Patents Assigned to ZKW GROUP GMBH
  • Patent number: 10731814
    Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle includes an array module including a plurality of micro Light Emitting Diode (LED) chips. The array module has a shape that is concave in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Shinwoo Yoon, Juhwan Seol, Yongkyo Kim
  • Patent number: 10731815
    Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle includes a cover lens, a housing that is coupled to the cover lens and that defines a lamp space with the cover lens, a light output unit including a plurality of light generation groups that are arranged inside of the lamp space in a first direction, and a light guide that has a three-dimensional (3D) shape and that is configured to guide light from the light output unit in a light output direction. The light guide includes: a first surface that defines a portion of the 3D shape of the light guide and that faces the light output unit, and a second surface that defines a portion of the 3D shape of the light guide and that defines an acute angle with respect to the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Youngil Kim, Yongjae Kim, Myungjae Song
  • Patent number: 10703254
    Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle headlight, the lighting device having a first light module (105), a second light module (106) and a third light module (107), wherein, when the modules are installed in a vehicle, the first light module generates a first overall light distribution (A), the second light module generates a first partial light distribution (F), and the third light module generates a second partial light distribution (Z), these distributions being in a region in front of the vehicle. When the first and second light modules are illuminated at the same time, the first overall light distribution at least partially overlaps the first partial light distribution, forming a second overall light distribution (AF). The second partial light distribution lies underneath the hh line and at least partially overlaps the second overall light distribution (AF). When all three light modules are activated simultaneously, a third overall light distribution (AF?) is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Lukas Taudt, Stefan Tomasetig, Heimo Frank
  • Patent number: 10670220
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a laser illumination device for a motor vehicle headlight, wherein the laser illumination device comprises two or more adjustable laser light sources (11 to 18), wherein the number of laser light sources is designated as N, and each laser light source generates a laser beam (11p to 18p) and at least one optical attachment (21 to 28) is arranged downstream of each laser light source and at least one microscanner (51, 52) is assigned, and each microscanner is arranged to guide two or more laser beams onto at least one light conversion means (60), wherein on the at least one light conversion means a luminous image is produced, and an imaging system (PS) is associated with the at least one light conversion means in order to project the luminous image as a light image onto the road, wherein the method includes the following steps: dividing at least a part of the luminous image into luminous strips, wherein the number of luminous strips is designated as n, determini
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Reinprecht, Bettina Reisinger, Thomas Mitterlehner
  • Patent number: 10655819
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes: a light source unit including one or more light sources and configured to generate light; a reflector configured to reflect at least part of the light generated by the light source unit; and a lens configured to transmit therethrough a first portion of the light that is generated by the light source unit and that is reflected by the reflector to the lens. The reflector includes: a reflective part configured to reflect, to the lens, the first portion of the light generated by the light source unit; and a non-reflective part configured not to reflect, to the lens, the light generated by the light source unit. The reflective part and the non-reflective part of the reflector are configured to selectively reflect the light generated by the light source unit towards the lens to output a light distribution pattern from the vehicle lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Taeyoung Na, Sangshin Park
  • Patent number: 10641455
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting unit (1) for a motor vehicle, which comprises a light module (2) and a mirror module (3), wherein the mirror module (3) is designed to reflect the light emission produced by the light module (3) in an emission direction of the lighting unit (1), characterized by: the light module (2), which comprises at least one light source (4) and a first heat sink (5), the mirror module (3), which comprises a mirror unit (6) and a second heat sink (7), a cooling system (8), which comprises at least one inlet (9), at least one outlet (10), at least one line (11), at least one flow unit (12), a cooling medium, a first cooling sink, and a second cooling sink, wherein the inlet (9) and the outlet (10) are connected by the line (11), and the flow unit (12) is inserted into the line (11) in order to produce a flow of the cooling medium in the line (11) and sucks in the cooling medium through the inlet (9) and discharges the cooling medium through the outlet (10), and the first cooling sink is
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Mayer, Markus Reinprecht, Stefan Mitterlehner
  • Patent number: 10641453
    Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle, the lamp that includes: at least one light emitting unit; a sensor that is disposed around the at least one light emitting unit, and that is configured to generate data regarding an object located outside the vehicle; a housing configured to accommodate the at least one light emitting unit and the sensor, the housing defining an opening through which light that is emitted from the light emitting unit is projected to an outside of the vehicle; and a cover lens configured to cover the opening of the housing is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Kiwon Kwak, Jinwoo Park
  • Patent number: 10638637
