Patents by Inventor Christoph WÄCHTER

Christoph WÄCHTER 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: 11428379
    Abstract: Low beam headlight that can be obtained with small installation length and high light/energy output are described. A light source arrangement is provided, which generates a light cone of light that is less divergent in a first transverse direction than in a second transverse direction perpendicular to the first transverse direction, and this light source arrangement is used to illuminate three lens arrays arranged next to one another along the second transverse direction, which are thus each irradiated on the input side by an associated one among segments of the light cone arranged next to one another in the second transverse direction and output low beam on the output side with a luminous intensity angle distribution modified with respect to the light cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschuno e.V.
    Inventors: Peter Schreiber, Chen Li, Dirk Michaelis, Christoph Waechter, Stephanie Fischer
  • Patent number: 11421846
    Abstract: High beam headlight that can be produced with a small installation length with high efficiency and also provide effective low-cost manufacturability are described. For this purpose, a light source array having a plurality of light sources is combined with a honeycomb condenser. A collimator connected between the honeycomb condenser and the light source array illuminates the honeycomb condenser with collimated light of the plurality of light sources of the light source array. The arrangement of the components is such that the collimated light from a first light source leads to crosstalk-free irradiation of the honeycomb condenser and illumination of a first far-field segment. For each of the at least one second light source of the light source array, the collimated light of the respective second light source leads to irradiation of the honeycomb condenser with channel crosstalk and an illumination of a second far-field segment oriented obliquely with the first far-field segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Peter Schreiber, Chen Li, Dirk Michaelis, Christoph Wächter, Stephanie Fischer
  • Patent number: 11327325
    Abstract: Optical beam former for generating an emerging light beam from an incident light beam, the optical beam former including: a condenser lens array including several condenser lenses; and a projection lens array arranged in parallel to the condenser lens array and including several projection lenses; wherein exactly one of the projection lenses is assigned to each of the condenser lenses so that several optical channels are formed and so that each of the several optical channels generates a partial light beam of the emerging light beam, said partial light beam emerging in an angle-of-emergence range with a partial intensity distribution that is homogenous with respect to an angle of emergence, from an incident partial light beam, wherein the admissible angle-of-incidence ranges of the optical channels have the same size as to the magnitude in a plane extending in parallel to the optical axes of the condenser lenses; and wherein the angle-of-emergence ranges of at least two of the optical channels are different s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Chen Li, Peter Schreiber, Dirk Michaelis, Christoph Wächter, Stephanie Fischer
  • Publication number: 20220128827
    Abstract: An optical device for imaging a first, object-side set of mutually parallel bundles of beams onto an image surface, includes an optical beam expansion unit; an optical rearrangement unit configured to rearrange the first set of mutually parallel bundles of beams while maintaining mutually parallelism to obtain a second set of mutually parallel bundles of beams; an optical element configured to direct the second set of one or more bundles of beams onto the optical beam expansion unit by means of bundling, so that the optical beam expansion unit is reached by a third set of bundles of beams, the optical beam expansion unit being configured to expand each bundle of beams of the third set to obtain a fourth set of expanded bundles of beams; and an optical imaging unit configured to image the fourth set of expanded bundles of beams onto the image surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Christoph WÄCHTER, Bernd HÖFER, Peter SCHREIBER
  • Publication number: 20210231280
    Abstract: Low beam headlights that can be obtained with small installation length and high light/energy output are described. A light source arrangement is provided, which generates a light cone of light that is less divergent in a first transverse direction than in a second transverse direction perpendicular to the first transverse direction, and this light source arrangement is used to illuminate three lens arrays arranged next to one another along the second transverse direction, which are thus each irradiated on the input side by an associated one among segments of the light cone arranged next to one another in the second transverse direction and output low beam on the output side with a luminous intensity angle distribution modified with respect to the light cone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Peter SCHREIBER, Chen LI, Dirk MICHAELIS, Christoph WAECHTER, Stephanie FISCHER
