Plural Separate Reflectors With Complex Surfaces Patents (Class 362/517)
  • Patent number: 9243770
    Abstract: A lighting device may include a reflector, which can be illuminated by means of at least one light source, in particular light emitting diode, and an aperture disposed downstream of the reflector and having a rear side facing the reflector and a front side facing away from the reflector. The lighting device may include at least one additional light source for illuminating the front side of the aperture, and the front side of the aperture is covered at least in regions with at least one phosphor which is sensitive to light emitted by the at least one additional light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Schwaiger, Oliver Hering
  • Patent number: 9234646
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus contains a main housing; a reflector disposed within the main housing, and having a front side and a rear side; a heat conducting body comprising at least two heat pipes, wherein a first portion of the at least two heat pipes are parallel to a central axis of the lighting apparatus on the front side of the reflector, and a second portion of each of the at least two heat pipes is in the rear side of the reflector and is thermally coupled to the main housing; a heat conducting head located on the front side of the reflector, and is thermally coupled to the heat conducting body; at least two light-emitting diodes (“LEDs”) thermally coupled to the heat conducting body, and being positioned to face the front side of the reflector so that light emitted from the LEDs are directed to said front side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Huizhou Light Engine Ltd.
    Inventors: Tin Po Chu, Wa Hing Leung
  • Patent number: 9087441
    Abstract: A notification appliance circuit (NAC) includes notification devices having a high capacity rechargeable energy storage device such as a supercapacitor and a strobe circuit. The supercapacitor can provide energy to produce flashes over an extended time period without fully discharging. The notification devices can also make use of the fallback power strategy in which the strobe circuit operates with reduced intensity while the supercapacitor is being recharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: UTC FIRE & SECURITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dennis Michael Gadonniex, Donald Becker
  • Patent number: 9028119
    Abstract: According to another aspect of the present invention, a light system for use in a rearview mirror assembly is provided and includes a light source and a first optical element. Said first optical element has a collection optic configured to direct light received from said light source, a reflector optic in optical communication with said collection optic and configured to reflect light from said collection optic, a plurality of light steering areas configured to steer light propagating in said first optical element, and a light spreading optic configured to spread light exiting said first optical element. A second optical element is in optical communication with said first optical element and is configured to diffuse light received from said first optical element to illuminate an indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Gentex Corporation
    Inventors: Michael F. Lisowski, Danny L. Minikey, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20150117046
    Abstract: A combination lamp for use in a vehicle includes a number of reflector modules, with each reflector module including a reflector, a first light emitting diode (“LED”) positioned at a focus of the reflector, and a second LED offset from the focus of the reflector. The lamp may also include another reflector module having a reflector and a single, common LED positioned at a focus of the reflector. When the first LEDs and the common LED are energized, the combination lamp produces a first light pattern. When the second LEDs and the common LED are energized, the combination lamp produces a second light pattern. The first light pattern may be a fog lamp light pattern, and the second light pattern may be a daytime running lamp light pattern. The combination lamp may include four, five, or more reflector modules, including the one reflector module having the single, common LED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Robert T. Harrington, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20150098236
    Abstract: A headlight includes a main reflective member having an oval reflective surface which has a first focal point and a second focal point. A light source is located at the first focal point of the main reflective member. At least one additional reflector is located on one side of the main reflective member, wherein the light source is located between the main reflective member and the additional reflector. The at least one additional reflector has a curved reflective surface which has a third focal point located close to the first focal point. The light beams generated from the light source are reflected by the at least one additional reflector and pass through the third focal point and the main reflective member and move forward. The tracks of the light beams are close to that of light beams that are directly reflected by the main reflective member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: TYC BROTHER INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MIN-FENG LIN, MING-JHIH SHIH, JIN-HUA WU
  • Patent number: 8992060
    Abstract: One embodiment of a vehicle lamp assembly may include a housing, which includes a pair of opposing reflective surfaces defining a chamber therebetween. The assembly may further have a single light emitting diode (LED) disposed within the chamber and a lens carried by the housing. At least one of the reflective surfaces may have a grain pattern configured to interact the light emitted from the single LED with the housing in a range between one and five times before the housing directs the light through the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mahendra Somasara Dassanayake, Arun Kumar, Martin Witte
  • Publication number: 20150085512
