Reflector Structure Patents (Class 362/516)
  • Publication number: 20140133169
    Abstract: A lighting device may include a carrier, on which at least one semiconductor light source is arranged; and may have at least one main reflector, which arches over the at least one semiconductor light source; wherein at least one local reflector, which is likewise arched over by the main reflector, is arranged on the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Schwaiger, Juergen Hager, Oliver Hering, Jasmin Muster, Philipp Helbig
  • Patent number: 8723426
    Abstract: A system may include an LED array, an optical plane, optics, a sensor and a controller. The LED array is configured to generate LED light. The optical plane has a plurality of scattering features and with a mixing chamber. The optics is configured to direct the LED light to the optical plane. The plurality of scattering features are configured to reflect a sampled portion of the LED light into the mixing chamber. The mixing chamber is configured to mix the sampled portion of the LED light. The sensor is configured to sense the sampled portion of the LED light received from the mixing chamber. The controller is connected to the sensor and configured to control the LED array using the sensed, sampled portion of the LED light received from the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Prism Projection, Inc.
    Inventor: Garrett J. Young
  • Patent number: 8714793
    Abstract: A headlight is disclosed, having separate low-beam and high beam housings. The high-beam housing includes four planar inward-facing reflectors, in the shape of a pyramid, with the high-beam LED array at the apex and a plano-convex high-beam lens at the base. The low-beam housing includes three planar inward-facing reflectors along the top and lateral sides, similarly arranged as three sides of a pyramid. The low-beam housing has one or more planar, horizontal upward-facing reflectors, disposed below the longitudinal axis of the low-beam housing. Light propagating downward from the low-beam LED array directly strikes either the incident face of the low-beam lens or exactly one upward-facing reflector. When viewed from the front of the low-beam housing, the upward-facing reflectors resemble steps that descend from a lower edge of the low-beam LED array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventor: Lawrence M. Rice
  • Patent number: 8708538
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a plurality of light sources, and a light guide plate configured to emit light to the front side of the lamp from a second surface facing a first surface by internally reflecting light, which is emitted from the respective light sources, by a plurality of reflective elements formed on the first surface after causing the light to enter the light guide plate from a rear end face of the light guide plate. The light guide plate is curved to the first surface and gradually becomes thinner toward the front side. The reflective elements are disposed at a predetermined interval in a longitudinal direction and extend in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Natsume, Hiroya Koizumi
  • Patent number: 8708537
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus is provided that, while suppressing an increase in size, can change the illuminating direction. The lighting apparatus has: a laser generator which emits laser light; a light emitting member which is irradiated with the laser light emitted from the laser generator to emit light; an irradiated position changer which moves and thereafter stops an irradiated position at which the light emitting member is irradiated with the laser light; and a light projecting member which projects the light emitted from the light emitting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koji Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140112013
    Abstract: An optical member formed of resin includes a fixation portion, via which the optical member is fixed to a supporting member on which a light emitting element is supported, a reflective surface having a reflective region configured to reflect light from the light emitting element, and a thermal deformation absorbing portion configured to absorb thermal deformation of the optical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao Okawa, Ryuho Sato
  • Patent number: 8702287
    Abstract: A lighting fixture can include a light source, and a lens body including an incident face through which light emitted from the light source enters the lens body, an exit face, and a reflecting face configured to reflect light which has entered the lens body from the incident face such that the reflected light is emitted from the exit face to form a predetermined light distribution pattern having a boundary line between light and dark. The reflecting face can include a first reflecting region configured to reflect light with a reference wavelength which has entered the incident face perpendicularly with respect to the incident face. A second reflecting region can be configured to reflect light with a wavelength longer than the reference wavelength. A third reflecting region can be configured to reflect light with a wavelength shorter than the reference wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masafumi Ohno
  • Patent number: 8702286
