Adjustable Source (e.g., Bulb Filament) Patents (Class 362/508)
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Patent number: 7033051Abstract: An infrared ray irradiation apparatus for a night vision system which is operated easily and selectively in a visible and infrared ray irradiation mode and an infrared ray irradiation mode, and irradiates infrared rays emitted from a lamp toward an area in front of a car by means of one transmission step (by a tube) and one reflection step (by a reflector), thus irradiating the infrared rays without deterioration in brightness.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2003Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Jang-Don Choi
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Patent number: 7027238Abstract: A method and an apparatus for regulating the brightness of a light source (2), configured as an incandescent lamp, in the illumination beam path (8) of a microscope (1), the brightness of the light source (2) being modifiable by increasing or reducing the electrical power delivered to the light source (2), are characterized in that a red shift, associated with the reduction in the delivered electrical power, of the spectrum of the light emitted by the light source (2) in the illumination beam path (8) is compensated for by way of a variable optical filter (16) that brings about a blue shift of the spectrum. A color-neutral regulation of the brightness of the illuminating light is thereby achieved.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2002Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Leica Microsystems Wetzlar GmbHInventor: Albrecht Weiss
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Patent number: 6866407Abstract: Vehicle headlight including a light emitting unit for emitting a light, an operating member joined with the light emitting unit, the operating member fitted with a magnet, a coil in the vicinity of the operating member for generating a magnetic field, and a housing for holding the operating member and the coil therein, thereby permitting selective lighting of a high beam for regular running at night or a low beam required in crossing an opposite vehicle by using a single light emitting unit and a simple structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2003Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignees: CPIKOREA Ltd., Tae.Kyu ParkInventor: Tae Kyu Park
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Patent number: 6824302Abstract: Due to an effect of a solenoid of a moving mechanism, when a valve and a shutter are positioned at a first position, a light source is positioned at a first light source position and a shutter is in a state of closing a window. A lighting luminous flux from a light source is reflected by a reflector so as to be irradiated as a first light distribution pattern. Thus, a part of the lighting luminous flux is introduced to the reflector from the open window. Therefore, it is possible to effectively utilize the lighting luminous flux emitted from one valve in correspondence to a light distribution pattern.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2002Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kunio Akizuki, Yasumitsu Nakabayashi
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Publication number: 20040114387Abstract: Vehicle headlight including a light emitting unit for emitting a light, an operating member joined with the light emitting unit, the operating member fitted with a magnet, a coil in the vicinity of the operating member for generating a magnetic field, and a housing for holding the operating member and the coil therein, thereby permitting selective lighting of a high beam for regular running at night or a low beam required in crossing an opposite vehicle by using a single light emitting unit and a simple structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventor: Tae Kyu Park
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Patent number: 6709130Abstract: The invention relates to a double-filament halogen incandescent lamp for a motor vehicle headlamp. In order to reduce the light shading effects caused by the filament holder, at least one of the power supply wires (8) is provided with a section (8a) that projects out of the common plane of the power supply wires (7, 8, 9) and is guided past the main filament (5), this section (8a) being shaped such that light beams that are emitted by the main filament (5) perpendicular to its filament axis are not obstructed by the power supply wire (8).Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2002Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Pätent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft fuer elektrische Gluehlampen mbHInventors: Gerhard Behr, Peter Helbig, Christian Seichter
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Publication number: 20040047152Abstract: A portable illuminator includes a transmission element with a resilient core received inside the transmission element so that the transmission element is able to be bent to any shape, a connector securely formed on a first distal end of the transmission element and having a connection portion formed with the connector for connection to a power source, and an illuminating unit formed on a second distal end of the transmission element and having therein a housing with a light emitting diode received in a compartment defined in the housing. The connection of the connection portion of the connector to the power source is able to provide electricity to the illuminating unit so that with the resilience of the transmission element, the light emitting diode is able to light an area required.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2002Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: Kuo-Jung Hung, Wei-Yuan Ho
