Patents by Inventor Hella KGaA

Hella KGaA 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).

  • Publication number: 20130223090
    Abstract: A lens bracket for accommodating a lens in a headlamp and a headlamp having a lens bracket of this type, said headlamp being formed substantially by a housing made of a base body and a lens cover, and wherein the lens bracket is designed as a plastic body. It is inventively provided that the plastic body has a metal surface element which is designed in such a manner that the plastic body is protected from radiation incoming into the housing through the lens cover and entering through the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: HELLA KGaA
    Inventor: HELLA KGaA
  • Publication number: 20130208493
    Abstract: A transformation optic arrangement for vehicles to convert a planar light distribution into an angular light distribution with a plurality of light sources arranged in one level like a matrix to generate the planar light distribution and with an optic unit arranged in front of the light sources in a primary direction of emission to deflect the light, with the optic unit comprising at least one first lens, with at least one additional lens being provided between the first lens and the light sources, arranged coaxially in reference to the z-axis extending in the primary direction of emission and distanced from the first lens, and that the first lens and at least one additional lens each show non-spherically shaped coupling surfaces and decoupling surfaces as flat sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Hella KGaA
    Inventor: Hella KGaA
  • Publication number: 20130201705
    Abstract: A device for determining control parameters to adjust the light distribution of a vehicle headlight when driving through a curve, from a first or second angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle, the first angle determined from first information, namely measurements and/or parameters to be adjusted via actuators of the vehicle, such as speed, steering angle, yaw rate, steering angle of the front wheels, distance from a second vehicle, or road progression ahead of the vehicle, with a control means to determine the first angle the second angle, with an interface to connect the device with actuators to adjust the light distribution of the headlights, where control parameter-signals can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: HELLA KGaA
    Inventor: HELLA KGaA
  • Publication number: 20130194131
    Abstract: A device, particularly a radar sensor, includes a voltage-controlled oscillator for generating a high-frequency signal with an actual frequency, a circuit arrangement to control the oscillator, namely for adjusting a voltage to control the oscillator, with each value of a target frequency being allocated to a voltage value of the voltage intended to control the oscillator, with the circuit arrangement to control the oscillator including a signal generator, with at least two signals can be generated by the signal generator, namely two digital signals, two pulse-width modulated signals, or one digital and one pulse-width modulated signal, and that the signal generator includes at least a first output, at which a digital signal can be provided or two digital signals can be provided and/or at least one second output is provided at which a pulse-width modulated signal can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: HELLA KGaA
    Inventor: HELLA KGaA
  • Publication number: 20130187319
    Abstract: A damper for damping vibrations between a support and a device mounted on the same includes two elastic elements which can be attached to the support by means of a bolt and a securement means. The damper should be suitable for different material thicknesses of the support. This is achieved in that a step is constructed on an outer periphery of a first element, wherein a smaller cross-section formed by the step corresponds to the cross-section of an opening in the support which is functionally assigned thereto, and the part having the smaller cross-section is longer than a thickness of the support, and in that a bore hole is included in an end face of a second element, wherein the cross-section of the bore hole corresponds to that of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: HELLA KGaA
    Inventor: HELLA KGaA
  • Publication number: 20130182448
    Abstract: A control device for vehicle headlights with adjustable light distributions and with an adjustable vertical cut-offline in at least one light distribution, with access to the programming of information about the location of objects located in front of the vehicle with glare needing to be reduced, with a processing medium, operable for generating variables to set an adjustable light distribution on at least one main headlight and/or operable for generating variables to set a vertical cut-off line on a light distribution installed on the main right headlight and a vertical cut-off line installed on the main left headlight, with an outlet on which variables for setting up a light distribution and/or the vertical cut-off lines can be deployed, whereby the control device has a memory to store the light strengths of locations in front of the main headlights for the adjustable light distributions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: HELLA KGaA
    Inventor: HELLA KGaA
  • Publication number: 20130155712
    Abstract: A lighting device for vehicles with a plurality of light sources arranged like a matrix in a light generation level, with a light forming optic unit arranged in front of the light sources in a primary direction of emission, and with another optic unit arranged between the light forming optic unit and the light sources, comprising a plurality of optic elements, with the optic elements being arranged like a matrix and one optic element each being allocated to a light source, with the additional optic unit being embodied as a widening optic unit with a plurality of band reflector segments arranged intersecting to form polygonal reflectors as optic elements and with a plurality of light forming elements, which are arranged like a matrix corresponding to the light sources and arranged between the light sources and the polygonal reflectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: HELLA KGaA