  • Publication number: 20210215314
    Abstract: High beam headlight that can be produced with a small installation length with high efficiency and also provide effective low-cost manufacturability are described. For this purpose, a light source array having a plurality of light sources is combined with a honeycomb condenser. A collimator connected between the honeycomb condenser and the light source array illuminates the honeycomb condenser with collimated light of the plurality of light sources of the light source array. The arrangement of the components is such that the collimated light from a first light source leads to crosstalk-free irradiation of the honeycomb condenser and illumination of a first far-field segment. For each of the at least one second light source of the light source array, the collimated light of the respective second light source leads to irradiation of the honeycomb condenser with channel crosstalk and an illumination of a second far-field segment oriented obliquely with the first far-field segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Peter SCHREIBER, Chen LI, Dirk MICHAELIS, Christoph WÄCHTER, Stephanie FISCHER
  • Publication number: 20200218077
    Abstract: Optical beam former for generating an emerging light beam from an incident light beam, the optical beam former including: a condenser lens array including several condenser lenses; and a projection lens array arranged in parallel to the condenser lens array and including several projection lenses; wherein exactly one of the projection lenses is assigned to each of the condenser lenses so that several optical channels are formed and so that each of the several optical channels generates a partial light beam of the emerging light beam, said partial light beam emerging in an angle-of-emergence range with a partial intensity distribution that is homogenous with respect to an angle of emergence, from an incident partial light beam, wherein the admissible angle-of-incidence ranges of the optical channels have the same size as to the magnitude in a plane extending in parallel to the optical axes of the condenser lenses; and wherein the angle-of-emergence ranges of at least two of the optical channels are different s
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Chen LI, Peter SCHREIBER, Dirk MICHAELIS, Christoph WÄCHTER, Stephanie FISCHER
  • Patent number: 10281321
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for a spatially resolved and wavelength-resolved detection of light radiation emitted from at least one OLED or LED. A multilayer system is arranged between an electrode, an OLED or an LED, and a substrate and is formed using layers formed alternately above one another from a material having higher and lower optical refractive indices n. In this respect, light radiation from the at least one OLED or LED and having a plurality of different wavelengths ?1, ?2, ?3, . . . ?n thus exits the multilayer system. Light radiation that exits at different wavelengths ?1, ?2, ?3, . . . ?n at different angles is incident onto at least one detector array after at least a simple refraction at an optical element or after reflection at a layer or at a layer system of a sensor such that light radiation at a wavelength ?1, ?2, ?3, . . . or ?n is incident onto a respective detector element of the detector array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Norbert Danz, Christoph Waechter
  • Publication number: 20170248463
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for a spatially resolved and wavelength-resolved detection of light radiation emitted from at least one OLED or LED. A multilayer system is arranged between an electrode, an OLED or an LED, and a substrate and is formed using layers formed alternately above one another from a material having higher and lower optical refractive indices n. In this respect, light radiation from the at least one OLED or LED and having a plurality of different wavelengths ?1, ?2, ?3, . . . ?n thus exits the multilayer system. Light radiation that exits at different wavelengths ?1, ?2, ?3, . . . ?n at different angles is incident onto at least one detector array after at least a simple refraction at an optical element or after reflection at a layer or at a layer system of a sensor such that light radiation at a wavelength ?1, ?2, ?3, . . . or ?n is incident onto a respective detector element of the detector array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Norbert DANZ, Christoph WAECHTER
  • Publication number: 20120106164
    Abstract: A beam shaper according to an embodiment of the present invention for a light source arrangement for generating a radiation profile includes a multitude of adjacently arranged optical beam-shaping elements, each belonging to one type of a plurality of different types with different optical characteristics. When illuminated together, the beam-shaping elements effect the radiation profile of the beam shaper and each include an intensity-modulating element and a refractive element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gsellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Dirk MICHAELIS, Christoph WAECHTER, Norbert DANZ, Sergey KUDAEV, Michael FLAEMMICH