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Publication number: 20030218884Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vehicle headlight equipped with a gas-discharge lamp, which is designed such that a high beam mode or a low beam mode is selectively operated by controlling a position of the gas-discharge lamp using a magnetic force, thus making the interior construction of the headlight compact, in addition to the prevention of frequent malfunction of the headlight. The headlight is provided with a lamp control means controlling a position of a bobbin in a housing to selectively operate the low beam mode or the high beam mode. The lamp control means includes a return spring provided in the housing to elastically bias the bobbin forward. A magnet assembly is installed in a rear portion of the housing in such a way as to be adjacent to a rear end of the bobbin. A solenoid is wound around a rear portion of the bobbin and cooperates with the magnet assembly to move the bobbin and a bulb rearward when electric power is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2002Publication date: November 27, 2003Inventor: Si Yung Kim
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Publication number: 20030202360Abstract: A movable reflector with integrally molded bulb assembly retention features. The movable reflector comprises a bore at the center of the reflector for receiving a bulb assembly and retention features integrally molded on the rear side of the reflector to retain the bulb assembly. The movable reflector further comprises mold voids spaced around the bore adjacent to the retention features and extending through the movable reflector so that the structure of the retention features and the movable reflector may be molded in one injection molding step without additional tool movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2002Publication date: October 30, 2003Applicant: Guide CorporationInventors: Kenneth L. Trimpe, Joseph C. Ballman
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Patent number: 6637914Abstract: When the vehicle body rolls to the oncoming lane, a light source bulb is turned to a direction opposite to a rolling direction to keep the posture of the light source bulb in an erect state. Accordingly, a horizontal cut-off line CL1 of a low-beam light distribution pattern P is prevented from slanting downward to the oncoming lane side. A horizontal cut-off line forming area 20a1 of a reflector 20 is formed with a plurality of reflection elements 20s1a and 20s1b and the like. Those elements are formed extending from the upper end to the lower end and slanting, at an angle of 5°, downward to the optical axis Ax1 with respect to the vertical direction. As a result, when the vehicle body rolls to the oncoming lane side, the reflection elements 20s1a and 20s1b and the like are substantially orthogonal to a light-dark borderline L1 formed by an inner shade 18c of the light source bulb, to thereby sharpen the horizontal cut-off line.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2002Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahito Naganawa
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Patent number: 6612727Abstract: A motor vehicle has left and right hand headlights, each with a reflector having a complex surface with a lamp fitted within the reflector. Each lamp has a dipped or passing beam filament and a main beam filament. The position of the main beam filament is defined by its angular position with respect to a position of origin vertically below the main axis of the lamp, on a circle centered on the main axis, the main beam filament being oriented positively in the trigonometric direction looking forward along the main axis. The angular position of each main beam filament is in the range between −90° and +90°, and is different for each headlight.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Valeo VisionInventor: Régis Nouet
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Patent number: 6585401Abstract: A sliding contact is formed by a first terminal 40 fixed to a side of a lamp base flange 2 and a second terminal 41 fixed to a side of a slider 7. Accordingly, it is possible to supply an electric current to a glass tube 9 without bending a harness 3. Therefore, a harness 3 is not deteriorated, and a resistance at a time of sliding the glass tube 9 is not increased.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2001Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kunio Akizuki, Yasumitsu Nakabayashi
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Patent number: 6558030Abstract: A motor vehicle headlight has a reflector with two focal regions, a light source in one of these focal regions producing a pool of reflected light in the other focal region, and a lens which converts the pool of light into a beam projected on the road. The headlight includes means for displacing the light source with respect to the reflector.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2001Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: Valeo VisionInventors: Eric Blusseau, Alexis Dubrovin, Benny Grigorescu, Laurent Jeannot
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Publication number: 20030067787Abstract: A vehicle lamp including a light-emitting diode and a lighting circuit for the light-emitting diode, a lamp chamber defined by a lamp body and a lens that covers the front of the lamp body, an LED circuit board which is disposed in the lamp chamber and on which the light-emitting diode and the lighting circuit are provided, and a cord for connecting the LED circuit board to an electric power supply; and in addition a limiting resistor for limiting a supply current for the light-emitting diode being provided on a part of the cord that is located outside the lamp chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2002Publication date: April 10, 2003Applicant: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tomoaki Serizawa
