Patents by Inventor Bettina REISINGER

Bettina REISINGER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11774058
    Abstract: An illumination device (10) for a motor vehicle headlight, wherein the illumination device (10) comprises: a light source (50) for irradiating a light beam in a first direction of radiation (X1), a first deflection device (100) configured to deflect the light beam in a second direction of radiation (X2), and a second deflection device (200) for deflecting the light beam deflected by the first deflection device (100) in a third direction of radiation (X3) and for producing a light distribution in front of the illumination device (10), wherein the illumination device comprises at least one expanding optic (300) with a focus (F1), wherein said expanding optic (300) is associated with the at least one light source (50) and is configured to expand the light beam emitted by the light source (50) in the direction of the first direction of radiation (X1), wherein the at least one light source (50) is arranged in the direction of the first direction of radiation (X1) between the at least one expanding optic (300)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Bettina Reisinger, Markus Danner, Josef Plank, Christian Knobloch, Jakob Pühringer, Josef Pürstinger
  • Patent number: 11761604
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlamp system with a first and a second motor vehicle headlamp, wherein each motor vehicle headlamp comprises a first and a second light module, which first light module comprises light pixels, and is arranged to generate a first light distribution (100), and wherein the second light module comprises light pixels, and is arranged to generate a second light distribution (200), wherein each light distribution (100, 200) is formed from several pixel light segments (101, 201), wherein a pixel light segment (101, 201) corresponds to a light pixel and is able to be produced through this, wherein each light distribution (100, 200) is arranged to generate a first pixel light segment group (110, 210) with a first column width (110a, 210a), to generate a second pixel light segment group (120, 220) with a second column width (120a, 220a), which corresponds to ½ of the first column width (110a, 210a), to generate a third pixel light segment group (130, 230) with a third column width (130a, 230a), wh
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Reza Larimian, Stefan Miedler, Thomas Reiter, Alexander Hacker, Christian Jackl, Bettina Reisinger, Christian Bemmer
  • Publication number: 20230204181
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlamp system with a first and a second motor vehicle headlamp, wherein each motor vehicle headlamp comprises a first and a second light module, which first light module comprises light pixels, and is arranged to generate a first light distribution (100), and wherein the second light module comprises light pixels, and is arranged to generate a second light distribution (200), wherein each light distribution (100, 200) is formed from several pixel light segments (101, 201), wherein a pixel light segment (101, 201) corresponds to a light pixel and is able to be produced through this, wherein each light distribution (100, 200) is arranged to generate a first pixel light segment group (110, 210) with a first column width (110a, 210a), to generate a second pixel light segment group (120, 220) with a second column width (120a, 220a), which corresponds to ½ of the first column width (110a, 210a), to generate a third pixel light segment group (130, 230) with a third column width (130a, 230a), wh
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Reza LARIMIAN, Stefan MIEDLER, Thomas REITER, Alexander HACKER, Christian JACKL, Bettina REISINGER, Christian BEMMER
  • Patent number: 11560996
    Abstract: Light module system, comprising a first light module and a second light module, wherein the first light module can be controlled in dependence on the second light module, wherein the first light module is configured as a non-high-resolution light module, and is set up to generate a light distribution of a first type (1, 10) in a region in front of the light module system, wherein the light distribution of the first type (1, 10) can be dimmed, the second light module is configured as a high-resolution light module, wherein a minimum brightness is associated with a sector (4) of the light distribution of the first type, and the second light module is set up to generate at least one ground-projection light distribution (3) in an operating mode, wherein the at least one ground-projection light distribution (3) is a visual presentation of information, and thereby to cause the first light module to, at least partially, dim the light distribution of the first type, and to illuminate the sector (4) of the light distr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Plank, Thomas Schlinger, Andreas Moser, Bettina Reisinger
  • Patent number: 11530793
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device (1) for a motor vehicle headlight for generating a light pattern (LV), particularly an adaptive light pattern, e.g. an adaptive dipped headlight and main beam light pattern, or a part of a light pattern of this kind, wherein the lighting device comprises a number N of preferably identical projection modules (10, 20), where N=2, 3, 4 or greater than 4, each of the projection modules (10, 20) being designed to generate a segment light pattern (LV10, LV20). The projection modules (10, 20) are arranged with respect to one another in such a manner than, proceeding from a first projection module (10), known as the starting projection module (10), which generates what is called the starting segment light pattern (LV10), the segment light patterns (LV20; LV20, LV30) of the further projection modules (20) are displaced laterally in a, particularly in a common, horizontal direction, with the extent of the displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Bettina Reisinger, Nina Brauner, Marina Fischer, Matthäus Artmann, Lukas Taudt, Stefan Miedler, Thomas Reiter