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lamp device for a vehicle including a light source and an inner lens through which light which is emitted from the light source passes, in which the inner lens includes a lens unit which diffuses light which is emitted from the light source, and a light guiding unit which protrudes toward the light source from the lens unit to guide the light which is emitted from the light source to the lens unit. Light emitted from the light source is guided by the light guiding unit to be incident onto the lens unit and then is irradiated to be diffused to the outside of the vehicle so that the light distribution performance is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Jeong Yun KIM
  • Publication number: 20150070923
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes: a circuit board having three or more light source mounting portions provided along a vehicle-width direction; a plurality of light sources mounted on the respective light source mounting portions; and a reflector unit having three or more reflectors each reflecting light from each of the light sources. The reflector unit has a first positioning pin and a second positioning pin. The circuit board has a first positioning hole to receive the first positioning pin and a second positioning hole to receive the second positioning pin. The first positioning hole is provided at a location inward of a first end light source mounting portion positioned on one end side in the vehicle-width direction, and the second positioning hole is provided at a position inward of a second end light source mounting portion positioned on the other end side in the vehicle-width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro KADOWAKI
  • Publication number: 20150070924
    Abstract: A printed circuit board on which a surface mount device is mounted includes a plurality of lands respectively soldered to a plurality of electrodes of the surface mount device. The plurality of lands includes at least a pair of adjacent lands each of which has a side surface not covered with a solder resist, and the side surfaces not covered with the solder resists are opposite to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro KADOWAKI
  • Publication number: 20150062947
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lamp for a vehicle including: a lamp module including: a lens having a first focal point; a shield formed behind the lens; a first reflector formed above the shield and having a second focal point; and a second reflector formed below the shield and having a third focal point, in which an edge of the shield and the second focal point are formed to be positioned on the first focal point, and the third focal point is formed behind and below the first focal point, thereby implementing a low beam and a high beam using a single optical module and greatly reducing a size, a weight, and the number of components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyun Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 8967843
    Abstract: A vehicle headlight includes at least one stationary reflector and at least one reflector adjustable with respect to the at least one stationary reflector. The headlight includes at least two light sources including at least one LED, wherein each of the reflectors is assigned at least one of the light sources, and an assembly body for fastening the at least one stationary reflector and the at least two light sources. The assembly body includes a main body, on which the at least one stationary reflector is assembled. and an exchange body, on which the at least two light sources are fastened. The main body has a through-opening for insertion of a light source support element from the side facing away from the reflectors. Referencing or positioning means are provided on the exchange body in order to fasten the two bodies to one another in a positionally accurate manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Zizala Lichtsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Jackl, Irmgard Krenn, Markus Lahner
  • Publication number: 20150049504
    Abstract: A vehicle light apparatus includes a low-beam headlight unit, and a composite headlight unit that includes a plurality of light-emitting modules and a control module. Each light-emitting module includes a high-beam light element and a turn signal light element. The control module is electrically coupled to the light-emitting modules and the low-beam headlight unit so as to simultaneously turn off the high-beam light elements and turn on the low-beam headlight unit when the turn signal light elements are switched on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: COPLUS INC.
    Inventor: Jacob WU
  • Patent number: 8956027
    Abstract: A projector lens of a vehicular headlamp has a shape of a convex lens in which the upper and lower portions are cut by a predetermined amount. A light source is disposed above optical axis Ax of the projector lens while a light emission surface is inclined downwardly. A first reflecting mirror has an elliptical reflective surface, and is adjusted in size such that almost all the light reflected from the reflective surface is incident on the projector lens. A shield plate is disposed in the vicinity of the focus of the first reflecting mirror to form a horizontal cutoff line. A second reflecting mirror is disposed to reflect light that is not incident on the first reflecting mirror. The third reflecting mirror is disposed above the upper end of the shield plate at a position that does not interfere with the light reflected from the first reflecting mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Ishida
  • Publication number: 20150043237
    Abstract: Provided is a lamp for a vehicle. The lamp includes: a first reflector disposed above an LED array and including an elliptical reflective surface that defines a first focal point and a second focal point; and a second reflector disposed below the LED array and including a parabolic reflective surface that defines a third focal point, and may increase an amount of light in a front region and a light width region of a vehicle by utilizing the existing light source without adding a separate light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dong Gon KANG
  • Publication number: 20150043238
