Patents Assigned to Valeo Vision
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Patent number: 12698877Abstract: The invention relates to a light assembly including a main housing with a front opening and a rear opening facing at least a part of the front opening, a luminous device with a secondary housing, and an outer lens sealingly closing the front opening of the main housing. The luminous device can be seated in the rear opening, and the secondary housing is sealingly and reversibly fastened to the main housing. In the event of a failure of a component of a luminous device of a light assembly and/or in the event of impacts damaging a part of the light assembly, the light assembly according to the invention requires just one part to be replaced, for example, only the outer lens and the main housing or only the luminous device need be replaced.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: August 4, 2026Assignee: Valeo VisionInventors: Stephane Paugam, Olivier Ruat, Gavin Warner, Stephane Patrizi, Matthieu Syre
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Publication number: 20260218870Abstract: The present invention discloses an optical illumination assembly (100), said optical illumination assembly comprising: a light source (10) and a printed circuit board (20), the light source being arranged on the printed circuit board and emitting light; a light reflector (30), the light reflector being provided with a reflective surface, the reflective surface being configured to collect light emitted by the light source (10), and reflect the light in a light beam along an optical axis of the optical illumination assembly (100); and an optical projection apparatus (40), the optical projection apparatus being configured to project the light beam, wherein the light source (10) is provided with a main light-emitting range, and the printed circuit board (20) is inclined towards the light reflector (30) relative to the optical axis, to prevent light emitted by the light source within the main light-emitting range from directly reaching the optical projection apparatus (40) and being projected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: July 30, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Lu BAI, Rong ZHOU
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Publication number: 20260218872Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting module for a vehicle. The lighting module includes a lighting unit with at least one light source configured to emit light rays, at least one collector associated with the light source, a projection optical element having an optical axis, the collector orienting the light rays towards the projection optical element, and the projection optical element projecting the light rays towards the outside of the vehicle so as to form a light beam, a holder on which the projection optical element is fixedly mounted. The lighting module also includes two connection elements that are each connected to the lighting unit and to the holder, and articulated so as to allow a first movement of the lighting unit relative to the projection optical element, making it possible to move the light beam in a first direction orthogonal to the optical axis of the projection optical element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: July 30, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Nicolas MARTIN, Sylvain GIRAUD
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Publication number: 20260219369Abstract: One aspect of the invention relates to a light device for a motor vehicle. The light device includes a plurality of light modules that emit pulsed visible light, which is modulated by means of a high-frequency light code, each light module includes at least one driver circuit controlling multiple light-emitting diodes, and a device for receiving the light emitted by each of the light modules once the light has been reflected off an object, wherein each light-emitting diode is connected to the driver circuit by a conductive track, the conductive tracks connecting each of the light-emitting diodes to the driver circuit, each one of which light-emitting diodes includes the same length of conductive track to ensure synchronous control of the light-emitting diodes by the driver circuit. Another aspect of the invention relates to a driver assistance system for a motor vehicle, the system comprising at least one such light device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: July 30, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Matheo GOURDON, Mickael MIMOUN, Hafid EL-IDRISSI, Pierre RENAUD, Sidahmed BEDDAR, Geoffrey PIQUARD
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Publication number: 20260217188Abstract: A light system including: a light source; and a light guide aligned with the light source so that light from the light source directs light into the light guide, wherein the light guide has a concave region that light extends through so that the light extending from the concave region homogeneously illuminates an article of manufacture within an interior of a vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2024Publication date: July 30, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Abril Paulina ARELLANO MORALES, Emigdio LEON
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Publication number: 20260218871Abstract: The present invention refers to an automotive luminous module. The automotive luminous module includes a first substrate including a first light source coupled with a first optical element, and a heatsink arranged in thermal communication with the first substrate. The first optical element includes a main attachment element configured to attach the first optical element to the heatsink without crossing the first substrate, and wherein the first substrate is retained between at least a portion of the first optical element and a portion of the heatsink.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: July 30, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Pedro-Jose QUESADA, Maria Josefa CRIADO TORRES
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Publication number: 20260218875Abstract: The invention relates to a device for an automotive vehicle. The device includes at least two movable shutter elements having a first face and a second face, and an actuator capable of moving the movable shutter elements into a closed position of the device and into at least one open position of the device. The device further includes a light source arranged to emit light rays towards a movable shutter element of which the first face is arranged facing a second face of another movable shutter element, in the open position. The movable shutter element towards which the light rays from the source are emitted is rigidly connected to a reflective element capable of reflecting at least some of the emitted light rays towards the second face of the other movable shutter element, in the at least one open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2024Publication date: July 30, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventor: Rabih TALEB
