Patents Assigned to Hella KGaA
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Patent number: 9638384Abstract: An assembly of a decorative trim on the exterior surface of a plastic cover lens of a headlamp. Locking means are molded on the outer side of the plastic cover lens, which extend out in a transverse direction (Y) pointing at an angle from the surface of the plastic cover lens. The decorative trim comprises locking means receivers into which the locking means engage, and at least one snapping means on the decorative trim and one complementary snapping means are provided on the plastic cover lens for securing the decorative trim against the transverse direction (Y).Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.Inventors: Eudard Japs, Lars Tillmann
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Patent number: 9638382Abstract: A modular assembly for a headlight includes at least one semiconductor light module having at least one semiconductor light source mounted on a cooling element, having at least one ball socket in which the semiconductor light module is mounted and configured to be pivoted about a ball socket center, a curved cup formed in the cooling element and configured to be mounted in the ball socket, and a guide shell arranged between the curved cup and the ball socket. A method for adjusting the semiconductor light module is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.Inventors: Gerhard Pawliczek, Thomas Richesh Thanapaul
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Patent number: 9626571Abstract: A method and a device for determining a valid lane marking using a vehicle camera system. A series of pictures are taken of an area in front of the vehicle. At least a first lane marking and a second lane marking different from the first lane marking are detected in corresponding image data. A vehicle driving ahead of the vehicle is detected in at least two successively taken pictures and its position relative to the first lane marking as well as its position relative to the second lane marking is determined. Dependent on the positions of the vehicle driving ahead determined with the aid of the pictures, one of the detected lane markings is selected as the valid lane marking.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2010Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.Inventor: Robert Spangenberg
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Patent number: 9618176Abstract: The invention relates to a ventilation system for vehicle lighting systems having a housing opening with a protruding opening wall and a ventilation body, which is fixed to the housing opening by engagement with an inner part. The ventilation body and the housing opening have walls for forming a ventilation duct with a plurality of direction changes between an edge of the ventilation body and an aperture of the housing opening, wherein an inner part and an outer part which surround the opening wall of the housing opening have walls, which respectively sectionally lie circumferentially sealingly against the opening wall of the housing opening, and wherein the ventilation body and the housing opening are formed such that the ventilation body can be brought from an unlocked position into a locked position or vice versa by rotation according to a predetermined angle of rotation relative to the housing opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignees: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., AZ Ausruestung & Zubehoer GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Frank Hansmann, Jens Oliver Meyer, Michael Wysok
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Patent number: 9610890Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling illumination of a road profile, wherein the headlamp at least one light-emitting element, wherein the at least one light-emitting element is individually drivable in order to generate an individual luminous flux, wherein the light emitted by the at least one light-emitting element has a light distribution, wherein the lateral adaptation of the light distribution is performed depending on a determined road profile, in particular as a function of the distance from the headlamp.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.Inventor: Ingo Hoffmann
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Patent number: 9614413Abstract: An actuating drive includes an electric motor and a gearing arranged in a housing which is open on one side and which is closed by a cover. The electric motor is mounted in a recess bulge of the housing which is substantially sealed off from the gearing. The configuration provides a precise positioning of the electric motor relative to a first axle, wherein a first gear of the gearing is assigned to the same and wherein the actuating drive can be manufactured more simply and more cost-effectively than was previously possible. This is achieved in that the electric motor is attached indirectly to the housing by means of an accordingly shaped metal sheet, and is positioned in a predetermined location with no radial or axial play.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: HELLA KGAAInventors: Bodo Bücker, Dietmar Münker, Volkmar Stebner