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp 10 includes a first parabolic high-beam condensing reflector 16b, a second parabolic high-beam condensing reflector 17c and a parabolic high-beam diffusing reflector 16a. The first and second parabolic high-beam condensing reflectors 16b, 16c forms a high-beam condensed light distribution pattern by reflecting light emitted from light sources 18b, 18c. The high-beam diffusing reflector 16a forms a high-beam diffused light distribution pattern by reflecting light emitted from a light source 18a. A part 21 of a reflection surface of the high-beam diffusing reflector 16a is located in front of front end portions of the first and second parabolic condensing reflectors 16b, 16c.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ippei YAMAMOTO, Masahito NAGANAWA
  • Patent number: 8950906
    Abstract: A multi-focal lens for a lighting device includes a central portion and multiple peripheral portions around the central portion. The central portion has a central convex refracting surface, and each peripheral portion has an oblique refracting surface and a convex refracting surface opposite to the oblique refracting surface, wherein the oblique refracting surface extends at an angle with respect to the optical axis of the multi-focal lens. The central portion and the peripheral portions share a common flat surface opposite to the refracting surfaces of the central portion and the peripheral portions. The convex refracting surface and the oblique refracting surface of each peripheral portion can change the paths of corresponding light rays refracted from the flat surface to increase the distance and area of illumination. Furthermore, the volume and thickness of the lens required for a lighting device can be reduced, so that the production cost can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Inventor: Chen-Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8939625
    Abstract: An optical device, in particular for an automotive vehicle, such as a lighting or signaling device, comprising at least one light source, and at least one light guide designed to guide at least some of the light emitted by the light source, the light guide comprising at least one output face and at least one reflection face designed to reflect, towards the output face, light being propagated in the guide, wherein the light guide exhibits a cylindrical sheet form and/or the output face is not completely planar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventor: Antoine de Lamberterie
  • Publication number: 20150023040
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a projection lens, a light source disposed to the rear of the projection lens, and an additional lens. First light from the light source is irradiated to the front through the projection lens to form a predetermined light distribution pattern. The projection lens has an elongated external shape when the lamp is seen from the front. The additional lens is disposed on a circumference of the projection lens and configured to control second light from the light source to forwardly pass through the additional lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi TATSUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150023041
    Abstract: The automotive headlight includes one or more first light emitting diodes (LEDs) and one or more second LEDs, wherein the one or more second LEDs are positioned at about 180 degrees with respect to the one or more first LEDs, wherein the headlight optical axis is about ?90 degrees with respect to a LED optical axis of the one or more first LEDs, at least one first reflector, wherein the at least one first reflector redirects light from the one or more first LEDs to an angle of about ?90 degrees with respect to a LED optical axis of the one or more first LEDs and at least one second reflector, wherein the at least one second reflector redirects light from the one or more second LEDs to an angle of about ?90 degrees with respect to the LED optical axis of the one or more first LEDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: John Patrick Peck, Cecil D. Thomas, Francisco J. Natividad
  • Publication number: 20150009698
    Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle is provided. The lamp includes an LED array in which a plurality of LEDs is aligned at the same position based on an illumination direction, an aspherical lens which is disposed in front of the LED array, and a plurality of reflectors on the plurality of LEDs so as to reflect light emitted from the LEDs to the aspherical lens, in which a distance from a rear end to a front end of the reflector based on the illumination direction becomes greater as the reflector is disposed farther away from an optical axis that passes through a focal point of the aspherical lens, and the lamp reduces an aberration so as to prevent a light blurring phenomenon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seong Yeon HAN
  • Publication number: 20150003098
    Abstract: An illumination device of a motor vehicle has a lamp module formed from at least one light source unit, which includes at least one light source that emits a light radiation to generate a running light distribution. An optical component deflects a part of the emitted light radiation in such a way that a depiction of the at least one light source unit is able to be generated outside of the running light distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Daimier AG
    Inventor: Alexis Bony
  • Patent number: 8920009
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lamp device for a vehicle, which includes: a lens disposed on a first optical axis extending to a front and a rear of the vehicle; a main reflector disposed at a rear side of the lens, reflecting light frontward, and including a first focus on the first optical axis; a light source disposed on the first focus, and emitting light; a lower sub reflector disposed below the light source, upwardly reflecting the light, and including a first focus on a point at which the first optical axis and a second optical axis extending above and below the vehicle intersect; an upper sub reflector disposed above the light source, and frontwardly reflecting the light reflected by the lower sub reflector; and a shield plate disposed between the lens and the light source, and disposed to correspond to a second focus of the main reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Gun woo Park
