Patents Assigned to Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
  • Patent number: 10753571
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lighting device has a housing and a cover plate covering a light exit hole in the housing, at least one ventilation intake opening and at least one air discharge opening, wherein an air guidance structure is disposed on the outside of the ventilation intake opening. The air guidance structure acts to deflect air that flows along the outside of the lighting device as a result of the effect of wind caused by driving, into an interior of the lighting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Schubert, Achim Bathe
  • Patent number: 10731816
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlight module has a semiconductor light source and a projection lens, which generates a light distribution in which an edge of the semiconductor light source is projected as a light/dark boundary, wherein the projection lens has a first subsection that generates a first subsidiary light distribution, and a second subsection that generates a second subsidiary light distribution, which is superimposed on the first subsidiary light distribution. The projection lens has a third subsection, which generates a third subsidiary light distribution, which is delimited by the light/dark boundary, and which overlaps the first subsidiary light distribution and the second subsidiary light distribution, wherein the first subsidiary light distribution and the second subsidiary light distribution lie below the light/dark boundary generated by the third subsection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Sebastian Pfaff
  • Patent number: 10644467
    Abstract: A coaxial connector for mounting on circuit boards or the like with a socket for accommodating a coaxial cable end and contacts for mounting the connector on the circuit board, whereby the socket is combined with a metal flange, which can be connected to an external electromagnetic compatible shielding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Martina Sauer-Oberschelp
  • Patent number: 10631414
    Abstract: A method for placing an SMD semiconductor light source component and a component of an illumination device for a motor vehicle. The SMD semiconductor light source component is operated so as to generate light, and the emission characteristics of the SMD semiconductor light source component are determined. In a subsequent step, the SMD semiconductor light source component and the component are positioned relative to one another in accordance with the emission characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Narcis Barqueros, Martin Gottheil, Michael Hiegler, Uwe Bormann
  • Patent number: 10458620
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lighting device has a housing and a ventilating device with an air supply line, which has an air intake opening, and which tapers away from the air intake opening in the form of a funnel, and which has an air outlet opening. The ventilating device includes a water collecting chamber, into which the air supply line opens with a transition cross section, and which has a water discharge opening and an air outlet opening, wherein the water discharge opening is disposed lower than the air outlet opening in an intended use of the ventilating device in a motor vehicle. A clearance of the water collecting chamber lying between the transition cross section and the air outlet opening is greater than the transition cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Jauernig, Uwe Schubert, Markus Kindler, Bernd Muehlbauer, Achim Bathe
  • Publication number: 20190326713
    Abstract: A coaxial connector for mounting on circuit boards or the like with a socket for accommodating a coaxial cable end and contacts for mounting the connector on the circuit board, whereby the socket is combined with a metal flange, which can be connected to an external EMC shielding device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Martina Sauer-Oberschelp
  • Patent number: 10400990
    Abstract: A light module for a lighting equipment of a motor vehicle including at least one semiconductor light source, which is arranged on a circuit carrier and with a reflector, which is coated with a lacquer and which comprises a mounting section that is coated with the lacquer, which features a broad side and a narrow side and onto which the circuit carrier is attached by a glue connection. The mounting section comprises a surface, out of which projections protrude, which are coated with the lacquer and on which the circuit carrier rests with a distance to the remaining surface of the mounting section and wherein the glue connection is carried out by a glue that is applied next to the projections or between the projections on at least part of the remaining surface of the mounting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Connerth
  • Patent number: 10323816
    Abstract: A light module of a lighting device of a motor vehicle including at least three optical elements for deflecting the light beams emitted by the light source arranged in succession in the beam path of the emitted light that produces a pre-defined light distribution on a lane in front of the motor vehicle. The first optical element comprises a first reflector element, which reflects the light beams emitted from the light source, the second optical element, which is arranged downstream from the first reflector element in the beam path, comprises a second reflector element and the third optical element, which is arranged downstream from the second reflector element in the beam path, comprises a lens element which, in cooperation with the second reflector element, projects the light beams previously deflected to the two reflector elements to realize the predefined light distribution on the lane in front of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Ben Huber, Wolfgang Hossfeld, Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn, Patrick Ziegler
