Patents by Inventor Christian Plattfaut

Christian Plattfaut 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: 6107916
    Abstract: A signal lamp for vehicles, specifically motor vehicles, has a housing in which at least one light source is positioned, and a light guide from which light is directed in a predetermined light exit direction, whereby the light guide is structured as a long stretched-out light-release element that extends at least in areas along an edge of a housing and/or of a reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Hella Kg Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Andre Blanke, Herbert Cramer, Elmar Duenschede, Karsten Eichhorn, Guenther Fischer, Klaus Henneboehle, Franz-Gerhard Jost, Christian Plattfaut, Bernhard Scholl
  • Patent number: 5988837
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a vehicle headlight during cornering, involves creating cornering light by superimposing a light distribution pattern (37) with a greater horizontal dispersion than that of a low-beam light onto the low-beam light distribution pattern (36). A fog-light distribution pattern (37) of a fog light is used as the light distribution pattern having the greater horizontal dispersion. A single headlight unit can be used for generating such cornering light according to the method of this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Hella KG Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Karsten Eichhorn, Franz-Josef Kalze, Christian Plattfaut
  • Patent number: 5954428
    Abstract: A vehicle headlight (1) has a reflector (2) that is divided vertically into an upper region (6), a middle region (7), and a lower region (8), wherein the upper region is structured as a low-beam light surface (9) having a first center (10), through which extends a longitudinal axis of a first lamp (3), the middle region is formed as a fog light surface (14) and the lower region as a high-beam light surface (15), and the fog light surface and the high-beam light surface have a common center (16) through which extends a longitudinal axis of a second lamp (4). The reflector is mounted so that it can pivot about its central axis, and is pivoted by an electric motor (5) as a function of lateral inclination of a vehicle on which the headlight is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Hella KG Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Karsten Eichhorn, Roland Lachmayer, Christian Plattfaut, Holm Tietz