    Abstract: A component cooling device (101) comprising: a circuit board (102), the circuit board (102) having an upper side (103) and a lower side (104) facing away from the upper side (103); and at least one electronic component (106) and at least one hollow circuit board opening (107) for a gaseous cooling medium for cooling the component, wherein on the lower side (104) of the circuit board (102) is provided a guide (110) which forms a flow channel (109) that has at least one inlet (113) and at least one outlet, which is formed by the at least one circuit board opening (107), for at least one convection flow (108) of the cooling medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Erik Edlinger, Dietmar Kieslinger, Emanuel Weber
  • Patent number: 10632901
    Abstract: The invention relates to an additional headlamp (3, 3?, 3?) for a vehicle, which headlamp is designed to produce a light image in front of the vehicle (1) by emitting light from at least one light module (5) and to project said light image in front of the vehicle by means of a downstream imaging optical unit (8), wherein a first light module (6) is designed to produce a first light image having at least one first light distribution having at lease one first, substantially vertically oriented, linear intensity maximum, and a second light module (7) is designed to produce a second light image having a second light distribution having at lease one second, substantially rectangular intensity maximum, and the light images of both light modules (6, 7) are superposed, wherein the first intensity maximum is vertically below the second intensity maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Danner, Lukas Taudt
  • Patent number: 10627065
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lighting device (1) comprising at least one light source (2), an optical device (3) which is associated with the at least one light source (2) and into which light of the at least one light source (2) is irradiated, and an optical imaging system (6) associated with the optical device (3), this optical imaging system imaging light exiting from the optical device (3) in front of the motor vehicle lighting device (1), the optical device (3) being set up to concentrate the light of the at least one light source and to direct it in the form of at least two spatially separated light beams to the optical imaging system (6), and in that the optical imaging system (6) is set up to project the light beams in front of the motor vehicle lighting device (1) in the form of two light distributions, namely in the form of a main light distribution and a sign light partial light distribution, the optical device (3) having at least one shield (5) downstream of it that is arranged perpendicular to an optical axis
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Godderidge, Markus Danner
  • Patent number: 10619816
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle headlamp (501), comprising a light source unit (502), a controllable reflector (590), an optically transparent cover (504), an optical absorber device (505), an optical shielding element (506), and a projection optics (507). The light source unit (502) is designed to emit light and to illuminate in a first direction of propagation (510), in the optical path of which the controllable reflector (590) is arranged, and the controllable reflector (590, 690, 70) at least partially reflects the light in a second direction of propagation (520), in the optical path of which the projection optics (507) is arranged and is oriented in a direction in front of the vehicle, in order to form a light pattern in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Bettina Reisinger, Josef PĆ¼rstinger, Markus Danner
  • Patent number: 10618456
    Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle includes: a light generation unit having an array module with a plurality of micro Light Emitting Diode (micro-LED) elements; at least one processor; and a computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to perform: controlling the light generation unit to form a first light distribution pattern that, when projected on a vertical plane at a first distance from the light generation unit, includes a plurality of zones having different luminous intensities. Controlling the light generation unit to form the first light distribution pattern includes: controlling at least one first micro-LED element to generate a first luminous intensity at a first zone of the first light distribution pattern; and controlling at least one second micro-LED element to generate a second luminous intensity at a second zone of the first light distribution pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventor: Geunhyeong Kim
  • Patent number: 10612741
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microprojection light module (1) for a motor vehicle headlight, comprising at least one light source (2) and at least one projection device (3), which images the light exiting the at least one light source (2) into a region in front of the motor vehicle in the form of at least one light distribution, wherein the projection device (3) comprises an entrance lens system (30) including one, two or more micro entrance lenses (31), which are preferably arranged in an array, and an exit lens system (40) including one, two or more micro exit lenses (41), which are preferably arranged in an array, wherein each micro entrance lens (31) is associated with exactly one micro exit lens (41), wherein the micro entrance lenses (31) are designed in such a way and/or the micro entrance lenses (31) and the micro exit lenses (41) are arranged with respect to one another in such a way that substantially all the light exiting the micro entrance lens (31) enters exactly only the associated micro exit lens
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Moser, Bernhard Mandl, Christian Jackl
  • Patent number: 10611293
    Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle includes: a lamp module configured to project a light having a beam pattern onto a road surface; at least one processor; and a computer-readable medium coupled to the at least one processor having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to perform operations comprising: obtaining vehicle driving information associated with driving of the vehicle; determining, based on vehicle driving information, a light adjustment region; and based on the determination of the light adjustment region, performing a gradual control of light projected to the light adjustment region, the gradual control of light configured to progressively change a brightness of light in the light adjustment region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Seongho Park, Ana Kim