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Publication number: 20260219370Abstract: One aspect of the invention relates to a light device for a motor vehicle. The light device includes a plurality of light modules emitting pulsed visible light, which light is modulated by means of a high-frequency light code, each light module includes at least two sectors each grouping a plurality of light-emitting diodes around a driver circuit, and a device for receiving the light emitted by each of the light modules after it has reflected off an object, wherein the light module includes a delay-locked loop connected to the driver circuit of each of the sectors to ensure synchronization of the driver circuits. Another aspect of the invention relates to a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle, the system comprising at least one such light device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: July 30, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Matheo GOURDON, Mickael MIMOUN, Sidahmed BEDDAR, Geoffrey PIQUARD, Hafid EL-IDRISSI, Pierre RENAUD
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Publication number: 20260211120Abstract: The invention relates to a light system. The light system includes an emitting module that includes a light module capable of emitting a light beam that produces a flashing photometric function and a modulation unit arranged to modulate the emitted light beam on the basis of a modulating data sequence, a receiving module capable of receiving a light beam, and a computing unit arranged to generate modulating data sequences having different duty cycles in order to emit different modulated light beams during each active and inactive phase. The computing unit being arranged to determine a time of flight separating the emission of the first or of the second emitted modulated light beam from the reception of a light beam received by the receiving module.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: July 23, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Mickael MIMOUN, Sidahmed BEDDAR, Pierre RENAUD, Hafid EL-IDRISSI, Jose AFONSO, Matheo GOURDON, Geoffrey PIQUARD
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Publication number: 20260210511Abstract: A lighting module, a lamp device and a vehicle are provided. The lighting module includes a light source and a light shaping component configured to shape the light from the light source into a beam with a desired lighting function for emission and includes a light collection portion and a cut-off line forming portion that are integrated, the light collection portion being configured to collect the light from the light source and guide the light towards the cut-off line forming portion, and the cut-off line forming portion being configured to receive the light from the light collection portion and shape the light into an outgoing beam with a cut-off line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: July 23, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Si CHEN, Ke YU, Lei FAN
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Publication number: 20260210512Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device comprising a set of light sources (1), a first row of light sources (2), a first reflecting surface (6), a second reflecting surface (7) and a primary lens (3). The first entrance dioptric interface (4) and the second entrance dioptric interface (5) are configured to receive light rays coming respectively from the set of light sources and from the first row of light sources. The exit dioptric interface (12) is configured to transmit light rays coming from the first row of light sources after they have been transmitted by the second entrance dioptric interface. The first reflecting surface is configured to reflect, toward the second reflecting surface, light rays coming from the set of light sources after they have been transmitted by the first entrance dioptric interface. These rays are then reflected on the second reflecting surface in order to be directed toward the exit dioptric interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: July 23, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Yves GROMFELD, Sergio DONOSO, Carlos-Rafael MARCOS
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Publication number: 20260210515Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting module. The lighting module includes light sources and a primary lens including two input diopters, an output diopter and two reflective surfaces. The first and second input diopters are respectively configured to receive light rays from the first light sources before they reach the output diopter and to receive light rays from the second light sources before transmitting them to the first reflective surface. The first and second reflective surfaces are respectively configured to reflect, towards the second reflective surface, light rays from the second light sources and to reflect, towards the output diopter, the light rays from the second light sources after their reflection on the first reflective surface. The portions of the first input diopter that are inclined differently are joined by a junction line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: July 23, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventor: Yves GROMFELD
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Publication number: 20260211171Abstract: The present invention relates to a light module. The light module includes a light guide with a light guide sheet and a light injection assembly, and a light source that is arranged so as to inject light rays into the entry surface of the at least one injection assembly. The guide sheet include a film with a light extraction region with microstructures capable of redirecting the light injected into the guide sheet toward the outside of the light module. The film includes microstructures on a first face and on a second face. For each portion from among portions of the light extraction region that are at different distances from a light injection edge surface, a sum of a density of microstructures on the first face and on the second face is an increasing function of the distance between the portion and the injection edge surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: July 23, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Rabih TALEB, Shivi SINGH, Pierre-Louis TASSY, Ghani SBIHI
