a state in which the illumination device is mounted on the ceiling, extends so as to intersect with an up and down direction of the vehicle and is located at the same position as at least one of the light source or the light guide in the up and down direction, and an air blower that produces an airflow that, having been sucked into the illumination device, travels through the first flow path and is blown out of the illumination device after having traveled through the first flow path.

A vehicle includes a plurality of areas, each of the plurality of areas includes at least one light emitting apparatus and at least one sensor of a first type, the plurality of areas include a first area, the first area includes a first light emitting apparatus and a first sensor, and a type of the first sensor is the first type. A light system control method includes: obtaining a first signal collected by the first sensor; and controlling, based on the first signal, the first light emitting apparatus to work.

There is provided a vehicle interior environment adjustment device including: a first memory; and a first processor connected to the first memory, wherein the first processor: acquires posted information, posted by a specific user, from a management server configured to manage a social networking service (SNS), determines a mode of a vehicle interior environment of a vehicle in which the specific user rides, from a characteristic of the specific user based on the acquired posted information, and outputs a control signal according to the determined mode.

A method for feedback of a temperature setting of an air-conditioning device involves adjusting a light color of at least one lighting element for the display of a set temperature. The adjusted light color corresponds to a temperature setting of an airflow zone in a motor vehicle.

A method for illuminating a passenger compartment of a vehicle with lighting devices which each contain one or more diffuse and/or indirect light sources. The intensity and color of the light emitted by the light sources being set automatically as a function of specific operating parameters which are influenced by a vehicle occupant. The lighting devices which are respectively spatially assigned to an area of the passenger compartment of the vehicle in which there is a vehicle component with an operating parameter which can be set separately by the driver and which can act on a general operating mode selected by the driver, are actuated in such a way that their intensity and color indicate to the driver whether the current setting of the separately settable operating parameter has a positive or negative effect on the general operating mode selected by the driver.

A lighting system using fluid for a vehicle includes: a first flow path configured in an interior part of the vehicle, and receiving fluid stored in the vehicle and guiding a flow of fluid; a lighting part disposed inside the vehicle to radiate light toward the first flow path; and a controller for receiving state information of the vehicle, and providing the state information of the vehicle to a passenger by controlling the flow of fluid flowing through the first flow path or the lighting part according to the state information.

An air-guiding arrangement for an air vent, includes an air-guiding element and an operating element which is movable relative to the air-guiding element and has a manually actuatable operating portion arranged on a front side of the air-guiding element, a light source being arranged in the operating portion of the operating element, at least one electrical conductor being provided which is connected, on the one hand, to the light source and can be connected, on the other hand, to an electrical supply source, and, for electrical connection between the light source and the at least one electrical conductor, at least one elastic electrical connecting element being provided which, on the one hand, is held fixedly on the air-guiding element and, on the other hand, is held fixedly on the operating element, and which deforms elastically during a relative movement between the air-guiding element and operating element.