    Abstract: A vehicle light can prevent color variations in a projected image. The vehicle light can include a light source, a wavelength conversion member including a phosphor configured to receive blue light having been emitted from the light source and then emitting white light, and a reflector having a reflection surface that reflects the white light having been emitted from the wavelength conversion member. The reflection surface of the reflector can have an optical structure that can diffuse the blue light incident on the reflection surface from the phosphor, reflect the blue light back to the phosphor, or allow the blue light to pass through the reflection surface to the area rearward thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakazato, Yoshiaki Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20140104863
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lighting and/or signalling device comprising a housing comprising a rear opening in which a light source can be fitted to the housing and a ventilation hole opening into the rear opening of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventors: Cyril Herbin, Olivier Grebert
  • Publication number: 20140104864
    Abstract: A light module, comprising numerous semiconductor light sources for emitting light, a primary lens element for concentrating the light emitted from the semiconductor light sources in section perpendicular to a sagittal plane of the light module, wherein the primary lens element exhibits numerous disk-like light conducting sections, extending in a plane perpendicular to the sagittal plane, wherein each light conducting section exhibits a light coupling surface and a light decoupling surface, and is designed for conducting light, subjected to a total reflection, from the light coupling surface to the light decoupling surface, wherein a semiconductor light source is allocated to each light conducting section such that light form the semiconductor light source can be coupled with the respective light coupling surface in the light conducting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Brendle
  • Publication number: 20140104865
    Abstract: A light emitting diode device (e.g., LED package) may include at least two light emitting devices that can be switched independently of one another and thus may be useful in vehicular lighting applications, for example low and high beam headlights. A LED device may include a first LED die and at least one additional LED die disposed at different positions within a common reflector cup or relative to a common lens. Multiple LED sub-assemblies may be mounted to a common lead frame along non-coincident principal axes. Methods for varying intensity or color from multi-LED lamps are further provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Cree, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward Lloyd Hutchins
  • Patent number: 8696180
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a semiconductor light emitting device arranged to face toward a front of the vehicle lamp, a first optical member disposed in front of the semiconductor light emitting device, and a second optical member disposed in front of the first optical member. The first optical member comprises a front surface and a back surface. The front surface is configured to internally reflect light from the semiconductor light emitting device toward the back surface. The back surface is configured to internally reflect the light reflected by the front surface back toward the front surface such that the light exits the first optical member from the front surface. The second optical member is disposed directly in front of the front surface of the first optical member and diffuses the light from the first optical member to form a light distribution pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishida, Naoki Uchida
  • Publication number: 20140098517
    Abstract: A vehicle headlamp system having a headlamp module and a processor. The headlamp module may include a light source and a reflector. The light source may include a plurality of light emitters which are individually controllable by the processor. The reflector may include a plurality of facets for reflecting the light received from the light source. The headlamp module is capable of switching between high and low beam light without mechanically movable components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventor: Xiaolu Chen
  • Publication number: 20140098555
    Abstract: An automotive headlamp (12) having first and second solid-state light sources (44, 46) and a reflector (26) having a light collecting region (28) and an aperture (40) defined therein. The light collecting region (28) of the reflector (26) is adapted to receive and reflect light emitted by the first solid-state light source (44) in a first illumination pattern. The second solid-state light source (46) is adapted to emit light through the aperture (40) in a second illumination pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Tessnow, Jonathan Dunlop, Lawrence M. Rice
  • Patent number: 8684575
    Abstract: A lighting unit including a lens body can achieve luminous flux utilization efficiency equal to or greater than a conventional lighting unit even with a reduced width of the lens body. A vehicle lighting unit can be constituted by a plurality of the lighting units. The lighting unit can include an LED light source, and a lens body disposed in front of the LED light source so that light emitted from the LED light source can be incident thereon. The lens body can include a lens portion configured to receive the light from the LED light source to collect the light, a front surface including the lens portion, a rear surface opposite to the front surface, a first end surface functioning as a light exiting surface having a substantially rectangular shape greater in width than in thickness, and a second end surface opposite to the first end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Mitsuhashi, Toru Umeda
  • Publication number: 20140085918