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Publication number: 20260211088Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting system of a motor vehicle. The lighting system includes an emission module having a lighting module and a modulation unit, a reception module for receiving a light beam. The lighting system also includes a calculation unit for receiving a first instruction for emitting a first photometric function, the calculation unit being arranged to generate a first modulating data sequence having a first duty factor, and in that the calculation unit is able to receive a second instruction for emitting a given second photometric function and is arranged to generate a second modulating data sequence having a second duty factor that differs from the first duty factor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: July 23, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Matheo GOURDON, Sidahmed BEDDAR, Geoffrey PIQUARD, Pierre RENAUD, Mickael MIMOUN
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Publication number: 20260210514Abstract: A lighting module, a lamp device and a vehicle are provided. The lighting module includes a first light source and a second light source, a light collector; and a first reflector and a second reflector, wherein the light collector includes a first light collection portion and a second light collection portion that are integrated into one part. The first light collection portion being configured to collect light from the first light source and guide the light towards the first reflector, the second light collection portion being configured to collect light from the second light source and guide the light towards the second reflector, the first reflector being configured to reflect light from the first light collection portion to form a first beam for emission, and the second reflector being configured to reflect light from the second light collection portion to form a second beam for emission.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: July 23, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Si CHEN, Jiaye XU, Heng ZHANG, Lei FAN
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VEHICLE LIGHTING SYSTEM COMPRISING MEANS FOR EMITTING A LUMINOUS SIGNAL CODED AT VERY HIGH FREQUENCY
Publication number: 20260208658Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighting system for a vehicle. The lighting system includes a front left lighting device and a front right lighting device each able to project a lighting beam, means for emitting a high-frequency coded luminous signal outside the vehicle, and means for receiving such a luminous signal. The lighting system includes a luminous device arranged on the vehicle between the lighting devices, obstacle detection means, and means for decoding a luminous signal received by the luminous device, able to provide at least one value representing a time shift between the luminous signal received by the luminous device and a luminous signal sent by the luminous device to the obstacle detection means.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: July 23, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Matheo GOURDON, Mickael MIMOUN, Pierre RENAUD, Geoffrey PIQUARD, Hafid EL IDRISSI, Sidahmed BEDDAR -
Publication number: 20260211170Abstract: The invention relates to a flexible and transparent light guide. The light guide includes a flexible and transparent light-guide layer suitable for guiding light by total internal reflection and for allowing light to exit through an exit face in a first direction, at least two groups of light-injection elements suitable for coupling a light-guide layer to at least one light source, and a support element for folding the light-injection elements including at least two series of folding elements, each series being associated with a different group of light-injection elements, and the at least two series of folding elements being offset in the first direction so that the at least two groups of light-injection elements are offset in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: July 23, 2026Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Rabih TALEB, Pierre-Louis TASSY, Shivi SINGH, Hafid EL-IDRISSI, Ghani SBIHI
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Patent number: 12690104Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the illumination of at least one light source arranged at an end of at least one at least partially transparent or translucent light guide, the method being implemented by a driver device for driving the light source. According to the invention, the driver device is configured to control the illumination of the light source by means of pulse-width modulation and the method includes a first phase in which the illumination of the light source is controlled according to a first control ramp until a first level of intermediate lighting of the light source is reached and a second phase in which the illumination of the light source is controlled according to a second control ramp until a second level of lighting of the light source is reached, the slopes of the first and second control ramps being separate.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: Valeo VisionInventor: Julien Roy
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Patent number: 12687272Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting module, in particular for a motor vehicle, including a main optical system able to form a main light beam along an optical axis of the lighting module, with an upper horizontal cut-off. A first complementary optical system able to form a first complementary light beam along the optical axis, narrower than the main light beam and with an oblique lateral cut-off. A second complementary optical system able to form an alternative, second complementary light beam along the optical axis, narrower than the main light beam and with an oblique lateral cut-off opposite the oblique lateral cut-off of the first complementary light beam.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2025Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: Valeo VisionInventors: Yves Gromfeld, Corentin Debaine
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Patent number: 12686323Abstract: The present invention relates mainly to a lighting and signalling device including at least one luminous module capable of generating a lighting beam along a longitudinal optical axis and an optical element through which the lighting beam is projected. The lighting and signalling device includes a controllable liquid-crystal screen pressed against the optical element, the controllable liquid-crystal screen being capable of adopting different diffusion states, including at least one state of projection of the lighting beam in which the controllable liquid-crystal screen is transparent and a state of emission of a signalling beam in which the controllable liquid-crystal screen is at least partially diffusing.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: Valeo VisionInventors: Remi Monnier, Sebastien Roels, Pierre Albou