    Inventor: HELLA KGaA
  • Publication number: 20130145839
    Abstract: In a method for detecting rain on a windshield, whose degree of wetting is determined with at least one sensor value, it is provided that the sensor value is determined piezoelectrically, wherein vibrations on the windshield are detected, which change depending on the degree of wetting or raindrops hitting the windshield. As a result, the entire windshield serves as a detection surface, thereby yielding a high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventor: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
  • Publication number: 20130128602
    Abstract: A lighting device for vehicles with a number of light sources and with an optic unit to generate a predetermined light distribution, with the optic unit comprising at least one optic area, held via holding means in a predetermined assembly position, with a transparent substrate being provided with a plurality of grooves as fastening means so that an edge of the optic area can be framed in the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: HELLA KGaA
    Inventor: HELLA KGaA
  • Publication number: 20130094234
    Abstract: A lighting device for vehicles with multiple light sources arranged like a matrix in one light generation level, with a light forming optic unit arranged in front of the light sources, and with another optic unit arranged between the light forming optic unit and the light sources, comprising a plurality of optic elements that are arranged like a matrix and one optic element each being allocated at a face thereof to a light source and with the other optic unit in front of the optic elements being allocated to the light sources to coupling areas and at least one decoupling area facing the light forming optic unit, with the other optic unit being embodied as a widening optic unit for widening the partial light bundles emitted by the light sources with light guiding rods as optic elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: HELLA KGaA
    Inventor: HELLA KGaA
  • Publication number: 20130094236
    Abstract: A lighting device for vehicles with a plurality of light sources arranged like a matrix in a light generation level, with one light forming optic unit being arranged in the primary direction of emission in front of the light source, and with a pre-optic unit arranged between the light forming optic unit and the light sources, comprising a plurality of pre-optic elements, characterized in that the pre-optic elements are embodied as planar band elements provided with reflective flat sides and that the plurality of pre-optic elements form a band grid with a plurality of recesses, each allocated to the light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: Hella KGaA
    Inventor: Hella KGaA
  • Publication number: 20130088211
    Abstract: The invention relates to a direct current converter with Cuk-circuit and a measuring resistor for load current detection, wherein the Cuk-circuit has a switching diode, and wherein the measuring resistor is arranged in series to the switching diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Hella KGaA
    Inventor: Hella KGaA
  • Publication number: 20130088883
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device for vehicles, particularly for tractors and trailers, with a housing to which light sources of differing light generating types can be exchangeably fastened in an installed state, wherein the light sources of differing light generating types are assigned at least one optic element for the formation of a light module, which is detachably connectable to a carrier frame of the housing, and which generated a defined light function, and wherein a single lens is placed in front of the light modules of differing light generating types in the installed state and the carrier frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Hella KGaA
    Inventor: Hella KGaA
  • Publication number: 20130060431
    Abstract: A first operator control function is activated if it is detected by means of a first sensor that a first physical variable is higher than a predetermined first threshold value. In a similar way, a second operator control function is activated if it is detected by means of a second sensor that a second physical variable is higher than a predetermined second threshold value. A third operator control function is activated if it is detected by means of the first sensor that the first physical variable is higher than a predetermined third threshold value and if at the same time it is detected by means of the second sensor that the second physical variable is higher than a predetermined fourth threshold value, the third threshold value being higher than the first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicants: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO., VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Volkswagen AG, Hella KGAA Hueck & Co.
  • Publication number: 20130021451
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for determining object property of an object with the aid of images that have been recorded with the aid of a camera. Further, the invention relates to a method for determining a calibration parameter for a stereo camera. For determining the object property of an object, the object is defined in a first image recorded with the aid of the camera. Further, the brightness of a defined object is determined. Each time after a preset time interval, a further image is recorded with the aid of the camera. The object is defined in each of the further images and each time, the brightness of the defined object of each image is determined. Dependent on the brightness curve, an object property is assigned to the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventor: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.