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for interior lighting in a motor vehicle, wherein the device comprises a lamp, a reflection means and a power distribution means and wherein the lamp, the reflection means and the power distribution means are arranged on a common support structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Interiors GmbH Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Jens Kirch, Oliver Thuma, Yasar Eroglu, Jacky Dollsy
  • Publication number: 20140085916
    Abstract: The invention deals with a light module, notably for motor vehicles, comprising a reflector with a reflecting surface, a screen arranged facing the reflector, the screen comprising a semi-reflecting area, and a light guide extending longitudinally along the screen and the reflector. The guide comprises a diffusing output face extending transversally from the semi-reflecting area of the screen to the reflector. A portion of the rays exiting from the output face passes through the semi-transparent area, the other portion being also reflected toward the reflecting surface to form successive images with a depth effect of 3D type, without dark areas between these images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Christophe Dubosc, Pierre Louis Tassy
  • Patent number: 8678627
    Abstract: A covering (16) for an exterior rear view mirror assembly for motor vehicles includes a plurality of covering parts (17, 18, 19, 20) defining a contact point (24) between each of the plurality of covering parts (17, 18, 19, 20). At least one of the covering parts (17, 18, 19, 20) is provided in a two-component or multi-component injection molding procedure. A coating (25) of plastic forms an outer layer, which covers the covering parts (17, 18, 19, 20). The coating (25), being a light-resistant and transparent plastic, forms a high-gloss surface. One of the covering parts (17, 18, 19, 20) is void of the coating (25) at the contact point (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: SMR Patents S.a.r.l.
    Inventors: Gregor Serve, Peter Hein
  • Publication number: 20140078767
    Abstract: A vehicle light device structure includes a headlight, a blinker, a front cover, and a light shielding plate. The blinker includes a light source, a reflector, and a blinker lens. The light shielding plate is to block, among light emitted from the blinker, part of the light emitted towards the headlight. The blinker inner space is formed by fixedly supporting the blinker lens by the reflector. Part of the blinker inner space bulges to a more outer side than the second side in the front view and is covered by the front cover. The light shielding plate is arranged inside the blinker lens and is fixedly supported by a light shielding plate support part arranged in a bulging space which is the part of the blinker inner space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi OGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20140078766
    Abstract: A lamp that has a housing with a base containing a main lighting device lamp with an internal circumferential wall arrange with a visible ring of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) with Surface Mounted Device (SMD) Light Emitting Diode (LED or LED's) characteristic of a halo of more than one visible Single color or Multiple color LED's arranged symmetrically with light illumination facing forward and outward from the headlight and controlled by a user with a wireless signal transmitting device sending signals to a wireless receiving device to control the headlights LED color shade, intensity and pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventor: Curtis Anthony Giametta
  • Patent number: 8672524
    Abstract: A rear lamp apparatus for a vehicle may include a plurality of reflectors mounted in a rear lamp housing of the vehicle to reflect light emitted from light sources at various angles and a light guide provided inside the reflectors and having end portions on which the light sources are mounted to guide the light emitted from the light sources through the light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jun Ho Cha, Byeong Ho Jeong, Yang Gi Lee
  • Publication number: 20140071704
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a two-dimensional image forming device, a light source, and a controller. The image forming device is disposed near a rear focal point of a projection lens and has a projection plane formed of plural optical elements arranged in a matrix manner. The light source irradiates with light the projection plane. The controller individually drives the optical elements to form, on the projection plane, an illumination pattern having a shape corresponding to a light distribution pattern projected by the projection lens ahead the vehicle lamp. The controller sets an output rate per unit time of the optical elements disposed at an end portion of the projection plane to be lower than that of the other optical elements. The light is output from the optical elements disposed at the end portion of the projection plane towards the projection lens at the output rate per unit time thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayuki Yagi
  • Publication number: 20140063831
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions of polycarbonate blends having, among other characteristics, improved heat resistance. The resulting polycarbonate blends, comprising a first polycarbonate comprising structural repeating units derived from bisphenol acetophenone and optionally a second polycarbonate polymer comprising structural repeating units derived from bisphenol A, can be used in the manufacture of articles while still retaining the advantageous physical properties of blended polycarbonate compositions with improved heat resistance. The disclosed polycarbonate blends optionally comprise one or more polycarbonate blend additives. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Daniel Lowery, Peter Vollenberg, James Mahood
