Abstract: A device for projecting a light beam and having a mechanical actuator, notably for a motor vehicle, including an array of light sources able to emit light rays in order to form the light beam along an optical axis, each light source defining a component of the light beam which has an angle of resolution defined in a plane, the device including moreover a mechanical actuator configured for displacing at least one element of the device in such a way that the optical axis of the light beam is moved between at least two projection directions at a specified frequency of displacement, the projection directions forming between them an angle of displacement substantially coplanar with the angle of resolution, the angle of displacement being equal to a fraction of the angle of resolution of the beam.

Abstract: This monolithic light source for a motor-vehicle lighting module includes an emission area formed by a plurality of emitting elements and configured so that the emitting elements are arranged in at least three selectively activatable segments, these at least three selectively activatable segments including a first segment and a second segment, which are symmetric to each other with respect to a plane of symmetry and which have a contact zone that extends along this plane of symmetry, and a third section, which extends from one end of this contact zone and which extends symmetrically on either side of the plane of symmetry.

Abstract: An optical module for a motor vehicle including a light source, a heat sink including a plate having a front face for supporting the light source, and including a rear face spiked with cooling fins, a device for producing an airflow. The heat sink includes at least one vent which passes through the plate of the heat sink in proximity to the light source in order to allow the airflow to circulate longitudinally between the front and the rear of the heat sink.

Abstract: A lighting system includes a first projector to project a first beam and a second projector to project a second beam, the first and second beams being combined to create a total beam. Each of the first and second beams comprises at least one light bundle, each of the at least one light bundle comprising a plurality of elementary bundles, each comprising a first and a second cut-off edge, and each extending substantially in a quarter plane delimited by said first and said second cut-off edges. The plurality of elementary bundles of a same light bundle partially overlapping and arranged with respect to one another along a same orientation, so that their first cut-off edges are substantially aligned along a substantially horizontal direction and their second cut-off edges are offset angularly in pairs by a first interval along said substantially horizontal direction.

Abstract: A communication device, notably for motor vehicles, including a transmission system equipped with a light source designed to emit an initial light beam, the transmission system being configured for generating a first light beam polarized in a first direction starting from the initial light beam, the transmission system furthermore including a modulator of the direction of polarization of the first polarized light beam in such a manner as to transmit information, the device furthermore including a receiver system configured for detecting the first polarized light beam when it is polarized in the first direction and for transmitting the information.

Abstract: A motor-vehicle lighting system including a device for projecting a low beam into a projection zone, wherein the projecting device is configured so that the low beam includes a zone of lesser illumination located in the interior of the projection zone. A preferred application is the field of lighting equipment for motor vehicles.

Abstract: A semiconductor light source that includes a substrate B and a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting rods extending respectively from the substrate, and a plurality of separating walls also extending from the substrate. The separating walls are arranged between the rods in such a way as to define groups of rods, and such that at least two separating walls have a different height.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting device component that comprises a component body having at least one fastening means for fastening the component. The device has a bearing element secured to the body that is separate from the fastening means, and comprises a bearing surface. The vehicle lighting device component is intended to bear against the bearing surface when it is fastened. The bearing element and the body are designed such that the bearing surface is able to move with respect to the body. The device also comprises a damper that is able to damp a movement of the body to move it toward or away from the bearing surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting module for a headlight for lighting in light segments of a motor vehicle, as well as to a headlight comprising modules in accordance with the invention. The modules according to the invention are characterized in that they allow the creation of headlights that have a continuous external projection surface and implement a lighting function in segments, such as in strips, through the juxtaposition of identical modules.

Abstract: A lighting system for a motor vehicle, which is intended for emitting a light beam. The beam comprises at least two illuminated areas, each generated by at least one light source, and optical means arranged to form a light spot from the light emitted by the light source, each spot being in the general shape of a rectangular strip of light. The system also includes at least two types of light source, referred to as first and second types of light source, the light sources of the same type having substantially the same luminance. The luminance of a light source of the first type is two to ten times higher than that of a light source of the second type.

