Patents by Inventor Carsten Hohmann

Carsten Hohmann 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).

  • Patent number: 12338970
    Abstract: A lighting device for vehicles includes a light source unit containing numerous light sources, and includes a hologram unit containing numerous hologram segments for generating a predefined light distribution. The hologram segments form reflection hologram segments behind and/or next to the light source unit in the main beam direction (H) of the lighting device, such that light emitted from the light source strikes the reflection hologram segment at an acute angle ?). Holographic diffraction information is stored in the reflection hologram segments for generating a signal light distribution. The light source unit contains just one printed circuit board or one printed circuit board substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Lukas Hiller, Carsten Hohmann, Martin Mügge
  • Patent number: 12320489
    Abstract: Lighting device for a vehicle, comprising a lighting module having at least one light source and one luminous surface which is illuminated by the light source, from which light emanates during operation of the lighting device, as well as a liquid crystal display which is arranged at least partially in front of the luminous surface in such a way that, during operation of the lighting device, at least one portion of the light emerging from the luminous surface enters an entrance surface of the liquid crystal display and emerges from an exit surface of the liquid crystal display, wherein the lighting device is configured to control the liquid crystal display, in a targeted manner, in order to allow portions of the light impinging on the entrance surface to pass through the liquid crystal display and not to allow other portions of the light impinging on the entrance surface to pass through the liquid crystal display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: David Duhme, Stefan Gröne, Carsten Hohmann, Alfons Michaelis, Martin Mügge, Martin Vollmer
  • Patent number: 12281776
    Abstract: A light-guide element for a lighting device for a motor vehicle, wherein the light-guide element has a defined position for a light-emitting diode, a first reflection surface, a second reflection surface, and an outcoupling surface. The defined position, the first reflection surface, the second reflection surface, and the output coupling surface are arranged relative to one another such that light from the light-emitting diode is emitted from the defined position in a first light direction to the first reflection surface, is reflected at the first reflection surface to the second reflection surface in a second light direction substantially opposite to the first light direction and can be deflected from the second reflection surface onto the outcoupling surface in a third light direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Carsten Hohmann, Martin Muegge
  • Patent number: 12276393
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle includes numerous light sources and a collimator with numerous collimator lenses. Each collimator lens has an entry surface and an exit surface through which light from the light sources passes successively. Projection optics include a first and second transparent substrates, each with an entry surface and an exit surface. At least one array of cylindrical lenses are on the entry and/or exit surface of the first and second substrates. Light exiting the collimator first passes through the at least one array of cylindrical lenses on the first substrate and then through the at least one array of cylindrical lenses on the second substrate. The projection optics include a first array of cylindrical lenses on the first substrate, the cylinder axes of which extend in a first direction, which is horizontal when the lighting device is installed in a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Bernd Fischer, Carsten Hohmann, Marc Kaup, Martin Mügge
  • Publication number: 20250116384
    Abstract: A lighting device comprising a first light unit having a light source and a first flat light guide having a linear light coupling surface and a light decoupling surface. A second light unit has a light source and a second flat light guide having a linear light coupling surface and a linear light decoupling surface. The first flat light guide and the second flat light guide are connected to each other in a single piece to form a light guide element. Opposite flat sides of the first light guide and opposite flat sides of the second light guide intersect in an intersection area. The first flat light guide has a deflection section between a first flat section and a second flat section of the first flat light guide. The first flat light guide and the second flat light guide form a U-shaped light guide element in a transverse plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Carsten HOHMANN, Katrin HUNECKE, Yves Alexander LEIER, Michael SCHOENE, Sophia SIEDING
  • Publication number: 20250010716
    Abstract: A display device for the interior of a vehicle comprises light sources, light guides, and holograms. The light guides are arranged next to one another and each has an entrance surface and a reflective area. Each light source emanates light that enters the entrance surface of an associated light. At least one of the holograms is arranged at or in each light guide. The light emanated by each light source enters the entrance surface of the associated light guide in a direction of the reflective area of the associated light guide, is reflected by the reflective area of the associated light guide in a direction of the hologram of the associated light guide, and interacts with the hologram of the associated light guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Martin Mügge, Johannes Scheuchenpflug, Christoph Erler, Carsten Hohmann, Alfons Michaelis, Siemen Kuehl, Petr Vojtisek
  • Patent number: 12181122
