Patents Assigned to Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
  • Method and a device for testing a lighting driving assistance system
    Patent number: 9500339
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for checking a lighting driving assistance system of vehicles. In this case, a vehicle is positioned in front of a body and a light of the vehicle is aimed at this body. Brightness distributions are obtained by adjusting the light in the horizontal and vertical directions in a plurality of angular positions and are recorded by an image capture unit. The recorded brightness distributions are used to calculate the distance and angular offset as well as the position of the body and actual values of the angular positions. These actual values are compared with preset desired values, and recommended settings for minimizing a difference between desired and actual values are output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Hella KGAA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Christian Schmidt, Ingo Hoffmann
  • Kick-down element for a vehicle
    Publication number: 20160334009
    Abstract: A kick-down element for a vehicle, complete with a housing, an actuator that is fastened in the housing such that it can be moved axially and a force surge element that can be moved axially in the actuator and which is axially loaded by an elastic element. There is a plate-shaped protruding part on at least one housing panel, which runs perpendicular to the movement direction and the upper end of which runs diagonally downward. The force step element interacts with at least one roller, which is located between the protruding part and a wedgeshaped (9) of the force surge element in a resting position. The kick-down element is intended to allow for a relatively long travel path for the actuator in the most compact design possible. This is achieved by keeping the roller attached to a lower end of the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventor: Claus Viethen
  • Adjustment device for light modules of a vehicle
    Patent number: 9481290
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adjustment device for light modules of a vehicle, by which the light module is arranged pivotal about a horizontal or vertical axis in reference to a housing, with an actuator arranged articulate along a direction of adjustment, which is connected via a link to a support frame carrying the light module, with the link comprising on the one hand a spherical link and on the other hand a cup-shaped link part accepting the former, with the cup-shaped link part comprising a laminar support section for the laminar contact at a fastening part of the support frame, with the laminar support section being supported at the fastening part in a manner displaceable perpendicular in reference to the direction of adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventor: Franz-Georg Willeke
  • Method for reducing linear distortion in a power interface for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 9481330
    Abstract: A method for reducing signal distortion in the transmission of binary coded signals in a motor vehicle, preferably in a power interface, is characterized in that an edge of the binary coded signal is formed in the transmitter by adapting the frequency and phase response of a harmonic such that the signal distortion to be expected on the entire transmission line can be compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Schmidt, Andreas Stumpf, Volker Wöβmann
  • Radar device and a method for detecting a malfunction of a receiver channel of a radar device
    Patent number: 9470781
    Abstract: A radar device for transmitting and receiving a signal in a frequency band for target detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventor: Thomas Hesse
  • Sensor device
    Patent number: 9473111
    Abstract: A sensor device for monitoring the environment of a vehicle includes at least two sensors, each with a signal generator, a transmitting antenna, and at least two receiving antennas, characterized in that at least one reference clock pulse generator for generating a common reference clock pulse for the signal generators of the at least two sensors is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventors: Thomas Wixforth, Andreas von Rhein
  • Airfield lighting apparatus
    Patent number: 9470407
    Abstract: Lighting apparatus for airports, in particular flush light, having housing with a housing base and a housing top that includes a recess for receiving a light disc. Light disc facilitates the emission of light from a light source, disposed in the interior of the housing, to the surroundings. A light source carrier on which the light source is mounted is attached to a heat transfer block locked in a recess of the housing top such that edges and/or at least partially flat sides of the heat transfer block are in direct contact with the corresponding sides of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co
    Inventors: Bjorn Abel, Klaus Auras, Thomas Albert Robbecke, Ralf Ruther
  • Sensor device having optics including decoupling and coupling regions
    Patent number: 9470622
    Abstract: A sensor device for detecting moisture on a windscreen has a transmitter and a receiver and optics arranged between the transmitter and the receiver. The optics have an upper plane for connection to a windscreen, a decoupling region serving to decouple the electromagnetic rays from the optics into the windscreen, and a coupling region serving to couple the electromagnetic radiation from the windscreen into the optics, and which even for a small construction shall supply a usable signal. The decoupling region has at least one surface inclined relative to the upper plane of the optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventors: Thomas Niemann, Carsten Thun
  • Headlights for vehicles
    Patent number: 9470386
    Abstract: A headlight for vehicles with a plurality of LED light sources that are arranged in a matrix in an LED array, each emitting a partial light beam that falls on an optical unit, located in the front, in the main beam direction in order to image light spots that combine to form a predetermined light distribution, whereby the optical unit comprises a first lens element and a rotationally symmetrically arranged second lens element, by means of which the partial light beams are transformed so that imaged light spots that are adjacent in the light distribution are directly adjacent or overlap, wherein the first lens element (4) is shaped in such a way that light spots of the light distribution in the vertical direction have a greater separation than in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventor: Gerhard Kloos
  • Pedal system for the generation of a force path having hysteresis
    Patent number: 9471085
    Abstract: A pedal system for the generation of a force path having hysteresis when a pedal is actuated. The system includes a pedal that is supported such that it can pivot between at least a first position and a second position. The pedal has a sliding element having a sliding surface, as well as a bearing device having at least one friction surface for supporting the sliding surface of the sliding element. The bearing device is supported such that it can pivot about a bearing axle. The friction surface and the sliding surface are in contact with one another in a first contact section when the pedal is in the first position, and are in contact with one another in a second contact section when the pedal is in the second position. The first contact section and the second contact section have different lever arms to the bearing axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventors: Claus Viethen, Werner Austermeier
  • High-temperature sensor for arrangement in a metal tube, especially inside the exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 9464556
