Patents by Inventor Michel Hermitte

Michel Hermitte 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: 11788701
    Abstract: Lighting device, in particular for a motor vehicle, including at least two lighting modules and at least one support member supporting the lighting modules. Each lighting module includes at least one light source capable of emitting light rays and an optical system arranged, on a specific optical axis of the lighting module, across the light rays and configured to project a light beam. The support member supporting the different lighting modules is, on the one hand, rigidly connected to a closing element incorporating at least two optical systems and, on the other hand, connected to at least a first adjustment system enabling one of the lighting modules to move independently relative to at least the other lighting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Colombel, Michel Hermitte, Sylvain Giraud
  • Publication number: 20220282845
    Abstract: Lighting device, in particular for a motor vehicle, including at least two lighting modules and at least one support member supporting the lighting modules. Each lighting module includes at least one light source capable of emitting light rays and an optical system arranged, on a specific optical axis of the lighting module, across the light rays and configured to project a light beam. The support member supporting the different lighting modules is, on the one hand, rigidly connected to a closing element incorporating at least two optical systems and, on the other hand, connected to at least a first adjustment system enabling one of the lighting modules to move independently relative to at least the other lighting module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Jean-Marc COLOMBEL, Michel HERMITTE, Sylvain GIRAUD
  • Patent number: 11221120
    Abstract: A light module includes at least one light source, a light source support, and an optical element suitable for receiving rays emitted by the light source. The optical element includes structure for positioning the optical element in a predefined position on the support and an elastic attachment device for attaching the optical element in the predefined position on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Michel Hermitte, Sebastien Bera
  • Patent number: 11168861
    Abstract: Light-emitting module, notably motor vehicle lighting and/or signaling module, including at least two sub-modules each including at least two light sources activatable selectively to each produce a segment of a partial light beam. Also included is a projection optic common to the two sub-modules for projecting said light-emitting segments. The sub-modules and the projection optic being adapted to produce a homogeneous segmented beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Michel Hermitte, Sebastien Bera, Julian Gueret
  • Patent number: 11022266
    Abstract: The invention relates to a luminous device, particularly applicable to a motor vehicle, comprising a first light source and a second light source that each emit light rays; a first collector and a second collector each include a reflective surface configured to collect and reflect the light rays emitted by the first light source and the second light source, respectively, into a first light beam and a second light beam; an optical system configured to project the first light beam and second light beam along an optical axis of the device; the optical system is configured to form a luminous image of each reflective surface of the first collector and second collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Michel Hermitte, Sylvain Giraud
  • Publication number: 20210010653
    Abstract: The invention relates to a luminous device, particularly applicable to a motor vehicle, comprising a first light source and a second light source that each emit light rays; a first collector and a second collector each include a reflective surface configured to collect and reflect the light rays emitted by the first light source and the second light source, respectively, into a first light beam and a second light beam; an optical system configured to project the first light beam and second light beam along an optical axis of the device; the optical system is configured to form a luminous image of each reflective surface of the first collector and second collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: VALEO VISION SAS
    Inventors: Michel HERMITTE, Sylvain GIRAUD
  • Publication number: 20200363033
    Abstract: A light module includes at least one light source, a light source support, and an optical element suitable for receiving rays emitted by the light source. The optical element includes structure for positioning the optical element in a predefined position on the support and an elastic attachment device for attaching the optical element in the predefined position on the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Michel HERMITTE, Sebastien BERA
  • Patent number: 10738957
    Abstract: A light module includes at least one light source, a light source support, and an optical element suitable for receiving rays emitted by the light source. The optical element includes structure for positioning the optical element in a predefined position on the support and an elastic attachment device for attaching the optical element in the predefined position on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Michel Hermitte, Sebastien Bera
  • Publication number: 20190195454
    Abstract: A light module includes at least one light source, a light source support, and an optical element suitable for receiving rays emitted by the light source. The optical element includes structure for positioning the optical element in a predefined position on the support and an elastic attachment device for attaching the optical element in the predefined position on the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Michel HERMITTE, Sebastien BERA
