Lighting device for a license plate of a motor vehicle with a movably mounted mirror device, as well as a method

摘要

The invention relates to a device, a lighting device (12) for a license plate (14) of a motor vehicle (10), with at least one lighting element (16) for generating a light (18), with a mirror device (20) which, when installed on the motor vehicle (10) in a first position (22) of the mirror device (20) is designed to guide the generated light (16) onto the license plate (14) of the motor vehicle (10) as license plate lighting, the mirror device (20) being movably mounted and is designed for this purpose, as a function of a control signal from an electronic computing device (24) of the lighting device (12) between the first position (22) and a second position (26) different from the first position (22) for generating apron lighting on the motor vehicle (10) ) to be pivoted. The invention also relates to a method.