Patents Examined by Robert J May
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Patent number: 11732857Abstract: Lighting device of a motor vehicle headlamp comprising a projection optics system (1) and a light source unit (2), wherein the light source unit comprises a surface (20), wherein the light source unit (2) can generate a lighting pattern on the surface (20), wherein the lighting pattern which can be generated on the surface (20) can be projected in front of the lighting device in the form of a light distribution by means of the projection optics system (1), wherein the light source unit (2) comprises a support structure (3), wherein the support structure (3) has an opening (30), wherein the opening (30) is arranged and designed to match the surface (20) and the lighting pattern can be generated at least on one side (201) of the surface (20) facing the projection optics system (1), wherein the projection optics system (1) has guiding elements (10) and the support structure (3) has elongated guides (31) corresponding to the guiding elements (10), wherein the guiding elements (10) are arranged in such a way thatType: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: ZKW Group GmbHInventors: Stefan Mitterlehner, Günter Karlinger
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Patent number: 11725793Abstract: A lens for forming a beam pattern in a low-beam zone III, a vehicle illuminator, and an automobile. The lens for forming the beam pattern in the low-beam zone III comprises a lens main body. A low-beam zone III formation structure is provided at or integrally formed with a light-entering surface of the lens main body. The low-beam zone III formation structure comprises multiple protrusions protruding from the light-entering surface and is used to diffuse light. The lens for forming the beam pattern in the low-beam zone III has a simple structure, a small volume and high optical efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: HASCO VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Zhiping Qiu, He Zhu, Cong Li, Dapan Zhang, Wenhui Sang
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Patent number: 11724639Abstract: An electronic device may include: a camera module; a plurality of light source devices; and a processor operatively coupled to the camera module and the plurality of light source devices. The processor may detect a forward vehicle based on an image acquired through the camera module while a vehicle travels, identify a distance between the vehicle and the forward vehicle, and adjust light distribution patterns of the plurality of light source devices based on the identified distance.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jun Young Sung
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Patent number: 11724637Abstract: An opening and closing body control device is applied to a vehicle that includes a vehicle body having an opening, an opening and closing body configured to open and close the opening, a drive unit configured to operate the opening and closing body, and a detection device configured to detect a gesture operation of a user. The opening and closing body control device includes: a position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of a portable device carried by the user by wireless communication; an operation determination unit configured to determine whether the gesture operation is executed in a situation where the portable device is present in a detection area of the detection device; and an opening and closing body control unit configured to operate the opening and closing body based on a content of the gesture operation when it is determined that the user executes the gesture operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Nagase, Takuya Tamura
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Patent number: 11725809Abstract: A lighting device (e.g., a controllable light-emitting diode illumination device) may have a light-generation module that may be assembled and calibrated prior to the light-generation module being installed in a finished good. The light-generation module may include an emitter module having at least one emitter mounted to a substrate and configured to emit light. The light-generation module may include a first printed circuit board on which the emitter module may be mounted and a second printed circuit board on which those circuits that are essential for powering the emitter module may be mounted. The light-generation module may include a heat sink located between the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board. The emitter module may be thermally-coupled to the heat sink through the substrate and the first printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Ryan M. Bocock, Robert Bollinger, Jr., Richard S. Camden, Kevin L. Gascho, Robert C. Newman, Jr., Peter W. Ogden, Jr.