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Publication number: 20020159268Abstract: When the vehicle body rolls to the oncoming lane, a light source bulb is turned to a direction opposite to a rolling direction to keep the posture of the light source bulb in an erect state. Accordingly, a horizontal cut-off line CL1 of a low-beam light distribution pattern P is prevented from slanting downward to the oncoming lane side. A horizontal cut-off line forming area 20a1 of a reflector 20 is formed with a plurality of reflection elements 20s1a and 20s1b and the like. Those elements are formed extending from the upper end to the lower end and slanting, at an angle of 5°, downward to the optical axis Ax1 with respect to the vertical direction. As a result, when the vehicle body rolls to the oncoming lane side, the reflection elements 20s1a and 20s1b and the like are substantially orthogonal to a light-dark borderline L1 formed by an inner shade 18c of the light source bulb, to thereby sharpen the horizontal cut-off line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTDInventor: Masahito Naganawa
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Publication number: 20020145880Abstract: A motor vehicle has left and right hand headlights, each with a reflector having a complex surface with a lamp fitted within the reflector. Each lamp has a dipped or passing beam filament and a main beam filament. The position of the main beam filament is defined by its angular position with respect to a position of origin vertically below the main axis of the lamp, on a circle centered on the main axis, the main beam filament being oriented positively in the trigonometric direction looking forward along the main axis. The angular position of each main beam filament is in the range between −90° and +90°, and is different for each headlight.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2002Publication date: October 10, 2002Inventor: Regis Nouet
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Patent number: 6416209Abstract: A vehicle puddle light assembly is provided in an opening formed in a body panel of a vehicle. A socket including a housing and at least one contact coupled to the housing is disposed within the opening and coupled to the body panel adjacent the opening. A lamp is coupled to the contact within the housing. A lens is coupled to the socket outboard of the lamp. The lens has an opaque upper portion and a transmissive lower portion having a plurality of facets formed therein for projecting light from the assembly and a predominantly downward and outboard direction. The housing includes a reflective upper portion for directing radiation from the lamp toward the transmissive portion of the lens and a reflective lower portion for directing radiation from the lamp toward a reflective surface of the lens formed inboard of the opaque upper portion. The radiation is then redirected toward the reflective upper portion of the housing and then toward the transmissive portion of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2000Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: DaimlerChrysler CorporationInventor: Glenn W Abbott
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Publication number: 20020024819Abstract: In first to third support wires (12, 13, 14) connected to a low beam filament L and a high beam filament H, which are arranged in the light source bulb 9, a bent portion 13a is formed by bending the second support wire 13 from a curved portion 13c towards the first support wire at an obtuse angle &thgr;2, and each rear lead Lb, Hb of the low beam filament L and the high beam filament H is connected to the bent portion 13a.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2001Publication date: February 28, 2002Applicant: ICHIKOH INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Akihito Inoue, Yasuhiro Okubo
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Publication number: 20020001197Abstract: A motor vehicle headlight has a reflector with two focal regions, a light source in one of these focal regions producing a pool of reflected light in the other focal region, and a lens which converts the pool of light into a beam projected on the road. The headlight includes means for displacing the light source with respect to the reflector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2001Publication date: January 3, 2002Inventors: Eric Blusseau, Alexis Dubrovin, Benny Grigorescu, Laurent Jeannot
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Patent number: 6325528Abstract: A motor vehicle headlight assembly switchable between low-beam and high-beam modes of operation includes a housing, a reflector component mounted in the housing for displacement relative thereto between a plurality of beam aiming positions, and a light source component mounted in the housing for movement relative to the reflector component between a low-beam position and a high-beam position. A motor is provided for displacing the reflector component between the plurality of beam aiming positions relative to the housing. To selectively move the light source component between, and for holding the light source component in at least one of, its low-beam and high-beam positions relative to the reflector component, use is being made of the motor and of an electromagnet operated in sequential cooperation with the motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1999Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Erwin Wittmeier, Heinz Grimm
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Patent number: 6247835Abstract: A vehicle headlight includes a driving unit capable of repeatedly switching the headlight's light distribution pattern between a by-passing mode and a traveling mode by moving an element committed to the formation of the light distribution patterns. The driving unit includes a first spring for biasing a positioning element in a by-passing mode, a meshing gear for moving the positioning element to a traveling mode position against the bias of the first spring, a motor which supplies power to drive the meshing gear, a second spring biased in an engaging direction of the meshing gear, a solenoid for releasing the engagement of the meshing gear with a second gear against the pulling power of the second spring. The disclosed headlight enables size reduction of the driving unit, and provides improved reliability if the motor malfunctions.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1999Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hitoshi Taniuchi