  • Patent number: 8920011
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with a semiconductor-type light source 2 and a reflector 3. The reflector 3 has reflection surfaces 31U to 31D. The semiconductor-type light source 2 is disposed at or near a reference focal point F of the reflection surfaces 31U to 31D. The reflection surfaces 31U to 31D are divided into upper and lower sides in a direction in which light is to be radiated from the semiconductor-type light source 2, with respect to an X axis passing through a center O of the semiconductor light source 2 or its proximity. Among the upper and lower reflection surfaces, on the upper side, convergent scattering reflection surfaces 31U to 34U are disposed, and on the lower side, divergent scattering reflection surfaces 31D to 34D are disposed. As a result, the present invention is capable of forming an approximately ideal light distribution pattern HPA for high beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Okubo
  • Patent number: 8905576
    Abstract: Certain disclosed embodiments use two substantially hemispherical illumination sources, mounted on a mount that allows the illumination sources to illuminate both sides of the reflector, allowing both halves of the reflector, with 2 pi rotation, to be used for generating the lighting distribution. This system and method both increases the amount of light collected and increases the efficiency of the illumination source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Grote Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert J. Bolander, Jr., Brian K. Norris
  • Patent number: 8894258
    Abstract: An LED optical assembly for automotive low-beam headlamps, including: a lens, a lens frame, a light source frame assembly, and an LED light source. The lens includes a main lens and a plurality of reflectors. The main lens is located in the front of the LED optical assembly and the reflectors are scattered therearound. At one side of the main lens, four sets of the reflectors, which are symmetrical in shape, are respectively disposed at the left part and the right part thereof, and in a back of the main lens, six sets of the reflectors, which are symmetrical in shape, are respectively disposed at the left part and the right part thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Tianjin Foncol Science & Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xinghua Cheng
  • Patent number: 8888344
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp unit comprising a cylindrical lens arranged on an optical axis extending in a front-back direction of the vehicle lamp unit, a semiconductor light-emitting element arranged on the optical axis behind a rear focal line of the cylindrical lens, and a reflector, which comprises a right concave curved surface located in a right side region of the reflector, and a left concave curved surface is located in a left side region of the reflector, wherein each of the right and left concave curved surfaces comprises an inner reflecting surface near the optical axis, wherein the light reflected by the inner reflecting surface of the right concave curved surface is directed to the left side region across the optical axis, and the light reflected by the inner reflecting surface of the left concave curved surface is directed to the right side region across the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Tatsukawa
  • Publication number: 20140321149
    Abstract: A tail light device for a vehicle is provided in which a stop lamp, blinkers and a tail lamp are arranged in a common housing. The device allows for reducing component parts and making the device smaller. There are provided a stop lamp reflector for reflecting light through an inner surface thereof from a light source for a stop lamp, and a blinker reflector for reflecting light through an inner surface thereof from a light source for a blinker. The stop lamp reflector and the blinker reflector are attached to the housing in such a way as to be spaced apart from each other. Tail lamp reflection surfaces for reflecting light from the light source for the tail lamp, are formed on outer surfaces of the stop lamp reflector and the blinker reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hayato Ohashi, Ryuhei Soeta, Eikichi Momma
  • Patent number: 8870425
    Abstract: In a lamp body, a second reflective surface, which reflects light reflected from a first reflective surface to a front side again so as to emit the light toward the front side, is formed on a back surface of a lens main body; fixing portions protrude outward from an outer peripheral portion of the lens main body and are fixed to a seating section; the first reflective surface is formed in a shape of a band which extends in one direction and of which both end portions reach the outer peripheral portion of the lens main body; constricted portions, which are recessed inward, are formed at the outer peripheral portion of the lens main body near at least one of the both end portions of the first reflective surface; and the fixing portions are disposed in the constricted portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd, Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Furukawa, Hitoshi Aoki, Koji Fukura, Daisen Kojima, Naoki Akita, Taku Saito, Hidemi Tanaka, Seiji Hasegawa, Kosuke Shiohama
  • Patent number: 8858049
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting unit can be configured to allow the brightnesses of light observed through vertically arranged lenses to substantially match when the lenses are viewed from a certain viewpoint in front of the vehicle. The vehicle lighting unit can include: a first lens on a first upper optical axis; a second lens on a second lower optical axis; a semiconductor light-emitting device; a first revolved ellipsoidal reflector; a shade; a second revolved ellipsoidal reflector; and a third reflector. The third reflector is inclined at an inclination angle with respect to the horizontal plane adjusted such that light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting device, reflected by the second reflector, focused at a second focal point of the second reflector, reflected by the third reflector, and passing through the second lens is directed in a direction at a predetermined upward angle with respect to the horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sekiguchi, Kazuyuki Shimada
