Patents by Inventor Rainer Wuestenhagen

Rainer Wuestenhagen 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).

  • Headlight for vehicle for producing a low beam and at least one light beam with greater range with safety device for monitoring adjustment of relative position between light source and reflector
    Patent number: 6527424
    Abstract: A headlight for a vehicle for producing a low beam and at least one light beam with a greater distance, the headlight comprising a light source, a reflector, the light source and the reflector together forming a headlight unit, an electrically adjusting device for changing a relative position between the light source and the reflector, a light width adjusting device for turning the headlight insert about an at least approximately horizontally extending axis, and a safety device operative for monitoring at least indirectly an operation of the adjusting device and in the case of an error when the adjusting device operates not in an orderly manner, the safety device reduces an electric power with which the light source is operated and/or reduces a distance of a light beam produced by the headlight unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn, Michael Hamm, Walter Thieringer, Rainer Wuestenhagen, Doris Boebel
  • Headlight for vehicle for producing a low beam and at least one light beam with greater range
    Publication number: 20020075693
    Abstract: A headlight for a vehicle for producing a low beam and at least one light beam with a greater distance, the headlight comprising a light source, a reflector, the light source and the reflector together forming a headlight unit, an electrically adjusting device for changing a relative position between the light source and the reflector, a light width adjusting device for turning the headlight insert about an at least approximately horizontally extending axis, and a safety device operative for monitoring at least indirectly an operation of the adjusting device and in the case of an error when the adjusting device operates not in an orderly manner, the safety device reduces an electric power with which the light source is operated and/or reduces a distance of a light beam produced by the headlight unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn, Michael Hamm, Walter Thieringer, Rainer Wuestenhagen, Doris Boebel