  • Patent number: 10295137
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlight includes a light module, having a light source, a primary optics that collects light and micro projectors, of which each one comprises one respective input lens, one respective output lens and an aperture that is arranged between the input lens and the output lens. The input lens, the aperture and the output lens feature one width and one height. The primary optics, the input lens, the aperture and the output lens of one respective micro projector are arranged in such a way, that the light from the light source that emits from the primary optics illuminates the input lens, and the light of the light source that emits from the input lens illuminates the output lens. The headlight includes micro projectors, whose widths (b) are different and whose heights (h) are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Emil P. Stefanov, Christian Buchberger
  • Patent number: 10292248
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a first and a second light-emitting unit of a motor vehicle. A first voltage converter is provided for operating the first light-emitting unit. A second voltage converter is provided for operating the second light-emitting unit. A switching unit is arranged between the two light-emitting units and the voltage converters, such that the second voltage converter is connected to the first light-emitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Hiegler, Uwe Bormann
  • Patent number: 10208910
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlamp having a first reflection module, including a first reflector, a first group of LED chips and a second group of LED chips, having a second reflection module, which comprises a second reflector, a third group of LED chips and a fourth group of LED chips, and having a control circuit, which is configured to control the current flow through the light emitting diodes, and which is configured to activate the LED chips of the first group together with the LED chips of the fourth group, wherein the LED chips of the second group and the LED chips of the third group are deactivated. The control circuit activates the LED chips of the second group together with the LED chips of the third group, wherein the LED chips of the first group and the LED chips of the fourth group are deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Henning Hogrefe, Markus Kratzer, Sebastian Schildmann, Michael Scholl, J. Tobias F. Wagner
  • Patent number: 10139071
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlamp comprising a first semiconductor light source and a first concave mirror reflector, a second semiconductor light source and a second concave mirror reflector, and a third semiconductor light source and a third reflector. Each semiconductor light source includes at least two separate semiconductor chips. The second semiconductor light source includes a first group of semiconductor chips and a second group of semiconductor chips, and a control circuit, which operates either the first semiconductor light source without the third semiconductor light source, or the third semiconductor light source without the first semiconductor light source, operates at least a first portion of the semiconductor chips of the second semiconductor light source together with the first semiconductor light source, and operates at least a second portion of the semiconductor chips of the second semiconductor light source together with the third semiconductor light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Henning Hogrefe, Doris Boebel
  • Patent number: 10113704
    Abstract: A headlight of a motor vehicle including a light source and first projection optics, in which each one includes a respective first pair made of one respective first image mask and of one respective first projection lens with a first focal length, which is illuminated by the light source through the one respective image mask. The headlight has two projection optics, in which each one is featuring a respective second pair made of one respective second image mask and of one respective second projection lens with a second focal length, which is illuminated by the light source through the one respective second image mask. The second focal length is greater than the first focal length. An illuminated portion of the first image mask, has a shape of at least a first portion of an overall light distribution of the headlight, and a portion of the second image masks, has a shape of a central portion of the overall light distribution of the headlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Knittel, Martin Licht, Christian Buchberger, Emil P. Stefanov
  • Patent number: 10088121
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lamp is presented, having an elongated waveguide, which is configured to conduct light in its interior, via total internal reflection occurring on border surfaces of the waveguide, along a guidance line of the waveguide, predefined by the external shape of the waveguide and running inside the waveguide, wherein the waveguide has a light exit surface. The lamp is distinguished in that it has a focusing element, which lies in the light path of the light emitted via the light exit surface, and extends thereby over the entire length of the light exit surface, and is configured to reduce the beam width of the light bundle in which the light emitted from the light exit surface is propagated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Ladenburger