  • Patent number: 8858050
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp having first and second light source units disposed behind a projection lens is provided. In the second light source unit, light from a second light source disposed at a position lying further downward than the position of an optical axis of the projection lens is reflected toward the projection lens by a reflection surface of a second reflector disposed to extend downward from a front end edge of a shade. In this case, an upper area of the projection lens is configured such that light from a rear focus of the upper area of the projection lens is emitted further downward than emission light from a general area other than the upper area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ippei Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140301100
    Abstract: An optical device for a motor vehicle, notably a lighting and/or signaling device for a motor vehicle, comprising a surface light source, wherein the device comprises a light beam shaping member which deflects first light rays of the beam emitted by one face of the surface light source, this member not deflecting second light rays of the beam emitted by the same face of the surface light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Valeo Vision
    Inventor: Pierre Albou
  • Patent number: 8851728
    Abstract: A vehicle headlamp includes: a light-emitting module; a control circuit section for controlling a lighting of the light-emitting module; and a reflector including a reflecting face configured to reflect and collect light emitted from the light-emitting module. The control circuit section includes an opposing portion that is opposed to the reflecting face. The opposing portion is disposed at a position away from an optical path of light to be collected by the reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Matsumoto, Tetsuya Suzuki, Tomoyuki Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20140268851
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include head and tail lights with and without heat sinks and kits made therefrom for golf carts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Red Hawk LLC
    Inventor: E. Gillet BOYCE
  • Publication number: 20140268850
    Abstract: A modular headlamp assembly includes low beam headlamp module for providing illumination in a predetermined light distribution pattern. The low beam headlamp module includes a low beam heat sink and mounting assembly having a low beam heat sink portion with first and second sides. A low beam reflector member is attached to the low beam heat sink and mounting assembly such that the low beam heat sink portion bisects the reflector low beam member into first and second segments. A plurality of LED light sources is supported by the low beam heat sink portion. The reflector assembly and plurality of LED light sources produce a light distribution pattern extending at least 40 degrees in a first horizontal direction and at least 40 degrees in a second horizontal direction, with the light distribution pattern having a sharp horizontal cutoff line parallel to and below a horizon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: MICHAEL P. MARLEY, RYAN SMITH, AMIR FALLAHI
  • Patent number: 8801246
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle lamp, including a reflector reflecting light of a light guide, wherein the reflector includes a first reflection surface and a second reflection surface forming an inner circumferential surface, together with at least a part of a light emitting surface of the light guide and the inner circumferential surface is converged in a direction opposite to an irradiation direction to form a convergent point. By this configuration, it is possible to reduce manufacturing costs and manufacturing man hour of the vehicle lamp while increasing aesthetic appearance of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ban Suk Choi
  • Patent number: 8803728
    Abstract: A millimeter wave radar-equipped headlamp includes a millimeter wave radar that detects an object ahead of a vehicle, and a lighting device unit that irradiates an area ahead of the vehicle. The lighting device unit incorporates an antenna module of the millimeter wave radar. The lighting device unit includes a projection lens, a light source, a reflector, and a shade. The antenna module includes a millimeter wave waveguide, and a millimeter wave reflection mirror. A reflection surface of the millimeter wave reflection mirror is formed by a spheroidal surface having a first focal point located in the vicinity of the opening of the millimeter wave waveguide, and a second focal point located forward of the rear focal point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Electronic Navigation Research Institute, Independent Administrative Institution
    Inventors: Naruto Yonemoto, Akiko Kohmura, Yoshiki Kurosawa, Takao Watanabe, Satoshi Yamamura
  • Patent number: 8783926
    Abstract: A lamp apparatus for a vehicle may include a hollow tub having a mirror surface, an upper cover mounted at a side of the tub and having a first surface perpendicular to an axial direction of the tub, wherein the first surface includes a semi-mirror surface which divides light into a transmitted light passing to the outside and a reflected light reflected to the inside, a lower cover mounted at the other side of the tub and having a second surface perpendicular to the axial direction of the tub, wherein the second surface includes a mirror surface formed on an inner side thereof, and a plurality of point light sources mounted on the mirror surface of the lower cover, wherein light emitted from the point light sources is multiple-reflected between the semi-mirror surface of the upper cover and the mirror surface of the lower cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Japan R&D Center Inc., Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8757848