    Abstract: A holographic lighting device for vehicles with a light source for emitting light and with an optical unit containing a hologram element which is set up in such a way that a hologram image is generated in a given field of view. In the hologram element, such hologram information is inserted that by changing a viewing angle from a center position of the viewer, in which the viewer is arranged vertically to a surface of the hologram element, in the direction of a lateral boundary position of the viewer in which a boundary of the field of view is reached, at least in some areas, a distance between the generated hologram image and the hologram image in the center position is increased or is rotated by a vertical and/or horizontal axis, and/or a brightness of the hologram image is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Carsten Hohmann, Martin Muegge
  • Patent number: 12163636
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle, wherein the lighting device has a circuit board with a multiplicity of light-emitting diodes arranged thereon, a transparent optical layer, and a reflector element, wherein the reflector element is arranged between the circuit board and the optical layer, wherein the reflector element has multiple segments into which the reflector element is subdivided, wherein a segment is associated with each light-emitting diode so that light emitted by the light-emitting diodes can be reflected by the reflector element and can pass through the optical layer. Two light-emitting diodes are arranged in a segment. In addition, a lighting system and a motor vehicle are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Mathias Drueppel, Carsten Hohmann, Marc Kaup, Alfons Michaelis, Martin Muegge, Diana Mundt, Thomas Rettweiler, Jacek Roslak, Christian Schmidt, Dietmar Schroeder, Martin Vollmer
  • Patent number: 12158253
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus for a motor vehicle comprises: a light source, an optical waveguide with an incident surface and a reflective region; and a hologram arranged on or in the optical waveguide. The illumination apparatus is configured such that light emitted by the light source enters the incident surface of the optical waveguide in the direction of the reflective region, is reflected by the reflective region inside the optical waveguide in the direction of the hologram and interacts with the hologram. The average distance between the light source and the incident surface is at least half as great as the average distance between the reflective region and the hologram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS JENA GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Mügge, Carsten Hohmann, Alfons Michaelis, Christoph Erler, Siemen Kühl, Petr Vojtisek
  • Publication number: 20240392943
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle includes numerous light sources and a collimator with numerous collimator lenses. Each collimator lens has an entry surface and an exit surface through which light from the light sources passes successively. Projection optics include a first and second transparent substrates, each with an entry surface and an exit surface. At least one array of cylindrical lenses are on the entry and/or exit surface of the first and second substrates. Light exiting the collimator first passes through the at least one array of cylindrical lenses on the first substrate and then through the at least one array of cylindrical lenses on the second substrate. The projection optics include a first array of cylindrical lenses on the first substrate, the cylinder axes of which extend in a first direction, which is horizontal when the lighting device is installed in a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Bernd Fischer, Carsten Hohmann, Marc Kaup, Martin Mügge
  • Publication number: 20240360974
    Abstract: A lighting device for vehicles includes a light source unit containing numerous light sources, and includes a hologram unit containing numerous hologram segments for generating a predefined light distribution. The hologram segments form reflection hologram segments behind and/or next to the light source unit in the main beam direction (H) of the lighting device, such that light emitted from the light source strikes the reflection hologram segment at an acute angle (?). Holographic diffraction information is stored in the reflection hologram segments for generating a signal light distribution. The light source unit contains just one printed circuit board or one printed circuit board substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Lukas Hiller, Carsten Hohmann, Martin Mügge
  • Publication number: 20240302017
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus for a motor vehicle, the illumination apparatus having a printed circuit board having a plurality of light-emitting diodes arranged thereon. An optical lens plate and a reflector element are provided with the reflector element being arranged between the printed circuit board and the optical lens plate. The reflector element has a plurality of segments into which the reflector element is divided, and each light-emitting diode is associated with a segment so that light emitted from the light-emitting diodes is reflected at the reflector element and passes through the optical lens plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Stefan GROENE, Carsten HOHMANN, Martin MUEGGE
  • Publication number: 20240302019
    Abstract: A light-guide element for a lighting device for a motor vehicle, wherein the light-guide element has a defined position for a light-emitting diode, a first reflection surface, a second reflection surface, and an outcoupling surface. The defined position, the first reflection surface, the second reflection surface, and the output coupling surface are arranged relative to one another such that light from the light-emitting diode is emitted from the defined position in a first light direction to the first reflection surface, is reflected at the first reflection surface to the second reflection surface in a second light direction substantially opposite to the first light direction and can be deflected from the second reflection surface onto the outcoupling surface in a third light direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Carsten HOHMANN, Martin MUEGGE