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Patent number: 9610889Abstract: A control device for vehicle headlights with adjustable light distributions and with an adjustable vertical cutoff line in at least one light distribution, with access to the programming of information about the location of objects located in front of the vehicle with glare needing to be reduced, with a processing medium, operable for generating variables to set an adjustable light distribution on at least one main headlight and/or operable for generating variables to set a vertical cut-off line on a light distribution installed on the main right headlight and a vertical cut-off line installed on the main left headlight, with an outlet on which variables for setting up a light distribution and/or the vertical cut -off lines can be deployed, whereby the control device has a memory to store the light strengths of locations in front of the main headlights for the adjustable light distributions.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Hella KgAAInventors: Christian Schmidt, Tobias Irmscher, Christian Hüster, Stefan Krause, Carsten Wilks
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Patent number: 9607225Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.Inventor: Julia Ick
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Patent number: 9597999Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a light distribution of a headlamp, wherein the headlamp has at least one light-emitting element, wherein the at least one light-emitting element is individually drivable in order to generate an individual luminous flux, wherein the light emitted by the at least one light-emitting element has a light distribution, wherein the light distribution is defined by means of a predefined, three-dimensional basic distribution on the basis of parameters, wherein an adapted light distribution is varied on the basis of the basic distribution using selected, changed parameters.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.Inventor: Ingo Hoffmann
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Patent number: 9593836Abstract: A device for fastening a fan in a housing of a lighting device, wherein the lighting device has a pot-shaped housing in which a number of lighting units are arranged, such that the fan can be fastened on a carrier frame at several fastening points by means of fasteners, wherein the carrier frame can be fastened on the housing by means of additional fasteners, wherein the fan is connected to the carrier frame at each fastening point by a plug-in connection as a fastener.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.Inventor: Franz-Georg Willeke
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Device with a voltage-controlled oscillator and a circuit arrangement for controlling the oscillator
Patent number: 9594157Abstract: The present invention relates to a radar sensor. The radar sensor includes a voltage-controlled oscillator for generating a high-frequency signal with an actual frequency. The radar sensor also includes a circuit arrangement to control the oscillator, more specifically for adjusting a voltage to control the oscillator, with each value of a target frequency being allocated to a voltage value of the voltage intended to control the oscillator. The circuit arrangement to control the oscillator includes a signal generator with at least two signals that can be generated by the signal generator. The two signals may be two digital signals, two pulse-width modulated signals, or one digital and one pulse-width modulated signal. The signal generator also may include a first output, at which a digital signal can be provided or two digital signals can be provided and/or a second output at which a pulse-width modulated signal can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.Inventor: Andreas von Rhein -
Patent number: 9589191Abstract: The invention relates to a method for evaluating a plurality of chronologically staggered images, said method comprising the following steps: detecting a plurality of objects in a first image and storing each of the plurality of objects as tracks with a first capture time and/or a first capture location, preferably in a track list, detecting a plurality of objects in further images and identifying each of the detected objects as an object assigned to the respective stored track, wherein the respective track is updated by the current position of the identified object and, in the respective further images, objects detected for the first time are stored with assigned tracks, and wherein a covered path length, a distance and/or a time difference from the first capture time is determined as a capture period for each of the objects or tracks, wherein the path length, the distance and/or the capture period are compared with a respective predefined threshold value, and wherein the objects or tracks are classifieType: GrantFiled: February 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Hella KGAA Hueck & Co.Inventors: Marko Stefanovic, Rolf-Stephan Badura, Jan Karsch
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Patent number: 9589356Abstract: The invention proposes a method for determining a number (13) of transfer objects which are moving from a first subregion (8) of an observed region (5) into a second subregion (9) of the observed region (5), wherein a succession of images of the observed region (5) is recorded which identify objects (1; 2; 3; 4) and determine positions (1b, 1c; 2a, 2b, 2c; 3a, 3b, 3c; 4a, 4b) for the objects (1; 2; 3; 4), respectively, the objects (1; 2; 3; 4) are each associated either with the first subregion (8) or with the second subregion (9) on the basis of the positions (1b, 1c; 2a, 2b, 2c; 3a, 3b, 3c; 4a, 4b) of said objects, and multiple transfers of the same object between the first subregion (8) and the second subregion (9) are taken into account when determining the number (13) of transfer objects. The invention likewise proposes an appropriate system which can be used to carry out the method, said system comprising a sensor arrangement and a computation unit connected to the sensor arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.Inventor: Marko Stefanovic