  • Publication number: 20220373150
    Abstract: An illumination device (10) for a motor vehicle headlight, wherein the illumination device (10) comprises: a light source (50) for irradiating a light beam in a first direction of radiation (X1), a first deflection device (100) configured to deflect the light beam in a second direction of radiation (X2), and a second deflection device (200) for deflecting the light beam deflected by the first deflection device (100) in a third direction of radiation (X3) and for producing a light distribution in front of the illumination device (10), wherein the illumination device comprises at least one expanding optic (300) with a focus (F1), wherein said expanding optic (300) is associated with the at least one light source (50) and is configured to expand the light beam emitted by the light source (50) in the direction of the first direction of radiation (X1), wherein the at least one light source (50) is arranged in the direction of the first direction of radiation (X1) between the at least one expanding optic (300)
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Bettina Reisinger, Markus Danner, Josef Plank, Christian Knobloch, Jakob Pühringer, Josef Pürstinger
  • Patent number: 11299091
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle headlamp (1) comprising; a high-resolution lighting apparatus (2) for projecting various light distributions onto a roadway area (4) positioned in front of a vehicle (3); an environmental detection device (5) for detecting at least one parking space (6) located in the environment surrounding the vehicle (3); and a control device (7) for dynamically controlling the lighting apparatus (2); wherein the environmental detection device (5) is designed to issue information corresponding to a detected parking space (6) to the control device (7), wherein the control device (7) is designed, in case the environmental detection device (5) detects a parking space (6), to control the lighting apparatus (2), under consideration of at least the information issued by the environmental detection device (5) related to the parking space (6), in such a manner that the lighting apparatus (2) at least projects a definable ground projection (8), which at least represents the vehicle length, onto th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Hartmann, Markus Reinprecht, Josef Pürstinger, Bettina Reisinger, Clemens Hauer, Matthias Mayer, Christian Kalousek, Martin Lahmer
  • Publication number: 20220074567
    Abstract: Light module system, comprising a first light module and a second light module, wherein the first light module can be controlled in dependence on the second light module, wherein the first light module is configured as a non-high-resolution light module, and is set up to generate a light distribution of a first type (1, 10) in a region in front of the light module system, wherein the light distribution of the first type (1, 10) can be dimmed, the second light module is configured as a high-resolution light module, wherein a minimum brightness is associated with a sector (4) of the light distribution of the first type, and the second light module is set up to generate at least one ground-projection light distribution (3) in an operating mode, wherein the at least one ground-projection light distribution (3) is a visual presentation of information, and thereby to cause the first light module to, at least partially, dim the light distribution of the first type, and to illuminate the sector (4) of the light distr
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Josef Plank, Thomas Schlinger, Andreas Moser, Bettina Reisinger
  • Publication number: 20220057065
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device (1) for a motor vehicle headlight for generating a light pattern (LV), particularly an adaptive light pattern, e.g. an adaptive dipped headlight and main beam light pattern, or a part of a light pattern of this kind, wherein the lighting device comprises a number N of preferably identical projection modules (10, 20), where N=2, 3, 4 or greater than 4, each of the projection modules (10, 20) being designed to generate a segment light pattern (LV10, LV20). The projection modules (10, 20) are arranged with respect to one another in such a manner than, proceeding from a first projection module (10), known as the starting projection module (10), which generates what is called the starting segment light pattern (LV10), the segment light patterns (LV20; LV20, LV30) of the further projection modules (20) are displaced laterally in a, particularly in a common, horizontal direction, with the extent of the displacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Bettina Reisinger, Nina Brauner, Marina Fischer, Matthäus Artmann, Lukas Taudt, Stefan Miedler, Thomas Reiter
  • Publication number: 20200172005