  • Patent number: 10082264
    Abstract: A light module for a motor vehicle headlight with at least two semi-conductor light sources, a light decoupling optical system having at least one partial optical element and a diaphragm. The light module includes a lens combination arranged between the light decoupling optical system and the diaphragm, which is illuminated by at least one of the two semi-conductor light sources, wherein the lens combination has different refractivities in two spatial directions perpendicular to one another and to the main propagation direction of the emitted light. The light decoupling optical system has different refractivities in the two spatial directions, wherein the refractivity of the light decoupling optical system is greater in the spatial direction in which the lens combination has a lesser refractivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hossfeld
  • Publication number: 20180259147
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlight module has a semiconductor light source and a projection lens, which generates a light distribution in which an edge of the semiconductor light source is projected as a light/dark boundary, wherein the projection lens has a first subsection that generates a first subsidiary light distribution, and a second subsection that generates a second subsidiary light distribution, which is superimposed on the first subsidiary light distribution. The projection lens has a third subsection, which generates a third subsidiary light distribution, which is delimited by the light/dark boundary, and which overlaps the first subsidiary light distribution and the second subsidiary light distribution, wherein the first subsidiary light distribution and the second subsidiary light distribution lie below the light/dark boundary generated by the third subsection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Sebastian Pfaff
  • Patent number: 10071674
    Abstract: A projection light module for a motor vehicle headlight with a low-beam diaphragm, which separates a low-beam volume of the projection light module located above this diaphragm from a high-beam volume of the projection light volume located below this diaphragm, and with a high-beam diaphragm arranged in the high-beam volume, which has a vertical diaphragm edge and which divides the high-beam volume into a high-beam volume lying to the right of it and a high-beam volume lying left to it. The low-beam diaphragm and the high-beam diaphragm are components of a composite diaphragm and the high-beam diaphragm is arranged in the high-beam volume obliquely to the optical axis of the projection light module so that its distance from the optical axis of the projection light module increases with increasing distance along the optical axis from the diaphragm edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn, Wolfgang Hoßfeld, Jens Humburg, Benjamin Stauß
  • Publication number: 20180242461
    Abstract: A method for placing an SMD semiconductor light source component and a component of an illumination device for a motor vehicle. The SMD semiconductor light source component is operated so as to generate light, and the emission characteristics of the SMD semiconductor light source component are determined. In a subsequent step, the SMD semiconductor light source component and the component are positioned relative to one another in accordance with the emission characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Narcis Barqueros, Martin Gottheil, Michael Hiegler, Uwe Bormann
  • Patent number: 10046358
    Abstract: A method for coating a plastic component with a paint, wherein in a flooding step a surface of the plastic component to be coated is provided with paint by applying it to a flooding area and with a paint layer by the paint flowing off through a draining area. In order to make possible the coating of complex three-dimensional components, and before the execution of the flooding step, the draining area is provided with paint in a spraying step or alternatively in a separate preceding flooding step so that a paint coating is formed in the draining area, which consists of sprayed or separately flooded paint and flooded paint, and a paint coating is formed in the flooding area of the surface to be coated, which consists only of the flooded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Sandra Kuhn, Steffen Nothdurft, Stefano Cordero, Manfred Tauss
  • Publication number: 20180187851
    Abstract: A light module for a motor vehicle headlight with at least two semi-conductor light sources, a light decoupling optical system having at least one partial optical element and a diaphragm. The light module includes a lens combination arranged between the light decoupling optical system and the diaphragm, which is illuminated by at least one of the two semi-conductor light sources, wherein the lens combination has different refractivities in two spatial directions perpendicular to one another and to the main propagation direction of the emitted light. The light decoupling optical system has different refractivities in the two spatial directions, wherein the refractivity of the light decoupling optical system is greater in the spatial direction in which the lens combination has a lesser refractivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hossfeld