Patents Assigned to Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
  • Patent number: 9904861
    Abstract: The present application presents methods and apparatuses for detecting target objects in an image sequence of a monitoring region. In some examples, such methods may include adjusting pixel values of images of the image sequence for interference components associated with at least one interfering object, generating the interference components associated with the at least one interfering object that is situated in the monitoring region, searching the image sequence for the target objects based on the adjusted pixel values, detecting a start of a predetermined sequence of motions associated with the interfering object, and computing an instantaneous position of the at least one interfering object during the predetermined sequence of motions, wherein adjusting the pixel values of the images is based upon the instantaneous position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventor: Julia Ick
  • Publication number: 20180031194
    Abstract: A light module for a lighting apparatus of a vehicle having a reflector body, a light generating unit having at least one light source, a carrier on which the light generating unit is arranged. The light generating unit is replaceably arranged on the light module. The reflector body has at least one reference surface and the light generating unit has at least one locating surface. The locating surface can be brought to rest against the reference surface during insertion of the light generating unit into the light module in order to create a precisely positioned arrangement of the light generating unit on the reflector body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Ralf SEIGER, Heinz-Uwe SPORK
  • Patent number: 9880134
    Abstract: In a method for registering at least one damage event on a glass surface, particularly a windscreen of a motor vehicle, wherein at least one structure-borne sound signal is registered by a sensor device and the registered structure-borne sound signal is forwarded to at least one analysis unit, it is provided as essential to the invention that a first signal component of the registered structure-borne sound signal is analyzed, that further analysis is not begun until a first amplitude of the registered structure-borne sound signal has decayed, that the curve of the registered structure-borne sound signal is examined for the existence of signal jumps, and that conclusions may be drawn regarding at least one damage incident on the glass surface from the existend of at least one signal jump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventor: Klaas Hauke Baumgaertel
  • Publication number: 20180024288
    Abstract: A light guide for a lighting device, wherein the light guide extends along a longitudinal axis and has a coupling-out area which runs over the longitudinal axis and from which light can be emitted along the longitudinal axis, and wherein the light guide has, in its longitudinal extent, an end region which is provided with a cover in order to suppress high-intensity light emission in the end region. The cover is formed by laser-machining the light guide material in the end region of the light guide. The invention further relates to a method for forming a cover in the end region of the light guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Heinz-Michael DIRKS, Frank SCHOENING, Markus STUHLDREHER, Andreas SURAY, Franz-Georg WILLEKE
  • Publication number: 20180022267
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for operating a plurality of lighting devices having: a first control component, which is connected to a first lighting device or is formed integrally with a first lighting device; at least one second control component, which is connected to a second lighting device or is formed integrally with a second lighting device; at least one main control device, which is connected to the first and to the second control component and is configured to supply the control components with an operating voltage; and at least one data communications line, which is connected to the two control components and to the main control device. The main control device is is able to transmit a first position coding signal for the position coding of the first control component and at least one second position coding signal for the position coding of the second control component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventor: Bernd-Ulrich HAGEMEIER
  • Patent number: 9873369
    Abstract: An illumination device for vehicles, having a housing and having a plurality of holder devices for attaching the housing to a housing support and for aligning the housing with respect to a longitudinal dimension of the vehicle, a transverse dimension of the vehicle, and also a vertical dimension of the vehicle, wherein each holder device has an fastening clip connected to the housing, a hollow bolt which is functionally connected to the fastening clip when the holder device is installed, and a fastening screw for fixing the hollow bolt on the housing support, wherein at least one holder device is designed as a stabilizing device and comprises guiding means in such a manner that the housing is fixed by means of the stabilizing device in a maximum of two out of three spatial dimensions of the stabilizing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventor: Helmut Jakobsmeyer
  • Publication number: 20180015869