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high-temperature sensor comprising contact wires in a metal tube, preferably a bent metal tube for arrangement especially inside the exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine, and spacer bodies distributed in rows along the contact wires so as to maintain the contact wires at a predetermined distance to the inner wall of the metal tube. According to the invention, every spacer body is approximately ovoid, the diameter of the center portion of the egg being not wider than the inside width of the as yet unbent metal tube. The spacer bodies are injection-molded polymer ceramic parts molded onto the contact wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventors: Thomas Niemann, Torsten Eggers
  • High-temperature sensor with a sensor element and a device for holding and positioning the sensor element, especially for automotive uses
    Patent number: 9464941
    Abstract: A high-temperature sensor comprising a sensor element and a device for holding and positioning the sensor element in a point of use, especially for automotive uses, has a holding part with a pouch molded into it in which the sensor element is received such as to be flush with the surface. In this way, the sensor element is reliably held in a high-temperature sensor and its safe operation is guaranteed also when the sensor is subject to vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Thomas Niemann, Jürgen Palloks
  • Filling level sensor with several thermoelements and method for measuring the filling level
    Patent number: 9459131
    Abstract: The aim is to achieve a particularly robust and reliable embodiment of a filling level sensor with several thermoelements for measuring the filling level of a liquid in a receptacle. This is achieved in that the thermoelements are arranged in parallel with one another and extend from the bottom upwards. The thermoelements are of different heights so that, depending on the filling level, one part of the thermoelements is flooded and another part is not. This can be used to derive information regarding the filling level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventor: Thomas Niemann
  • Method for recording vehicle-relevant data, in particular for detecting and for evaluating minor damage, sensor arrangement for installation in a vehicle and vehicle having the sensor arrangement for carrying out the method
    Patent number: 9452726
    Abstract: A method for recording vehicle-relevant data, in particular for detecting and evaluating damage to a vehicle in which structure-borne noise caused by an event, such as damage or contact, is detected and evaluated. The noise is recorded with its entire frequency spectrum, the frequency spectrum is divided into a lower frequency range and an upper frequency range, and an event is characterized by at least one amplitude in the upper frequency range. The event having an amplitude in the upper frequency range is included in an envelope curve analysis, in which a lower power density and upper power density are determined for a lower and upper frequency range, respectively. A relative measured value is determined from the ratio of the upper power density to the lower power density, an evaluation of the event is made by means of the relative measured value, and the event is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Thomas Niemann, Klaas Hauke Baumgaertel, Karl-Ludwig Krieger
  • Lighting device for vehicles
    Patent number: 9452704
    Abstract: A lighting device for vehicles having an optical fiber including a flat segment with two opposing flat sides, a light decoupling area, and a light coupling area. The light decoupling area in which light relayed by the flat sides is output in the primary direction of emission. The light coupling area couples the light into the optical fiber, and is arranged on a free end of a light coupling element which is perpendicular to the flat segment and projects from the same. A deflection structure is arranged between the light coupling element and the flat segment for the purpose of deflecting the light toward the flat segment. A rigid circuit board runs parallel to the flat segment. The circuit board is configured with a number of light sources which are each functionally assigned to the light coupling elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventors: Stefan Köhler, Matthias Mallon, Thomas Niedenzu
  • Driver assistance system for a vehicle
    Patent number: 9454906
    Abstract: A driver assistance system for a vehicle for monitoring cross-traffic includes a transmitting device for transmitting electromagnetic signals and operable for monitoring a kidney-shaped area in both a first monitoring direction and in a second monitoring direction and a receiving device for receiving electromagnetic signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Martin Mühlenberg, Thomas Wixforth
  • LIGHTING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20160258590
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting apparatus, particularly for a motor vehicle, having a plurality of illuminants as light sources that each produce an individual light distribution, having means for setting the direction of radiation of the individual light distribution of the illuminants and having means for setting the focusing of the individual light distribution of the illuminants and having control means for controlling the settings of the individual light distributions to produce a superimposed overall light distribution by dint of superimposition of the individual light distributions of at least single illuminants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: HELLA KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventor: Ingo HOFFMANN
  • METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A LIGHTING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20160257241
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for calibrating a lighting apparatus, particularly lighting apparatus for a motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: HELLA KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventor: Ingo HOFFMANN
  • Tapered sound outlet vane pump
    Patent number: 9429155
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vane cell pump comprising an electrical pump unit that has a pump chamber into and out of which a fluid can flow and also a rotor with a number of vanes to compress the fluid before flowing out from the pump chamber. The vane cell pump also comprises a sound-damping mechanism into which the fluid can flow after flowing through the pump chamber and that has a sound-damping cover attached to a part of the pump chamber and defining a sound-damping volume. A preliminary sound-damping mechanism with at least one preliminary sound-damping outlet from which the fluid can flow may be arranged within the sound-damping volume, wherein the preliminary sound-damping outlet has a cross-sectional profile tapering in the direction of fluid outflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventors: Theodor Hüser, Alexander Rüther, Udo Schubert
  • Pump
    Patent number: 9429159
    Abstract: A pump includes a pump chamber in which a rotor with gates is supported so that it can rotate, an electric motor for driving the rotor, a muffler that encloses a volume in the area of the pump chamber, wherein the volume is in active connection with an outlet port and a front muffler that is arranged within the muffler. To improve the service life and reliability of the pump in a vehicle with minimal installation expense, it is proposed that a filter is integrated into the front muffler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventors: Ingo Geue, Theodor Hüser, Dietmar Rech, Thomas Valeiras Fernandez