Abstract: An optical light beam projection device, notably for a motor vehicle, includes upstream in the direction of propagation of the light rays, a set of at least two associated submatrices each provided with primary light sources capable of emitting light rays. Downstream, a primary optical system is provided with a plurality of convergent optics, at least one convergent optic being associated with each submatrix and arranged downstream thereof, the separation between the optical axes of two adjacent convergent optics corresponds respectively to the separation between the centers of the corresponding adjacent submatrices. Another subject of the invention is an optical module comprising the device and a motor vehicle headlight.

Abstract: A primary optical element for a motor vehicle lighting module that comprises a light introduction part provided with a plurality of primary optical means connected at output to a correcting part, the primary optical means being arranged on at least two levels in a first direction, as first and second distinct primary optical means. A plurality of first primary optical means are arranged in series in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. In one embodiment, a lighting module is disclosed for a motor vehicle headlight which comprises a plurality of light sources, such a primary optical element and an associated secondary optical element.

Abstract: A lighting device for an automotive vehicle comprising at least two semiconductor light sources that can be selectively activated and at least one optic for shaping at least a portion of the light rays emitted by either or both of the light sources with the aim of generating at least two lighting and/or signaling functions. The device is configured so that a first function requires the activation of the first semiconductor light source and a second function requires the activation of the second semiconductor light source. At least one of the light sources is a semiconductor light-source comprising a light-emitting rods.

Abstract: A lighting system according to the invention comprises a first projector capable of projecting a first beam and a second projector capable of projecting a second beam, in order to create a total beam by the combination of these beams. Each of the beams produces, in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis, at least one primary light bundle, the two light bundles extending in opposite orientations; each primary light bundle comprises a plurality of primary elementary bundles with a profile in the form of a “ship's sail”. The vertical cut-off edges of the elementary bundles of the same light bundle are offset angularly in pairs by a first interval along a horizontal direction. Two vertical cut-off edges for two elementary bundles belonging to each light bundle are offset angularly by a second interval, smaller than the first interval, along said substantially horizontal direction.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting device component comprising a component body comprising at least one fastening means for fastening the component, a bearing element secured to the body, separate from the fastening means, and comprising a bearing surface, the component being intended to bear against the bearing surface when it is fastened by way of its fastening means, and the bearing element and the body being designed such that the bearing surface is able to move with respect to the body, a damper designed so as to be able to damp a movement of the body, this movement of the body tending to move it toward or away from the bearing surface.

Abstract: A lighting module comprising at least one first lighting device and one second lighting device; the first lighting device comprises a support common to at least one first light emitter generating a first light strip and at least one second light emitter generating a second light strip. The first light emitter is arranged relative to second light emitter so as to generate a zone that is unlit by the first lighting device between the first light strip and the second light strip. The at least one second lighting device generates at least one third light strip that extends in the zone that is unlit.

Abstract: An optical device for a motor vehicle, comprising a first surface light source emitting light rays wherein it comprises a reflecting optical system deflecting the light rays emitted by the first surface light source.

Abstract: An optical device for a motor vehicle comprising a surface light source emitting light rays in a first direction, wherein it comprises an optical system including first deflecting optical means that are at least locally remote from the surface light source and deflecting the light rays emitted in the first direction, in a second direction different from the first direction.

Abstract: A lighting module having a flat light emitter, a reflector (R1) determined so as to create, in a plane comprising the emitter, a hot spot (S) limited by a control curve (A) contained in the plane comprising the first emitter and constituting the front or rear edge of the spot and a lens (L) determined and arranged with the reflector so as to form the first cutoff beam.

Abstract: A lighting device comprising a support for optical modules able to make a rotation movement, comprising a first optical module able to generate a light beam exhibiting a cutoff of the dipped beam type; a second optical module able to generate a light beam exhibiting a substantially L-shaped cutoff; the first optical module and the second optical module of the first lighting device being disposed on the optical module support able to make a rotation movement.