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a predictive cornering light with at least one headlight with a pivoting means for the controlled pivoting of the headlight, wherein a monitoring device is provided, which monitors the roadway and/or lane in front of the vehicle, and a control unit is provided, which, on the basis of the data of the monitoring device, drives the pivoting means for setting the headlight for illuminating the roadway and/or lane. The invention also relates to a lighting device in this regard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: HELLA KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Matthias HERNTRICH, Ingo HOFFMANN
  • Patent number: 9868384
    Abstract: A device for a motor vehicle with an electronics unit, which is used to control an electric component, and which is arranged on a cooling element for cooling the electronics unit. Provision has been made that the cooling element basically consists of metal and the cooling element encloses the electronics unit in such a way that it results in an electromagnetic shield of the electronics unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: David Duhme, Werner Kösters, Josef Studniorz
  • Publication number: 20170370550
    Abstract: A light module for a lighting device of a vehicle, in particular for a headlamp, having a light source and an optical element which is accommodated on a support body, and wherein an adjuster is provided for adjusting the optical element to the light source in order to adjust a radiation position of the light source relative to the optical element. The adjuster has a wedge element, which is arranged movably between the support body and the optical element so that when the wedge element is shifted an adjustment of the optical element to the light source can be produced at least in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Eduard JAPS, Gerd PAWLICZEK, Lars TILLMANN
  • Patent number: 9850792
    Abstract: A device for determining a filling level of a container is provided, having a damping cup, a measuring section extending vertically inside the damping cup, and having an ultrasound converter arranged at its lower end region, and at least one antechamber. A calming structure is arranged in at least a part of at least one antechamber, to achieve as much degassing of the liquid as possible. The part of the antechamber having the calming structure is designed to be open towards the top over a large area and is connected, via a venting channel, with a vent in the upper region of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Hella KGAA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Thomas Niemann, Jurgen Palloks
  • Patent number: 9845073
    Abstract: With a sensor device for recording moisture on a window pane with a transmitter and a receiver and an optical unit arranged between the transmitter and the receiver, wherein the optical unit includes an optical input unit facing the transmitter, an optical output unit facing the receiver and a coupling-in and coupling-out region on the side of the window pane, the coupling-in and coupling-out region is optically separated from the optical input unit and the optical output unit such that the electromagnetic waves emitted by the transmitter are refracted. A particularly compact constructional design is achieved thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventor: Alexander Gohmann
  • Patent number: 9835513
    Abstract: In a sensor module for measuring a pressure of a fluid, having at least one supporting element, at least one electronic circuit, particularly an integrated circuit, arranged on at least one circuit carrier, and with at least one pressure measuring chip that has at least one pressure measuring membrane, wherein at least sections of the circuit carrier are surrounded by a protective material to protect it from surrounding fluids, it is provided as essential to the invention that the pressure measuring chip and the circuit carrier are arranged vertically one underneath the other, and that the pressure measuring chip is at least partially mechanically decoupled from the supporting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventors: Peter Müller, Torsten Eggers
  • Patent number: 9835713
    Abstract: A device, particularly a radar sensor, has a voltage-controlled oscillator for generating a high-frequency signal which has an actual frequency, a voltage adjusting device to control the oscillator, and a calibration device operable for adjusting a voltage value which is assigned to a value of a target frequency. The calibration device is operable for finding a difference between a frequency and the target frequency corresponding to the voltage set at the oscillator. The calibration device is also operable for generating a low-frequency signal from the high-frequency signal, determining the oscillation period of the low-frequency signal, calculating an auxiliary frequency from the oscillation period of the low-frequency signal, wherein the auxiliary frequency corresponds to the actual frequency of the high-frequency signal, and for adjusting the voltage value assigned to the target frequency according to the frequency difference between the auxiliary frequency and the target frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventor: Andreas von Rhein
  • Patent number: 9829167
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus for vehicles with a plurality of light sources and with a defined light distribution. The optical unit has an upstream optical unit with upstream optical elements allocated to the respective light sources, which are immediately adjacent to the light sources in the primary emission direction upstream of same. The majority of upstream optical elements have a segmented embodiment and is connected by joining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Hans-Gerd Berthold, Marc Kaup, Franziska Kley, Dirk Kliebisch