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Patent number: 9581305Abstract: A method for the arrangement of a retaining ring (10) for holding a light source in the opening (11) of a reflector (12) for a vehicle headlamp. The retaining ring (10) extends in a plane and is arranged on the back side flush with the opening (11) on the reflector (12). For the arrangement of the retaining ring (10) of the reflector (12), a molded retainer part (13) is arranged on the reflector (12) and a recess (14) is formed in the retaining ring (10). The retaining ring (10) is placed on the reflector (12), so that the molded retainer part (13) is guided through the recess (14), after which the retaining ring (10) is turned in the plane of its extent about the molded retainer part (13), so that the retaining ring (10) clamps on the molded retainer part (13).Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.Inventor: Waldemar Petker
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Patent number: 9566897Abstract: A procedure for the operation of a lighting system (10) in order to produce a first and a second light function with a separate light module (20, 30) respectively, wherein at least the second light function features an adjustable illumination range (120), with the following steps: Detection of an error in the adjustable illumination range (120) of the second light function, Deactivation of the second light module (30) of the second light function, Continued operation of the light module (20) of the first light function.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.Inventors: Michael Naber, Carsten Wilks
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Patent number: 9568161Abstract: A ventilation system for a vehicle headlight housing. The ventilation body has an inner part extending into the housing opening as well as an outer part extending circumferentially about the opening wall of the housing opening, which on the one hand offers, in the locked position thereof, a sealing attachment and on the other hand provides a labyrinthic ventilation channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignees: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., AZ Ausruestung und Zubehoer GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Frank Hansmann, Jens Oliver Meyer, Michael Wysok
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Publication number: 20170036592Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a light distribution of a headlight, in particular of a headlight comprising one illuminant or comprising a plurality of illuminants which generates or generate an adaptable light distribution, wherein a glare region of the light distribution is defined with a glare distance outside which no causing of glare for a road user is effected, wherein an optical monitoring device having a monitoring region having a monitoring boundary is provided, wherein a luminous object is identifiable as a road user only within the monitoring region, wherein upon recognition or supposition of at least one luminous object which is outside the monitoring region but within the glare region, the at least one headlight is driven such that the glare distance is adapted, such as in particular reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: HELLA KGaA Hueck & Co.Inventor: Ingo Hoffmann
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Patent number: 9541250Abstract: An assembly comprising a strip on the exterior of a plastic cover lens for a headlamp. Locking means are formed on the exterior of the plastic cover lens, which extend diagonally, in a transverse direction, from the surface of the plastic cover lens, and that the strip is designed as a backing strip and exhibits locking means receivers in which the locking means engage. At least one snapping means is provided on the backing strip and one complementary snapping means is provided on the plastic cover lens in order to secure the backing strip in the transverse direction (Y).Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.Inventors: Eduard Japs, Lars Tillmann
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Patent number: 9539935Abstract: The invention relates to a screw connection (1) in ha headlight of a motor vehicle, which has a threaded element (10) with a screw shaft (11) that is screwed into a screw-in opening (12) of a headlight component (13). According to the invention, a protective sleeve (14) has been provided and mounted on at least a portion of the screw shaft (11) in such a way that the protective sleeve (14) covers the screw-in opening (12).Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.Inventor: Martin Hunolt
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Patent number: 9541251Abstract: A lighting appliance has a flat light guide and multiple light sources radiating light beams and a section for coupling-in light of the flat light guide, wherein the flat light guide has a surface for coupling-in the light beam and a deflecting surface for deflecting the coupled-in light beam toward a main section of the light guide, onto which a surface for coupling-out of light abuts in the light guiding direction, that the main section extends between the section for coupling-in of light and the surface for coupling-out of light has opposing flat sides, on which the coupled-in light beam is fully reflective in direction of the surface for coupling-out of light, wherein the surface for coupling-in of light is embodied so that the coupled-in light beam is directed under a tipping angle relative to a main radiation direction of the light source in the direction of the deflecting surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.Inventor: Carmen Bungenstock