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Patent number: 11718219Abstract: Disclosed is a lamp control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, which includes information acquirer that acquires information on a sensor of a vehicle and acquires distance information between the sensor and a ground from the sensor, and a controller that calculates a slope of the vehicle based on the information on the sensor and the distance information between the sensor and the ground and generates a control signal for controlling a lamp of the vehicle based on the calculated slope of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Myeong Je Kim
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Patent number: 11713861Abstract: An illuminating device for vehicles, including a first light unit, which contains a first light source having a number of first light pixels for generating a first partial light distribution including a second light unit, which contains a second light source having a number of second light pixels for generating a second partial light distribution. The second light pixels are arranged in a boundary region of the second light source and are controllable as a group in such a way that a number of the second light pixels controlled as a group in the boundary region of the second light source per unit of surface area increases from a first end of the boundary region in the direction of a second end of the boundary region.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Christian Huester, Boris Kubitza, Martin Pluempe, Udo Venker, Carsten Wilks
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Patent number: 11708953Abstract: The present disclosure relates to vehicle lighting devices, and discloses a headlight optical element. The headlight optical element includes a light incident portion, a light transmitting portion and a light emergent portion which are connected in sequence, wherein the light incident portion includes a plurality of light incident surfaces connected sequentially in a left-right direction; the light incident surfaces are curved surfaces protruding backwards in the optical axis direction; and light emergent surfaces are curved surfaces protruding forwards in the optical axis direction. In addition, the present disclosure further discloses a headlight module, a vehicle headlight and a vehicle. The headlight optical element provided by the present disclosure is small in size, high in optical precision, accurate in light pattern, convenient to mount and low in cost.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: HASCO VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dapan Zhang, Zhiping Qiu, He Zhu, Wenhui Sang
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Patent number: 11701968Abstract: A vehicle interior component configured to provide a user interface for vehicle systems is disclosed. The component may provide a user interface for a vehicle occupant. The component may comprise a composite structure to provide the user interface comprising a cover providing an exterior surface, a sensor, light panel, absorber panel and/or decorative material. The light panel may provide output visible at the exterior surface; the decorative layer and/or absorber panel may provide a visual effect. The cover may comprise a light-transmissive cover; illumination from a display may comprise visible light transmitted through a functional layer and through an at least partially translucent cover. The component may comprise a light panel to provide output visible at the cover exterior surface. A method of operating the user interface provided by the composite structure is also disclosed. The user interface may be coupled to a control system.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Shanghai Yanfeng Jinqiao Automotive Trim Systems Co. Ltd.Inventors: Yanning Zhao, Hannes Rene Boehm, Steffen Proemmel, Iris Wegner, Amit Mukund Patankar, Danny Brian Larsen
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Patent number: 11701997Abstract: A method for eliminating glare from objects using a headlamp system of a motor vehicle involves determining the positions of at least two objects reflecting from a headlamp of the headlamp system in a camera image produced by a camera of the headlamp system pointing at the area in front of the motor vehicle. The light emitted by the headlamp is dimmed in sections and the area in front is illuminated in such a way that the at least two objects and one region of the area in front, which is represented in the camera image by a connecting image section that connects the at least two objects to one another, are illuminated with reduced light intensity, so that less light is reflected back.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AGInventor: Carsten Gut
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Patent number: 11692318Abstract: A construction machine in the form of a road paver or feeder vehicle includes a chassis and a hopper, wherein at least one lighting arrangement is mounted on the chassis. The lighting arrangement comprises at least one light source, and the lighting arrangement is configured to illuminate an area in front of the construction machine in the direction of travel. The construction machine further has an object detection system for detecting an object located in front of the construction machine in the direction of travel, and the illumination emitted by the lighting arrangement can be changed as a function of the detection of an object by means of the object detection system.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventor: Bernhard Erdtmann
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Patent number: 11691564Abstract: A motor vehicle includes an environment illuminating device for emitting light toward the ground in the environment of the motor vehicle. The environment illuminating device includes one or more luminous modules, each of which is configured to generate a light distribution on the ground. A respective luminous module includes an image generator configured to generate light radiation from light from an illuminant, the light radiation containing two-dimensional image information concerning, firstly, a symbol representation and, secondly, a light pattern and/or a homogeneous area with a substantially constant luminance. Furthermore, the respective luminous module includes an optical device, on which the light radiation from the image generator is incident.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Victor Orlinskiy