  • Patent number: 8662706
    Abstract: A lamp unit includes: a light source array including a plurality of light sources aligned into an array; a mount portion on which the light source array is to be mounted; a first reflecting mirror configured to reflect light from the light sources, wherein the first reflecting mirror is parabolic cylindrical or hyperbolic cylindrical and is provided at least either above and below the light source array; and an optical member configured to project direct light from the light sources and reflected light from the first reflecting mirror to the front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Motohiro Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20140056019
    Abstract: An optical body for a vehicle light serves for coupling in, passing on and emitting the light delivered by a light source in a conical spatial region. It has a light emission surface and a recess which is opposite thereto and which has a longitudinal axis. The recess has an annularly closed inner peripheral wall which surrounds the longitudinal axis and a cover wall which extends transversely relative to its longitudinal axis and in which there is an optical structure. To improve the emission, a plurality of optically active surface portions are provided arranged around the point at which the longitudinal axis of the recess passes through the cover wall and each of which has a focal point lying on the longitudinal axis and the focal points of at least two of the surface portions are at a mutual spacing in the direction of the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: TRUCK-LITE EUROPE GMBH
    Inventor: Thilo Günther
  • Publication number: 20140056018
    Abstract: A lamp module for a motor-vehicle headlamp. The lamp module comprises a light source defining at least one light-emitting surface that emits a luminous flux and defines a horizontally oriented longitudinal edge and at least one other edge running at a right angle thereto. A reflector maps the light-emitting surface without generating an actual intermediate image in front of the lamp module and defines at least two reflecting and strip-shaped facets longitudinal axes of which are more parallel rather than transversal to the longitudinal edge of the light-emitting surface and disposed at a spacing to the light source where the light-emitting surface is mapped with the same mapping scale in front of the lamp module such that the light-emitting surface is mapped with a longitudinal edge running horizontally and another edge running vertically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
  • Patent number: 8651718
    Abstract: A vehicle light fitting unit includes two headlights which irradiate a low beam. The two headlights can each include a light emitting element, an elliptical series reflecting surface provided in a state where a first focal position is positioned near the light emitting element and a second focal position is positioned on an optical axis of the headlight, and a projecting lens provided so that a focal position on a rear side of the light irradiating direction is near the second focal position. Only a first headlight among the two headlights includes a light shielding member. The elliptical series reflecting surface of a second headlight is positioned so that the first focal position is positioned to the front of the light irradiating direction than the light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Yamagata
  • Publication number: 20140043840
    Abstract: The invention concerns a light module with a light source, a primary optical system and a reflector. The primary optical system contains a lens element that is embodied as a sector of an imaginary rotation body formed by the rotation of an imaginary rotation base surface around a rotation axis, wherein the rotation base surface is designed such that the lens element contains a light entry surface that faces the rotation axis and that surrounds the rotation axis and a light emitting surface that is located radially exterior to the rotation axis, wherein the reflector has at least one reflector zone that is embodied as a segment of the surface of a rotation symmetric imaginary associated circular cone, and wherein the axis of symmetry of the circular cone extends parallel to the rotation axis of the lens element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Hubert Zwick, Hermann Kellermann
  • Publication number: 20140043841
    Abstract: A front surface of a translucent member is shaped so that each light ray from a light-emitting portion is incident on the front surface at a predetermined incident angle ? equal to or larger than a critical angle ?, and a rear surface of the translucent member (rotating body type) is designed in shape so that in a rear peripheral surface portion of the rear surface, a tilt angle ? is “?<90°?2???” when reflected light from the front surface of the translucent member is incident on the rear peripheral surface portion at the tilt angle ? with respect to a vertical direction, where ? represents the critical angle, and ? represents a shift angle of re-reflected light with respect to a horizontal direction. This allows the front surface and the rear surface of the translucent member to internally reflect light by total reflection without using a vapor-deposited film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki Uchida
  • Patent number: 8648371