  • Publication number: 20240280238
    Abstract: Lighting device for a vehicle, comprising a lighting module having at least one light source and one luminous surface which is illuminated by the light source, from which light emanates during operation of the lighting device, as well as a liquid crystal display which is arranged at least partially in front of the luminous surface in such a way that, during operation of the lighting device, at least one portion of the light emerging from the luminous surface enters an entrance surface of the liquid crystal display and emerges from an exit surface of the liquid crystal display, wherein the lighting device is configured to control the liquid crystal display, in a targeted manner, in order to allow portions of the light impinging on the entrance surface to pass through the liquid crystal display and not to allow other portions of the light impinging on the entrance surface to pass through the liquid crystal display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: David Duhme, Stefan Gröne, Carsten Hohmann, Alfons Michaelis, Martin Mügge, Martin Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20240191861
    Abstract: A holographic lighting device for vehicles with a light source for emitting light and with an optical unit containing a hologram element which is set up in such a way that a hologram image is generated in a given field of view. In the hologram element, such hologram information is inserted that by changing a viewing angle from a center position of the viewer, in which the viewer is arranged vertically to a surface of the hologram element, in the direction of a lateral boundary position of the viewer in which a boundary of the field of view is reached, at least in some areas, a distance between the generated hologram image and the hologram image in the center position is increased or is rotated by a vertical and/or horizontal axis, and/or a brightness of the hologram image is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Carsten HOHMANN, Martin MUEGGE
  • Publication number: 20240159374
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle is provided with numerous light sources. A flat waveguide has one entry surface and at least one exit surface. A cover panel is provided, and the light generated by the light sources enters the waveguide, at least in part, through the entry surface, the light entering through the entry surface exits, at least in part, through the at least one exit surface, and the light exiting the waveguide through the at least one exit surface at least partially exits the lighting device through the cover panel. A housing is provided that at least partially encases the numerous light sources, the waveguide, and the cover panel. The thickness of the lighting device in the direction perpendicular to the length and width of the waveguide is less than 20-mm where light exits the cover panel when the lighting device is in operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Carsten Hohmann, Alfons Michaelis, Martin Mügge
  • Publication number: 20240125444
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle, wherein the lighting device has a circuit board with a multiplicity of light-emitting diodes arranged thereon, a transparent optical layer, and a reflector element, wherein the reflector element is arranged between the circuit board and the optical layer, wherein the reflector element has multiple segments into which the reflector element is subdivided, wherein a segment is associated with each light-emitting diode so that light emitted by the light-emitting diodes can be reflected by the reflector element and can pass through the optical layer. Two light-emitting diodes are arranged in a segment. In addition, a lighting system and a motor vehicle are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Mathias DRUEPPEL, Carsten HOHMANN, Marc KAUP, Alfons MICHAELIS, Martin MUEGGE, Diana MUNDT, Thomas RETTWEILER, Jacek ROSLAK, Christian SCHMIDT, Dietmar SCHROEDER, Martin VOLLMER
  • Publication number: 20230304643
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus for a motor vehicle comprises: a light source, an optical waveguide with an incident surface and a reflective region; and a hologram arranged on or in the optical waveguide. The illumination apparatus is configured such that light emitted by the light source enters the incident surface of the optical waveguide in the direction of the reflective region, is reflected by the reflective region inside the optical waveguide in the direction of the hologram and interacts with the hologram. The average distance between the light source and the incident surface is at least half as great as the average distance between the reflective region and the hologram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Martin Mügge, Carsten Hohmann, Alfons Michaelis, Christoph Erler, Siemen Kühl, Petr Vojtisek
  • Patent number: 11193646
    Abstract: A lighting device for vehicles, in particular a signal light, with a light source for emitting a light beam and an optical unit associated with the light source for producing a predetermined light function, the optical unit having a holographic element and a lens arranged in the main emission direction in front of the holographic element, the holographic element comprising such a diffraction structure that the light beam emitted from the light source onto the holographic element is varied according to a predetermined illumination pattern such that the holographic light beam lights an illumination surface of the lens to generate the light function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Martin Muegge, Carsten Hohmann, Rainer Hagen, Guenther Walze, Thomas Faecke
  • Patent number: D906854
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Florin Ovidiu Matei, Ovidiu-Petru Balaj, George Cristian Oproiu, Remus Pompiliu Dinu, Adrian Emanuel Maghet, Adrian Ciprian Firu, Gabriel Sirbu, Ovidiu Cristian Pardut, Marius Nicolae Dragomir, Dragos-Andrei Blagoi, Thomas Rettweiler, Carsten Hohmann