  • Publication number: 20170326973
    Abstract: An actuating device for a movable part, in particular a cover of a vehicle body opening, including at least one actuator and at least one electromechanical switching element, wherein the electromechanical switching element can be brought from a first mode into a second mode by means of the actuator, wherein in the first mode the electromechanical switching element senses an actuation by means of the actuator and in the second mode the electromechanical switching element releases the actuator such that the actuator can be moved toward the movable part, wherein the electromechanical switching element has an electroactive polymer and/or a piezoelectric element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Olaf HUSBERG, Henning IRLE, Ingo NIEMEYER
  • Patent number: 9817073
    Abstract: A battery management system for a high-voltage battery that has a switching device with controllable switching elements for establishing and disconnecting an electrical connection between the poles of the high-voltage battery and the connection points for a consumer network, and a device for insulation monitoring. The poles and connection points are each switched to a reference potential for insulation measurement via a voltage divider. The battery management system may have a device for checking the switching status of the controllable switching elements by means of measuring devices for determining the electrical voltage. The measuring devices are arranged so that they measure the voltage between the output of the respective voltage divider and the reference potential. The device for checking the switching status of the controllable switching elements has a device for comparing the measured voltage values of the two measuring devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Daniel Klein, Georg Nau, Benjamin Schoening
  • Patent number: 9817049
    Abstract: A device for the monitoring of a trailer connection box of a vehicle to which the electrical system of a trailer can be connected. The device may include a circuit having a first connection (VBB) for the connection with a positive potential of a voltage of an electric system of the vehicle. The device may include second connections (Brkl, POSLL, POS LR, TurnSL, TurnSR, RevL, FogL) for the connection with contacts of the trailer connection box. The device may include a current and/or voltage sensor (SI), with first controllable switches (S11, . . . , S17), being connected in series to one of the second connections (Brkl, POSLL, POS LR, TurnSL, TurnSR, RevL, FogL) each. In a closed state of the first switch (S11, . . . , S17) is connected in series to the second connection (Brkl, POSLL, POS LR, TurnSL, TurnSR, RevL, FogL), each of the second connections (Brkl, POSLL, POS LR, TurnSL, TurnSR, RevL, FogL) is connected via this first switch (S11, . . . , S17) with a first node (K).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Juri Dome, Jan Schmäling
  • Patent number: 9810390
    Abstract: An optical surface for softening a light/dark border of a lighting device for vehicles, having a grid of lens elements distributed over a base surface, by means of which a light bundle passing through the optical surface can be diffused in relation to a main direction, wherein the lens elements are each designed as micro-lens elements, which, on one hand, exhibit a central main emission surface, which follows a contour of the base surface, by means of which the light beams of the light bundle are deflected in a main direction corresponding to the contour of the base surface, and on the other hand, exhibit subsidiary emission surfaces, running at an angle to the central main emission surface, by means of which light beams of the light bundle are diffused in a diffusion direction in relation to the main direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Susanne Hagedorn, Andreas Stockfisch, Klaus Streich-Schulz
  • Patent number: 9802529
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a predictive cornering light with at least one headlight with a pivoting means for the controlled pivoting of the headlight, wherein a monitoring device is provided, which monitors the roadway and/or lane in front of the vehicle, and a control unit is provided, which, on the basis of the data of the monitoring device, drives the pivoting means for setting the headlight for illuminating the roadway and/or lane. The invention also relates to a lighting device in this regard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventors: Matthias Herntrich, Ingo Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 9803824
    Abstract: A supplementary light module for a headlamp of a vehicle, and in particular a cornering light module, a turning light module, or a fog light module. Such module can be accommodated in a housing of the headlamp, comprising a lamp and a reflector. The light generated by the lamp can be emitted in a propagation direction. A base body is provided, on which at least the lamp and the reflector are accommodated, and wherein the base body is securely accommodated in the headlamp housing by means of a pivot axle and by means of an adjustment unit for adjusting the supplementary light module about the pivot axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventor: Thomas Herbers