    Abstract: An LED unit includes an LED and an electrochromic element mounted on the LED. The LED includes a base, a light emitting die mounted on the base, a pair of leads electrically connected to the die and an encapsulant sealing the die. The encapsulant has a first area and a second area around the first area. The first area contains yellow phosphor therein, and the second area contains red phosphor therein. The electrochromic element has an opening through which the first area of the encapsulant is exposed. The second area of the encapsulant is covered by the electrochromic element. The electrochromic element can change its color when being electrified, thereby changing the color temperature of the light output from the LED unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Advanced Optoelectronic Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Te-Wen Kuo
  • Publication number: 20140036523
    Abstract: Optical module for a lighting and/or signaling device of a motor vehicle, in particular a headlight, comprising: a light source comprising in particular at least one LED, a reflector designed to reflect the light coming from the light source, a bending element (8) placed on the path of light coming from the reflector and designed to reflect light coming from the reflector, this bending element being produced on a metal part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Christophe Thullier, Frédéric Moret, Julie Vong, Jean Luc Meyrenaud
  • Publication number: 20140036525
    Abstract: An optical system that collects 100% of the light emitted from the light source and effectively directs it into the desired beam pattern. This is achieved by a combination of different optical control methods including reflector and lens optics. The cost is controlled by a design that reduces the optical part count to 2 main components, which reduces manufacturing and assembling time and maintains proper alignment to the light source and system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Magna International, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald O. Woodward
  • Publication number: 20140036524
    Abstract: A vehicular headlamp has a projection lens, a light source disposed behind a rear focal point of the projection lens, and a reflector that reflects light from the light source forward. The vehicular headlamp forms a forward light distribution pattern. The vehicular headlamp includes a plate-like shade having a front-end portion positioned in the vicinity of the rear focal point of the projection lens to form a cut-off line of the forward light distribution pattern. The shade extends rearward and obliquely downward from the front-end portion. An overhead sign reflective surface is provided on a lower surface of the shade. The overhead sign reflective surface reflects light from the reflector toward the projection lens to form a part of an overhead sign distribution pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takehiko Tajima, Akinori Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8641239
    Abstract: A lighting assembly utilizing a reflective body for use with a light source to uniformly disperse the light from the light source. The reflective body includes a lower array of first reflectors arranged about a central axis. Each of the first reflectors form an obtuse angle with the next adjacent first reflector. The reflective body also includes an upper array of second reflectors arranged about the central axis. Each of said second reflectors include a left face and a right face. The upper array defines obtuse angles between next adjacent second reflectors. Additionally, reflex angles are defined between the left and right faces of the second reflectors. The combination of angles evenly disperse the light supplied from the light source to provide a pleasant glow for illuminating an area below the lighting assembly without causing hot spots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Best Lights, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary D. Yurich
  • Publication number: 20140022808
    Abstract: A LED light module for a vehicle includes a reflective light frame having an elongated light reflective channel, a LED light assembly supported along the light reflective channel for generating light along the light reflective channel to provide an even light intensity distribution therealong, and a light diffusion holder enclosing the LED light assembly within the light reflective channel, wherein the light diffusion holder diffuses the lights at the light reflective channel to generate a uniform light effect along the light diffusion holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Kwun Wah Chan
  • Publication number: 20140022804
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting unit is capable of enhancing the light utilization efficiency by effectively utilizing the part of light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting element that typically does not enter the light guide lens while being reflected by the light incident surface of the lens. The vehicle lighting unit can include a light guide lens a first surface configured to be disposed on a front side of a vehicle body, a second surface configured to be disposed on a rear side thereof and a recessed portion including a third surface; and a light emitting element disposed substantially at a reference point of the light guide lens. The second surface can include a reflection area extending from the recessed portion. The third surface can surround the semiconductor light emitting element, so that the light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting element can be incident on the third surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sadayuki Konishi
  • Publication number: 20140016340
