Patents by Inventor Marc Leitow

Marc Leitow 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: 10018770
    Abstract: A lighting device having a first lighting unit comprising a first light source and a first optics element, disposed upstream thereof in the main beam direction, for generating a first lighting function. The lighting device also has a second light source and a second optics element, disposed upstream thereof in the main beam direction, for generating a second lighting function. The first optics element, disposed in front of the first light source in the main beam direction, is designed as a flat waveguide having a narrow-side light intake surface, having a narrow-side light output surface, and having opposing flat sides connecting the light intake surface and the light output surface. The light intake surface of the flat waveguide is disposed at such a spacing to the first light source that a lateral light beam emitted by the first light source strikes the second optics element in order to illuminate said optics element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Marc Leitow, Paula Madrid Fernandez
  • Patent number: 9772081
    Abstract: A lighting device for vehicles with a semiconductor-based light source and an optical unit having an imaging device for producing a predetermined light distribution and having an optical element arranged between the semiconductor-based light source and the imaging device. The optical element has a back side facing the semiconductor-based light source and has a front side facing the imaging device. The optical element is formed as a color correction element which has a color correction-free partial surface area through which a firstly emitted partial light beam of the semiconductor-based light source passes and has a color correction-affected partial surface area through which the secondly emitted partial light beam of the semiconductor-based light source passes in a border angle area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Marc Leitow, Paula Madrid Fernandez, Hans-Jürgen Nickel
  • Publication number: 20160062031
    Abstract: A lighting device having a first lighting unit comprising a first light source and a first optics element, disposed upstream thereof in the main beam direction, for generating a first lighting function. The lighting device also has a second light source and a second optics element, disposed upstream thereof in the main beam direction, for generating a second lighting function. The first optics element, disposed in front of the first light source in the main beam direction, is designed as a flat waveguide having a narrow-side light intake surface, having a narrow-side light output surface, and having opposing flat sides connecting the light intake surface and the light output surface. The light intake surface of the flat waveguide is disposed at such a spacing to the first light source that a lateral light beam emitted by the first light source strikes the second optics element in order to illuminate said optics element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Marc Leitow, Paula Madrid Fernandez
  • Publication number: 20150211705
    Abstract: A lighting device for vehicles with a semiconductor-based light source and an optical unit having an imaging device for producing a predetermined light distribution and having an optical element arranged between the semiconductor-based light source and the imaging device. The optical element has a back side facing the semiconductor-based light source and has a front side facing the imaging device. The optical element is formed as a color correction element which has a color correction-free partial surface area through which a firstly emitted partial light beam of the semiconductor-based light source passes and has a color correction-affected partial surface area through which the secondly emitted partial light beam of the semiconductor-based light source passes in a border angle area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Marc Leitow, Paula Madrid Fernandez, Hans-Jürgen Nickel
  • Patent number: D595001
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Christof Gorczyca, Marc Leitow