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle headlamp (1) comprising: a high-resolution lighting apparatus (2) for projecting various light distributions onto a roadway area (4) positioned in front of a vehicle (3); an environmental detection device (5) for detecting at least one parking space (6) located in the environment surrounding the vehicle (3); and a control device (7) for dynamically controlling the lighting apparatus (2); wherein the environmental detection device (5) is designed to issue information corresponding to a detected parking space (6) to the control device (7), wherein the control device (7) is designed, in case the environmental detection device (5) detects a parking space (6), to control the lighting apparatus (2), under consideration of at least the information issued by the environmental detection device (5) related to the parking space (6), in such a manner that the lighting apparatus (2) at least projects a definable ground projection (8), which at least represents the vehicle length, ont
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Peter HARTMANN, Markus REINPRECHT, Josef PÜRSTINGER, Bettina REISINGER, Clemens HAUER, Matthias MAYER, Christian KALOUSEK, Martin LAHMER
  • Patent number: 10670220
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a laser illumination device for a motor vehicle headlight, wherein the laser illumination device comprises two or more adjustable laser light sources (11 to 18), wherein the number of laser light sources is designated as N, and each laser light source generates a laser beam (11p to 18p) and at least one optical attachment (21 to 28) is arranged downstream of each laser light source and at least one microscanner (51, 52) is assigned, and each microscanner is arranged to guide two or more laser beams onto at least one light conversion means (60), wherein on the at least one light conversion means a luminous image is produced, and an imaging system (PS) is associated with the at least one light conversion means in order to project the luminous image as a light image onto the road, wherein the method includes the following steps: dividing at least a part of the luminous image into luminous strips, wherein the number of luminous strips is designated as n, determini
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Reinprecht, Bettina Reisinger, Thomas Mitterlehner
  • Patent number: 10619816
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle headlamp (501), comprising a light source unit (502), a controllable reflector (590), an optically transparent cover (504), an optical absorber device (505), an optical shielding element (506), and a projection optics (507). The light source unit (502) is designed to emit light and to illuminate in a first direction of propagation (510), in the optical path of which the controllable reflector (590) is arranged, and the controllable reflector (590, 690, 70) at least partially reflects the light in a second direction of propagation (520), in the optical path of which the projection optics (507) is arranged and is oriented in a direction in front of the vehicle, in order to form a light pattern in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Bettina Reisinger, Josef Pürstinger, Markus Danner
  • Patent number: 10480739
    Abstract: A headlamp (1) for vehicles having at least one laser light module (3l, 3m, 3r) which has a laser light source (11) and a phosphorus element (13) which is arranged downstream of the latter in the beam path and a front-end optical system (16) in which the at least one laser light module is arranged in a housing (2) of the headlamp which has a projection optical system (4) for projecting the light distribution generated in the focal plane of the projection optical system of the at least one laser light module into the carriageway space, and at least one deflection prism (20; 22, 23) is integrated into the at least one front-end optical system (16), which deflection prism (20; 22, 23) lies in the region of the laser beam (15; 15-1, 15-2) which occurs when the phosphorus element (13) is defective or missing and which deflects this laser beam occurring in the event of disruption and keeps it away from the projection optical system and therefore from the carriageway space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Danner, Michael Riesenhuber, Bettina Reisinger, Peter Mayer
  • Patent number: 10378719
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device (1) for a motor vehicle headlight, comprising a light module (2) with at least one light emission source (10), a primary lens (100) and a secondary lens (300), wherein said primary lens (100) comprises at least one light-conducting ancillary lens (102) which is designed to direct light (50) captured by the at least one light emission source (10) through at least one light-emitting surface (103) of the ancillary lens and on to the secondary lens (300) arranged downstream in optical longitudinal axial direction (150), and wherein the secondary lens (300) is designed to image a light distribution, which forms on the light-emitting surface (103) of the ancillary lens, in an area in front of the lighting device (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Lukas Taudt, Bettina Reisinger, Andreas Moser
  • Patent number: 10344931
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating light distributions on roadways with motor vehicle headlights having at least one laser light source which is modulated by an actuator and a processing unit and of which the laser beam is directed onto at least one light conversion element via a beam deflection element actuated by a beam deflection actuator, said light conversion element having a phosphor for converting light, and said headlight also comprising a projection system for projecting the light image generated at the at least one light conversion element onto the roadway, wherein in addition to changing a specified light distribution, the processing unit is configured to change the intensity of the beam of the laser light source by the actuator according to a specified function in the sense of increasing the intensity in the direction of the edges of the light image generated on the light conversion element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Nina Winterer, Bettina Reisinger
