Patents by Inventor Henning Kiel

Henning Kiel 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: 10308165
    Abstract: A method and device for controlling a light emission of a rear lamp of a vehicle. The rear lamp includes optical components having emission surfaces having at least three partial emission surfaces. At least a first and a second light function can be produced by the light emission of the emission surfaces. After a switchover process from the first to the second light function, the first partial emission surface, which emits light for the first light function, emits no light, the second partial emission surface, which emits light for the first light function, continues to emit light, and the third partial emission surface, which emits no light for the first light function, emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreu Sola Gomfaus, Michael Werner, Michael Mueller, Mathias Thamm, Daniel Mensch, Henning Kiel
  • Publication number: 20160107564
    Abstract: A method and device for controlling a light emission of a rear lamp of a vehicle. The rear lamp includes optical components having emission surfaces having at least three partial emission surfaces. At least a first and a second light function can be produced by the light emission of the emission surfaces. After a switchover process from the first to the second light function, the first partial emission surface, which emits light for the first light function, emits no light, the second partial emission surface, which emits light for the first light function, continues to emit light, and the third partial emission surface, which emits no light for the first light function, emits light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreu Sola Gomfaus, Michael Werner, Michael Mueller, Mathias Thamm, Daniel Mensch, Henning Kiel
  • Patent number: 9316375
    Abstract: A light for a vehicle having a contiguous reflector (3) having a plurality of reflector surface regions (A1, A2, B) and a first light source (1) that is arranged such that the light emission thereof is reflected by a first region (A1, B) of the reflector surface of the reflector (3). The reflector (3) has an opening (5) and there is a second light source that is arranged behind a part (4) of the reflector (3) relative to the light emission direction (L) of the light and the light emission thereof hits a second region (A2) of the reflector surface of the reflector (3) through the opening (5) and is there reflected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Martin Hupel, Henning Kiel, Sebastian Haering, Sebastian Vogler
  • Patent number: 8820990
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp has at least one transparent element (10), and at least one main light source, whose emitted light passes the optical boundary layers of the at least one transparent element (10) substantially perpendicularly. The at least one transparent element (10) has at least two optical areas (12, 20, 26) with different optical indices of refraction which adjoin one another along at least one optical boundary layer (16, 24), and at least in one of the adjoining optical areas (12), whose index of refraction is greater than the index of refraction of the adjoining optical area (20, 26), the light of at least one light source is coupled via at least one light coupling point (22) into a direction pointing substantially along the at least one optical boundary layer (16, 24), and the introduced light is decoupled via at least one light decoupling point (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Berend Wegner, Henning Kiel
  • Patent number: 8523415
    Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle has a light source (1), a first reflector (2), and at least one light pane (6, 7), which are disposed so that light emitted by the light source (1) is reflected by a reflector face (3) of the first reflector (2) and forms a first lamp face (17) of the lamp. The lamp has at least one second reflector (4), the reflector face (5) thereof being disposed separately from the reflector face (3) of the first reflector (2) and the second reflector being disposed so that light emitted by the light source (1) is reflected by the reflector face (5) of the second reflector (4) and forms a second lamp face (18) of the lamp, wherein the first and the second lamp faces (17, 18) are not coherent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Henning Kiel, Mathias Thamm, Sebastian Haering
  • Publication number: 20120039085
    Abstract: A light for a vehicle having a contiguous reflector (3) having a plurality of reflector surface regions (A1, A2, B) and a first light source (1) that is arranged such that the light emission thereof is reflected by a first region (A1, B) of the reflector surface of the reflector (3). The reflector (3) has an opening (5) and there is a second light source that is arranged behind a part (4) of the reflector (3) relative to the light emission direction (L) of the light and the light emission thereof hits a second region (A2) of the reflector surface of the reflector (3) through the opening (5) and is there reflected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Martin Hupel, Henning Kiel, Sebastian Haering, Sebastian Vogler
  • Publication number: 20110103085
    Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle has a light source (1), a first reflector (2), and at least one light pane (6, 7), which are disposed so that light emitted by the light source (1) is reflected by a reflector face (3) of the first reflector (2) and forms a first lamp face (17) of the lamp. The lamp has at least one second reflector (4), the reflector face (5) thereof being disposed separately from the reflector face (3) of the first reflector (2) and the second reflector being disposed so that light emitted by the light source (1) is reflected by the reflector face (5) of the second reflector (4) and forms a second lamp face (18) of the lamp, wherein the first and the second lamp faces (17, 18) are not coherent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Henning Kiel, Mathias Thamm, Sebastian Haering
  • Publication number: 20110019431
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp has at least one transparent element (10), and at least one main light source, whose emitted light passes the optical boundary layers of the at least one transparent element (10) substantially perpendicularly. The at least one transparent element (10) has at least two optical areas (12, 20, 26) with different optical indices of refraction which adjoin one another along at least one optical boundary layer (16, 24), and at least in one of the adjoining optical areas (12), whose index of refraction is greater than the index of refraction of the adjoining optical area (20, 26), the light of at least one light source is coupled via at least one light coupling point (22) into a direction pointing substantially along the at least one optical boundary layer (16, 24), and the introduced light is decoupled via at least one light decoupling point (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Berend Wegner, Henning Kiel