Patents by Inventor Armin Austerschulte

Armin Austerschulte has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260029099
    Abstract: An optical solid body made of a solid transparent material for use in a light module of a motor vehicle lighting device. The optical solid body comprises a light coupling-in portion, via which light from a light source of the motor vehicle lighting device can be coupled into the optical solid body, and a light coupling-out portion, via which at least part of the light coupled into the optical solid body is coupled out of the optical solid body, so that the coupled-out light serves to generate at least part of a light distribution of the motor vehicle lighting device in front of the motor vehicle. The optical solid body further comprises an optically active layer arranged in the beam path between the coupling-in portion and the coupling-out portion, which is designed to modify incident light, wherein the optically active layer comprises at least one film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2025
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Inventors: Armin AUSTERSCHULTE, Johannes MANZ, Anja LÖHLE
  • Patent number: 11953172
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light module for a motor vehicle headlamp that has semiconductor light sources and a primary lens unit, wherein the primary lens unit comprises preliminary lenses. The light deflection surfaces in the preliminary lenses each have a first subsection and second subsection, wherein the curvatures and/or slopes of the subsections differ, such that the directions of the optical axes in the first subsections differ from the directions of the optical axes in the second subsections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Marelli Automotive Lighting Reutlingen (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Röhm, Armin Austerschulte, Emanuel Schild, Isabell Emmerich
  • Publication number: 20230358383
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light module for a motor vehicle headlamp that has semiconductor light sources and a primary lens unit, wherein the primary lens unit comprises preliminary lenses. The light deflection surfaces in the preliminary lenses each have a first subsection and second subsection, wherein the curvatures and/or slopes of the subsections differ, such that the directions of the optical axes in the first subsections differ from the directions of the optical axes in the second subsections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Marelli Automotive Lighting Reutlingen (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Röhm, Armin Austerschulte, Emanuel Schild, Isabell Emmerich
  • Patent number: 9651210
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light-source assembly, comprising at least one laser light source, a photoluminescence element, which is designed in such a way that, as the result of incident laser light, a mixed light distribution can be emitted by using photoluminescence and which is arranged in such a way that the laser light of the at least one laser light source can be radiated onto the photoluminescence element, and at least one light-emitting diode for emitting a supplemental light distribution, wherein the at least one laser light source, the photoluminescence element, and the at least one light-emitting diode are fastened to a common carrier component as an assembly. The invention further relates to a motor vehicle headlamp having such a light-source assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Ziegler, Armin Austerschulte, Christian Buchberger, Henning Hogrefe, Martin Reichelt, Ulrike Schloeder, Henning Vogt
  • Patent number: 9599304
    Abstract: A light module of a lighting equipment of a motor vehicle that includes several separately controllable light sources combined in an array, several primary optics elements in the form of collective lenses, each of which has a light ingress surface and a light emitting surface, that are combined to a primary optics array, wherein the primary optics elements concentrate at least a portion of the light emitted by the light sources and generate intermediate light distributions on the light emitting surfaces, and a secondary optics system for reproducing the emitted light on a road in front of a motor vehicle as resulting total light distribution of the light module. The secondary optics system for reproducing the intermediate light distributions as resulting total light distribution of the light module is focused on at least one of the light-emitting surfaces of the collective lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brendle, Emil P. Stefanov, Armin Austerschulte, Hubert Zwick, Hermann Kellermann
  • Publication number: 20150316223
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light-source assembly (10), comprising at least one laser light source (12a, 12b), a photoluminescence element (16), which is designed in such a way that, as the result of incident laser light, a mixed light distribution (18) can be emitted by using photoluminescence and which is arranged in such a way that the laser light of the at least one laser light source (12a, 12b) can be radiated onto the photoluminescence element (16), and at least one light-emitting diode (20) for emitting a supplemental light distribution (24), wherein the at least one laser light source (12a, 12b), the photoluminescence element (16), and the at least one light-emitting diode (20) are fastened to a common carrier component (26) as an assembly. The invention further relates to a motor vehicle headlamp (100) having such a light-source assembly (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Ziegler, Armin Austerschulte, Christian Buchberger, Henning Hogrefe, Martin Reichelt, Ulrike Schloeder, Henning Vogt
  • Publication number: 20140307459
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a light module of a lighting equipment of a motor vehicle that includes several separately controllable light sources combined in an array, several primary optics elements in the form of collective lenses, each of which has a light ingress surface and a light emitting surface, that are combined to a primary optics array, wherein the primary optics elements concentrate at least a portion of the light emitted by the light sources and generate intermediate light distributions on the light emitting surfaces, and a secondary optics system for reproducing the emitted light on a road in front of a motor vehicle as resulting total light distribution of the light module. The secondary optics system for reproducing the intermediate light distributions as resulting total light distribution of the light module is focused on at least one of the light-emitting surfaces of the collective lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Matthias Brendle, Emil P. Stefanov, Armin Austerschulte, Hubert Zwick, Hermann Kellermann