  • Patent number: 10344932
    Abstract: Method for producing a light distribution on a road (8) using a motor vehicle headlight, wherein at least one laser beam (2) that can be modulated in intensity is directed in at least one coordinate direction in a scanning manner to a light conversion means (5) using at least one controlled beam deflection means (3) in order to generate an illuminated image (6) on same, said illuminated image being projected as a light image (6?) onto the road using projection optics (7), wherein the image generated from the laser beam (2) using the beam deflection means (3) is split by deflecting the laser beam (2?) by means of an image convolution means (4), and the sub-images are projected in a mirror-imaged manner in relation to a division line onto the light conversion means (5) to be combined and form an entire illuminated image (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Bettina Reisinger, Markus Reinprecht, Thomas Mitterlehner
  • Publication number: 20190195459
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle headlamp (501), comprising a light source unit (502), a controllable reflector (590), an optically transparent cover (504), an optical absorber device (505), an optical shielding element (506), and a projection optics (507). The light source unit (502) is designed to emit light and to illuminate in a first direction of propagation (510), in the optical path of which the controllable reflector (590) is arranged, and the controllable reflector (590, 690, 70) at least partially reflects the light in a second direction of propagation (520), in the optical path of which the projection optics (507) is arranged and is oriented in a direction in front of the vehicle, in order to form a light pattern in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Bettina REISINGER, Josef PÜRSTINGER, Markus DANNER
  • Patent number: 10288242
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laser lighting device for vehicles comprising two or more laser light sources, wherein each is configured to generate a primary laser light beam, a light guide associated with each laser light source, wherein each primary laser light beam is coupled into the first end of the guide and coupled out of the second end of the guide as a secondary laser light beam, and each secondary laser light beam is directed onto a light conversion means so as to generate a predefined luminous image thereon, which via a projection system associated with the light conversion means is projected as a light image onto the roadway, wherein each primary laser light beam has a first intensity profile, each secondary laser light beam has a second intensity profile different from the first intensity profile, and each secondary laser light beam is directed via a microscanner onto the light conversion means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Bettina Reisinger, Markus Reinprecht, Klaus-Dieter Scharf
  • Patent number: 10207630
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a light scanner (7) in a headlight for vehicles, wherein the laser beam of at least one modulated laser light source (1) is directed in a scanning manner, by way of the light scanner, onto a light conversion means (8) so as to generate a light image (11) thereon, which is projected via an imaging system (12) as a light image (11?) onto the roadway, a micromirror (10) of the light scanner is pivoted according to defined characteristic control curves in at least one coordinate direction, the desired light image (11) is divided into a pixel set having n rows and/or m columns, the horizontal and/or vertical characteristic control curves for the micromirror (10) are adapted to at least one selected row and/or column in terms of the required optical power of the pixels, and the adapted horizontal and/or vertical characteristic control curves are used to control the micromirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Bettina Reisinger, Thomas Mitterlehner
  • Publication number: 20180347774
    Abstract: A headlamp (1) for vehicles having at least one laser light module (3l, 3m, 3r) which has a laser light source (11) and a phosphorus element (13) which is arranged downstream of the latter in the beam path and a front-end optical system (16) in which the at least one laser light module is arranged in a housing (2) of the headlamp which has a projection optical system (4) for projecting the light distribution generated in the focal plane of the projection optical system of the at least one laser light module into the carriageway space, and at least one deflection prism (20; 22, 23) is integrated into the at least one front-end optical system (16), which deflection prism (20; 22, 23) lies in the region of the laser beam (15; 15-1, 15-2) which occurs when the phosphorus element (13) is defective or missing and which deflects this laser beam occurring in the event of disruption and keeps it away from the projection optical system and therefore from the carriageway space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Markus DANNER, Michael RIESENHUBER, Bettina REISINGER, Peter MAYER