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Patent number: 11679710Abstract: A device for adjusting a supporting frame of a headlight of a motor vehicle, comprising a first coupling element, a second coupling element, and a guide element, wherein the second coupling element is pivotable relative to the first coupling element, wherein the first coupling element has a receiving region for a spherical segment-shaped region of the second coupling element, wherein the region is secured in a positive manner in the receiving region, wherein the region is secured to the supporting frame, wherein the first coupling element is guided in the guide element so as to be displaceable in at least one first direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Sebastian Scholz, Ralf Seiger
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Patent number: 11673670Abstract: An aircraft passenger reading light comprises at least one reading light source, which is arranged for emitting visible light in a reading light emission direction; and at least one infrared light source, which is arranged for emitting infrared light in an infrared light emission direction. The infrared light emission direction is inclined with respect to the reading light emission direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Anil Kumar Jha, Jens Leuschner
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Patent number: 11668447Abstract: A lamp for an automobile includes a micro lens array (MLA) module that includes an entrance lens array including entrance lenses, an exit lens array including exit lenses, and a shield unit including shields provided between the entrance lens array and the exit lens array. An optical axis of the exit lens, provided in front of at least a portion of the plurality of entrance lenses to face the entrance lens, is spaced apart from an optical axis of the entrance lens in the downward direction and one side direction. A cut-off line region provided on an upper edge of the shield, provided in front of at least a portion of the plurality of entrance lenses to face the entrance lens, is spaced apart from an optical axis of the entrance lens in the downward direction and one side direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hyun Soo Lee
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Patent number: 11667232Abstract: A rotation adjustment mechanism includes a rotation target module supported by a fixation member to be freely rotatable around a first rotary shaft and an adjustment unit supported by the fixation member and including a slider movable along a slide axis pointing in a direction orthogonal to the first rotary shaft. The adjustment unit is supported to be freely rotatable around a second rotary shaft parallel to the first rotary shaft and provided on the fixation member. The rotation target module includes a connection groove. The fixation member includes a cam member. The cam member has a guide surface in an arc-like shape that maintains constant a rotation angle of a contact point where the connection groove and a projection part of the slider contact each other around the first rotary shaft with respect to a unit movement amount of the slider in a direction parallel to the slide axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Ritsuya Oshima, Takeshi Inatani, Muneharu Kuwata
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Patent number: 11662077Abstract: Illumination devices with improved color mixing optics are disclosed herein for mixing the colors produced by a multi-colored LED emitter module to produce uniform color throughout the entire beam angle of the output light beam, along with smoother edges and improved center beam intensity. Embodiments disclosed herein include a unique arrangement of multi-color LEDs within an emitter module, a unique exit lens with different patterns of lenslets on opposing sides of the lens, and other associated optical features that thoroughly mix the different color components, and as such, provide uniform color across the output beam exiting the illumination device. Additional embodiments disclosed herein include a unique arrangement of photodetectors within the primary optics structure of the LED emitter module that ensure the optical feedback system properly measures the light produced by all similarly colored emission LEDs.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Fangxu Dong, Horace C. Ho, David J. Knapp
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Patent number: 11662074Abstract: A vehicle lamp may include a plurality of optical modules and a mixing lens for mixing light emitted from each optical module in front of the plurality of optical modules, thereby freely designing an optical system without restrictions according to a shape of a lamp, and at the same time, realizing a uniform light emitting image in a form of a surface light source.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Min Ji Jin
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Patent number: 11654819Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle and a vehicle including the lamp. One aspect of the present disclosure provides a lamp for a vehicle, the lamp including a first light source configured to emit light, a light guide unit having one side facing the first light source and configured such that the light emitted from the first light source enters the light guide unit, a rotary shaft having one side fixedly coupled to the light guide unit, and a power supply unit configured to provide power for rotating the rotary shaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Seok Huyn Kim
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Patent number: 11649952Abstract: A combination for illuminating the interior of a building comprises a fixture and a retrofit kit. The fixture has a base attached to a building ceiling, the fixture having a first tombstone, and a second tombstone. The first and second tombstones are configured to receive between them a fluorescent light tube. The retrofit kit is connected to the base. The retrofit kit includes a light panel, the light panel having a first side facing the fixture and an opposite second side. The light panel resides between the first tombstone and the second tombstone, and the fixture resides above the light panel. The combination is devoid of a fluorescent light tube. The base and the light panel define between them a raceway. A light emitting diode is disposed on the second side of the light panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: POWER CONCEPTS, LLCInventors: Bryan Beatenbough, Ryan Haley