  • Patent number: 10605429
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle headlight (100), comprising a headlight housing (102) and a cover plate (103) having at least one light source (104, 105) arranged in said motor vehicle headlight (100). In order to cool the at least one light source (104, 105), a heat sink device (200) is provided. Said heat sink device (200) comprises two heat sink elements (106, 107, 201, 202, 501, 502, 601, 602, 701, 702, 801, 802, 901, 902, 1001, 1002) that are separated from one another by an air gap (209) and that are arranged in such a way that a first heat sink element (106, 201, 501, 601, 701, 801, 901, 1001) is mounted inside the motor vehicle headlight (100), and a second heat sink element (107, 202, 502, 602, 702, 802, 902, 1002) is mounted outside the motor vehicle headlight (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Mayer, Michael Brunner, Martin Ebner
  • Patent number: 10605428
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting unit for a motor vehicle headlight for generating at least two light distributions, wherein the lighting unit comprises: a first light source (1) for generating a first light distribution, a second light source (2) for generating a second light distribution, a reflector (3), an exit lens (4) and collimators (5, 6; 5, 6a, 6b, 6c) into which the light sources (1, 2) can feed light, wherein the reflector (3) deflects, in the direction of the exit lens (4), the light rays of the light beams (S1, S2) exiting the collimators (5, 6; 5, 6a, 6b, 6c), the reflector (3), exit lens (4) and collimators (5, 6; 5, 6a, 6b, 6c) are formed from a translucent body (100) in which light rays (S1, S2) propagate by means of total reflection, the reflector (3) has a first reflector surface region (30) which receives light exclusively from the at least one first light source (1), and the reflector (3) has a second reflector surface region (31) which receives light exclusively from the at least one
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventor: Markus Ecker-Endl
  • Patent number: 10598337
    Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle includes: a light generation unit including an array provided with a plurality of micro-light emitting diode (micro-LED) chips arranged therein; and a lens configured to redirect light beams generated by the light generation unit. The light generation unit is configured to output a plurality of beams having a divergence angle defined in a vertical direction. The lens is arranged to have a largest vertical cross-section thereof inscribed in the divergence angle of the beams that are output from the light generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Juung Jo, Hankyu Cho
  • Patent number: 10598330
    Abstract: A headlight for vehicles including at least one light source and an illumination optics system associated therewith, comprising a micromirror array and a projection optics system. A central processing unit comprising a light source control unit and an array control unit is associated with the light source and the micromirror array. The shaped rays of light of the light source are directed at the micromirror array, and the reflected light beam structured thereby is projected by the projection optics system as a light image into a traffic space. At least two light sources are provided, the rays of light of which are directed at a micromirror array common to the light sources, and at least two superimposed regions of a projection optics system having different refractive powers for at least two image regions of the light image are associated with the light beam reflected by the micromirror array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Mayer, Stefan Mitterlehner
  • Patent number: 10589662
    Abstract: An adjusting system for a lighting apparatus for vehicles is configured to emit light for forming a light distribution described by a parameter set. The adjusting system includes a light control unit and is configured to modify the light distribution. The parameter set describing the light distribution is stored in the light control unit, which and configured to control the lighting apparatus such that the lighting apparatus emits light for forming the light distribution in accordance with the parameter set into an area in front of the lighting apparatus. An operator control unit separate from both the lighting apparatus and the light control unit is configured to accept user inputs and to transmit the user inputs to the light control unit, which is configured to modify the parameter set in accordance with the user inputs to produce a further parameter set describing a further user-defined, preferably dynamic, light distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventor: Markus Reinprecht
  • Patent number: 10591126
    Abstract: A micro-projection light module (1) for a vehicle headlight, comprising at least one light source (2) and at least one projection arrangement (3) which images the light emitted from the at least one light source (2) into an area in front of the motor vehicle in the form of at least one light distribution, wherein the projection arrangement (3) comprises an entry optics (30) having one, two, or more micro entry optics (31) preferably arranged in an array, and an exit optics (40) having one, two, or more micro exit optics (41) preferably arranged in an array, wherein each micro entry optics (31) is paired with precisely one micro exit optics (41), wherein the micro entry optics (31) are designed in such a way and/or the micro entry optics (31) and the micro exit optics (41) are arranged relative to one another in such a way that substantially all the light emitted from a micro entry optics (31) enters precisely only into the paired micro exit optics (41), and wherein the light pre-shaped by the micro entry opti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventor: Bernhard Mandl