    Abstract: An intelligent type lamp and a vehicle lamp apparatus are disclosed. The lamp includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed on the first substrate, and a plurality of light sources disposed on the second substrate, wherein the light sources are grouped into at least one light source array, in each of which the light sources are disposed in a line, and the at least one light source array includes neighboring first and second light source arrays electrically isolated and individually driven. The light sources of the first light source array may be electrically isolated and individually driven, and the light sources of the second light source array may be electrically isolated and individually driven. Alternatively, the light sources of the first light source array may be electrically isolated and individually driven, and the light sources of the second light source array may be electrically connected and simultaneously driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Yun Min CHO, Gun Kyo Lee
  • Publication number: 20140016343
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlamp (10) including a multi-function projection module (14), which is designed to convert light from a first light source (16) into a first light distribution (34) by means of a first primary lens system (18) in a first beam path bounded by an aperture edge (26), and to focus light from a second light source (20) into a beam waist (44) and convert the light into a second light distribution by means of a second primary lens system (22) in a second beam path. The second light distribution has a predetermined central point (56). The projection module includes a mirror (30), which is arranged in the second beam path between the beam waist (44) and the projection lens (28) in such a way that the minor produces a virtual minor image of the beam waist (44) at the focal point of the projection lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Brendle
  • Publication number: 20140016341
    Abstract: A turn lamp to be mounted on a door mirror of a vehicle, the turn lamp includes a housing; a light source; and a substrate having a feeder circuit for the light source, wherein: the substrate is placed in the housing such that a plane direction of the substrate faces a horizontal direction when the door mirror is mounted to a vehicle body, and the light source is placed on the substrate such that an irradiation direction of the light source is parallel to the plane direction of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Kawaji, Akifumi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140016335
    Abstract: A lamp unit may be provided that includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate; and a plurality of light sources disposed on the second substrate, wherein at least two light source arrays are provided, in each of which a plurality of the light sources are disposed in a row, and wherein at least a first light source array and a second light source array among the light source arrays are individually driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Yun Min CHO, Gun Kyo Lee
  • Publication number: 20140003078
    Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle has a base member and a lens. A light emitting diode and a reflector are housed in a space formed by the base member and the lens. The light emitting diode is disposed at a predetermined position on a support member extending into the space. The support member is provided with a wall which is located in front of and near the light emitting diode and which is higher than the light emitting diode. In a front view, the wall hides the light emitting diode and blocks light exiting directly from the light emitting diode without propagating through the reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eikichi Monma, Tasuku Sekine, Shigeru Kodaira, Hajime Soda
  • Publication number: 20140003077
    Abstract: A light module includes a solid light frame and a light source embedded in the light frame, wherein the light source includes two spaced conductive films, a plurality of conductive terminals, and a plurality of light emitters. The conductive films are embedded at a bottom side of the light frame. The conductive terminals are implanted into the light frame, wherein each of the conductive terminals is conducted with one of the conductive films. The light emitters are implanted into an upper portion of the light frame, wherein the light emitters are conducted with the conductive terminals respectively. The conductive terminals are distributed at the light frame to generate a uniform light effect along the light frame when the conductive terminals are electrified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventor: Kwun Wah Chan
  • Patent number: 8616743
    Abstract: Projection module for a light unit of a vehicle having a reflector, a light source assigned to the reflector, a shutter connected to the reflector in a detachable manner, a lens holder holding a lens and being detachably connected to the shutter, and a carrier frame detachably connected to the reflector for the connection to a housing of the light unit, wherein the carrier frame is connected to the lens holder to form an integrally formed basic carrier part having, on a side facing the reflector, positioning means for the positioning of the shutter and screw fastening means for the screwable connection with a front edge of the reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventor: Berthold Doring
  • Patent number: 8616742