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Patent number: 6186651Abstract: A projector headlamp utilizing only a single HID bulb for projecting light in a forward direction generally along a horizontal axis selectably between low beam and high beam conditions while shifting the hot spot as required between these conditions.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1999Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Edwin Mitchell Sayers, Balvantrai Patel, David Vozenilek, Jeyachandrabose Chinniah, Jose M. Cruz, Jeffrey Allen Erion, Jaroslav Purma, Milan Cejnek
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Patent number: 6152584Abstract: The improved vehicle headlight has both leveling device and beam switching device which drives bulb displacing mechanism to displace light source bulb relative to reflector along its optical axis. In addition to driving the bulb displacing mechanism to displace the light source bulb relatively in a determined amount, actuator of the leveling device is driven to tilt the reflector through a determined angle, whereby a low beam is switched to a high beam and vice versa. Compared to the conventional system that performs beam switching by merely driving the bulb displacing mechanism, the vehicle headlight enables the same bulb displacing mechanism to displace the light source bulb through simple relative movements.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1999Date of Patent: November 28, 2000Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Michio Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 6043614Abstract: A magnetic field controller has been developed, which allows magnetic deflection of the arc of an alternating current high intensity discharge (HID) lamp. The controller consists of a driving circuit and an electromagnet. The system delivers a fast switching magnetic field, which can follow the alternating current signal of an alternating current HID ballast. The method minimizes the electromagnet's inductance and uses fast reacting ferromagnetic materials (Ni--Zn ferrite). To achieve the required magnetic field, a current amplifier was developed to pick up the signal from the alternating current ballast and drive the electromagnet with up to two amperes. The alternating magnetically deflected HID lamp system allows the use of magnetic deflection for alternating current HID lamps. A vehicle headlamp system can achieve multiple beam functions (day light running, low beam and high beam) of a headlight system with only one alternating current lamp.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1998Date of Patent: March 28, 2000Assignee: Osram Sylvania Inc.Inventors: Thomas Tessnow, Robert W. Flanagan, Jr., Donald F. Garrity, Jr.
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Patent number: 5997162Abstract: The efficiency of a horizontally operated arc discharge lamp has been found to be substantially improved by the application of a transverse magnetic field. The magnetic field moves the arc downward, away from the upper wall of the lamp envelope. The magnetic field moves the arc so that the outer mantel that otherwise would make contact with side walls of the envelope stand away from the envelope wall. With the arc withdrawn from the wall, less energy is lost in heating the envelope, resulting in more energy be directed to the emission of light.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1998Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Osram Sylvania Inc.Inventors: George J. English, Michael D. Tucker, Jean M. Evans, Harold L. Rothwell
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Patent number: 5971574Abstract: An automobile headlight including a single movable light source which does not change the angle of its optical axis relative to the optical axis of the reflector. The light source is coupled to an apparatus capable of changing the position of the light source depending on the driving state of the automobile. The headlight has sufficient light distribution patterns for multiple driving conditions, such as when the automobile is traveling straight ahead, by-passing another vehicle, or carrying a heavy load, without changing the angle of the optical axis of the light source relative to the optical axis of the reflector. This allows the driver to maintain good visibility while prolonging the life of the headlight and reducing its overall size.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., LtdInventors: Hitoshi Taniuchi, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Takashi Futami
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Patent number: 5911502Abstract: The present invention provides a a headlight operable as a running light of a vehicle and, in particular, as a headlight of the vehicle for selectively projecting a low and a high beam. The headlight includes a reflector having a light source disposed therein. A beam position adjusting device operates to move the light source between its low beam position and its high beam position. The beam position adjusting device includes an electric powered drive motor and a displaceable interconnecting element interconnecting the beam position adjusting device and the light source. The device also includes a motion translation element for translating the drive output of the drive motor to displacement of the displaceable interconnecting element, the beam position adjusting device being operable to dispose the light source in its high beam position. A return movement device automatically biases the light source to move to its low beam disposition when the drive motor is not powered.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1998Date of Patent: June 15, 1999Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ulrich Zillgitt, Stefan Hammerstingl, Werner Schulze, Thilo Wagner, Andreas Hammele, Elefterios Konto