  • Patent number: 10267475
    Abstract: A light module includes at least one light source, a light source support, and an optical element suitable for receiving rays emitted by the light source. The optical element includes structure for positioning the optical element in a predefined position on the support and an elastic attachment device for attaching the optical element in the predefined position on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Michel Hermitte, Sebastien Bera
  • Patent number: 10065476
    Abstract: A device for controlling a lighting and/or signaling system of a vehicle that includes a controller adapted to determine a dew point temperature value inside the system from at least one value of the temperature inside the system and at least one value of the relative humidity inside the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Fabien Bonneau, Erwan Faoucher, Michel Hermitte
  • Publication number: 20180087733
    Abstract: A light module comprises at least one light source, a light source support, and an optical element suitable for receiving rays emitted by the light source. According to the invention, the optical element comprises means for positioning said optical element in a predefined position on the support and elastic attachment means for attaching said optical element in the predefined position on the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Michel HERMITTE, Sebastien BERA
  • Publication number: 20180087737
    Abstract: Light-emitting module, notably motor vehicle lighting and/or signaling module, including at least two sub-modules each including at least two light sources activatable selectively to each produce a segment of a partial light beam. Also included is a projection optic common to the two sub-modules for projecting said light-emitting segments. The sub-modules and the projection optic being adapted to produce a homogeneous segmented beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Michel HERMITTE, Sebastien BERA, Julian GUERET
  • Publication number: 20160372233
    Abstract: A motor vehicle light device comprising at least one light module and at least one electric cable, wherein at least one longitudinal portion of the electric cable is surrounded at least partly or completely by at least one protective jacket, the protective jacket being an electrically conductive polymer jacket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Erwan Faoucher, Michel Hermitte, Stephane Levasseur
  • Publication number: 20160369970
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lighting device, comprising at least one electric element and at least one first wall delimiting an area on which or in which the electric element is retained, this first wall being at least partly covered with an electrically conductive coating forming electromagnetic shielding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Erwan Faoucher, Michel Hermitte, Francois Gratecap, Michel Juton
  • Publication number: 20160303944
    Abstract: A device for controlling a lighting and/or signalling system of a vehicle that includes means adapted to determine a dew point temperature value inside the system from at least one value of the temperature inside the system and at least one value of the relative humidity inside the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Fabien Bonneau, Erwan Faoucher, Michel Hermitte
  • Publication number: 20160298226
    Abstract: A coating process and device for producing a selective metalization, comprising the deposition of a metalization layer, on a motor vehicle lighting and/or signaling device part comprises an application, prior to the metalization, of a covering film to the portions intended not to be metalized, so as to protect the portions intended not to be metalized during the vacuum metalization operation and so as to bare the non-metalized portions after removal of the covering film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Erwan Faoucher, Julien Corbineau, Michel Hermitte
  • Publication number: 20160273729
    Abstract: A lighting and/or signaling module for an automobile vehicle, the module comprising a light source e, a reflecting surface and a toroidal lens. The reflecting surface is calculated in such a manner that the rays coming from the module, reflected then transmitted by the lens, are perpendicular to and encounter a circular arc A. This geometry of the outgoing rays endows them with a toroidal wavefront which allows the principle of constancy and of reversibility of the light path (Fermat's principle) to be applied and, consequently, a straightforward calculation of the reflecting surface. The beam thus produced can notably provide a daytime running light or, alternatively, a direction indicator function. The module may comprise another lighting function of the high-beam type using another portion of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Pierre ALBOU, Michel HERMITTE
  • Patent number: 9068731
    Abstract: An automobile vehicle lighting and/or signaling device comprising an assembly of parts comprising a first part having a closed contour or an open contour, and a joining member with a first adhesive side that receives the first part so that after sticking the first part to the joining member the adhesive side has a free region adjacent the contour of the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Michel Hermitte, Nicolas Come, Jérôme Chiron
  • Publication number: 20120113659
    Abstract: An automobile vehicle lighting and/or signaling device comprising an assembly of parts comprising a first part having a closed contour or an open contour, and a joining member with a first adhesive side that receives the first part so that after sticking the first part to the joining member the adhesive side has a free region adjacent the contour of the part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Michel Hermitte, Nicolas Come, Jérôme Chiron