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting unit can include a first lens and a second lens disposed below the first lens, and a first semiconductor light-emitting device disposed substantially at a vehicle rear-side focal point of the first lens. Light emitted from the first semiconductor light-emitting device in a narrow angle direction can be incident on the first lens. A first reflector can be disposed diagonally forward and downward with respect to the first semiconductor light-emitting device such that light emitted from the first semiconductor light-emitting device in a wide angle direction is incident thereon and reflected diagonally rearward and downward. The light emitted in the narrow angle direction and incident on the first lens having a luminous intensity higher than the light emitted in the wide angle direction. A second reflector can be disposed diagonally rearward and downward with respect to the first reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20130343076
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicular headlamp which is capable of enhancing visibility while suppressing glare by forming a dark portion in a portion of a light distribution pattern and suppressing the vicinity of the formed dark portion from becoming a blue series color. The vehicular headlamp includes a light-emitting element, a projection lens, a reflector, a beam shaper, a first shaper disposed between the light-emitting element and a cut-off line forming portion and configured to shield a part of the light reflected from the reflector to form a dark portion in a portion of a low beam light distribution pattern, and a second shaper portion disposed between the cut-off line forming portion and the projection lens and configured to shield a part of the light incident to the lower side of an optical axis of the projection lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKADA, Yuta UGAJIN
  • Publication number: 20130343075
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp comprises a housing with at least one mirrored mirror surface arranged in the housing and a light source that can be arranged in the housing. It is possible to radiate light emitted from the light source under operating conditions in a main beam direction. At least one deflection body is arranged in the mirrored mirror surface such that light impinging the deflection body can be reflected and/or deflected from the deflection body in a secondary beam direction that cannot directly be illuminated by the light source. The deflection body is adjusted to a three-dimensional surface of the mirrored mirror surface such that the three-dimensional surface is maintained at least in sections such that light can be deflected in the main beam direction and secondary beam direction through the deflection body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Marc Schirmer, Hermann Kellermann
  • Patent number: 8613535
    Abstract: A wide light region lamp apparatus for a vehicle wherein a light emitting region thereof may be increased by covering a point light source with a patterned cover may include a semispherical reflective surface on which a mirror surface may be processed, the point light source mounted to a center of the reflective surface, and a three-dimensional cover configured to cover the point light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Japan R&D Center Inc., Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130329443
    Abstract: A transportation device lamp fixture includes a semiconductor light-emitting device, a circuit board to which the semiconductor light-emitting device is mounted, a lamp body, and a front cover that covers an opening of the lamp body. The semiconductor light-emitting device and the circuit board are housed inside of a lamp chamber formed by the lamp body and the front cover, and the circuit board is attached to an inside surface of an upper portion of the front cover or the lamp body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventor: Yuji YASUDA
  • Patent number: 8602616
    Abstract: It is provided a lamp, particularly halogen lamp, for a headlight of a motor vehicle, comprising a light source (12) for emitting mainly white light, a mainly transparent envelope (14) encapsulating the light source (12) and a filter element (22) provided at the envelope (14), wherein the filter element (22) is adapted for deflecting visible light of a predefined wavelength interval such, that mainly blue light can be provided above a bright/dark-cutoff (28). Since the deflected bluish light is above the bright/dark-cutoff (28) an oncoming driver recognizes earlier the light. At the same time the oncoming driver is not blinded by the blue light above the bright/dark-cutoff (28), since not the whole emitted light (40) but only a smaller wavelength interval is directed above the bright/dark-cutoff (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Bernd Schoenfelder, Manfred Westemeyer, Klaus Schoeller, Kirsten G. Baeumges, Manfred Ruske, Konrad Sell
  • Patent number: 8596841
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp is provided. The vehicle lamp includes a lens disposed on an optical axis of the vehicle lamp, the optical axis extending in a front-and-rear direction of the vehicle lamp, the lens comprising a first concave lens portion; a plurality of light emitting elements disposed to a rear side of the lens and around the optical axis at regular intervals in a circumferential direction, the plurality of light emitting elements comprising at least one first light emitting element disposed to a rear side of the first concave lens portion; at least one first reflector corresponding to the at least one first light emitting element and disposed between the corresponding first light emitting element and the optical axis, wherein the first reflector comprises a first reflecting surface which reflects light from the corresponding first light emitting element toward the first concave lens portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Yagi, Motohiro Komatsu