    Abstract: A double reflecting structure may include a first reflecting portion reflecting light that may be emitted from a light source, and a second reflecting portion formed on one side of the first reflecting portion to reflect again the light that may be reflected by the first reflecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: Kia Motors Corporation, SL Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Ho Na, Seong Je Kang
  • Patent number: 8746939
    Abstract: A light assembly for motor vehicles includes a body made of a light-transmitting material. The light-transmitting material preferably includes a front light-emitting surface, and a plurality of rear surface portions that provide for inward reflection of light from a plurality of LEDs or other light sources. The reflective surface portions may be in the form of truncated parabolas having flat upper, lower, and/or side surfaces to reduce the overall height and/or width of the light assembly. The reflective surfaces can be oriented at off-axis relative to a vehicle axis to provide a specific beam intensity and direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Preston Williams, Mahendra Somasara Dassanayake
  • Patent number: 8714793
    Abstract: A headlight is disclosed, having separate low-beam and high beam housings. The high-beam housing includes four planar inward-facing reflectors, in the shape of a pyramid, with the high-beam LED array at the apex and a plano-convex high-beam lens at the base. The low-beam housing includes three planar inward-facing reflectors along the top and lateral sides, similarly arranged as three sides of a pyramid. The low-beam housing has one or more planar, horizontal upward-facing reflectors, disposed below the longitudinal axis of the low-beam housing. Light propagating downward from the low-beam LED array directly strikes either the incident face of the low-beam lens or exactly one upward-facing reflector. When viewed from the front of the low-beam housing, the upward-facing reflectors resemble steps that descend from a lower edge of the low-beam LED array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventor: Lawrence M. Rice
  • Patent number: 8708533
    Abstract: A bicycle lighting fixture includes a housing defining therein an accommodation chamber, a reflector mounted in the accommodation chamber and a light source mounted in the accommodation chamber for emitting light onto the reflector. The reflector provides a curved reflecting surface facing toward the outside of the accommodation chamber and defining a plurality of reflecting surface areas at different elevations and a terrace surface connected between each two adjacent reflecting surface areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Shou Meng Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung-Chou Tsao
  • Patent number: 8690405
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting unit is capable of improving the design freedom (such as that for forming a high-beam light distribution pattern) and to allow an observer to visually recognize the employed projection lens even when including a plurality of lens portions (including a plurality of rear-side focal points) as a single lens with high aesthetic feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20140078768
    Abstract: An illuminating module for a motor vehicle lamp able to form a wide light beam containing a cutoff, which module is equipped with optical elements comprising an output lens and a plurality of concave reflectors associated with a deflector having a reflective face intended to deflect light beams generated by light sources located in the concavities of the reflectors. The output lens is a toric lens, and these optical elements are arranged in order to make the light beams generated by said light sources converge on points of focus before these light beams are transmitted through the output lens. The module comprises two reflectors (102, 102?) oriented toward each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: Antoine de Lamberterie, Ziyed Thabet
  • Publication number: 20140071705
    Abstract: The present invention provides a head lamp unit for vehicle in which a head lamp and a position lamp are housed in a housing in which a cover lens is mounted on the front surface of a lamp body, wherein a position lamp emitter is arranged to be hidden by a head lamp reflector, seen from the front, wherein a position lamp reflection surface reflecting a light emitted from the position lamp emitter to guide the light to the front of the housing is provided around the head lamp reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kaoru KOUCHI
  • Patent number: 8662706
    Abstract: A lamp unit includes: a light source array including a plurality of light sources aligned into an array; a mount portion on which the light source array is to be mounted; a first reflecting mirror configured to reflect light from the light sources, wherein the first reflecting mirror is parabolic cylindrical or hyperbolic cylindrical and is provided at least either above and below the light source array; and an optical member configured to project direct light from the light sources and reflected light from the first reflecting mirror to the front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Motohiro Komatsu
  • Patent number: 8651716
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Pierre Albou, Vanesa Sanchez
  • Patent number: 8641239
    Abstract: A lighting assembly utilizing a reflective body for use with a light source to uniformly disperse the light from the light source. The reflective body includes a lower array of first reflectors arranged about a central axis. Each of the first reflectors form an obtuse angle with the next adjacent first reflector. The reflective body also includes an upper array of second reflectors arranged about the central axis. Each of said second reflectors include a left face and a right face. The upper array defines obtuse angles between next adjacent second reflectors. Additionally, reflex angles are defined between the left and right faces of the second reflectors. The combination of angles evenly disperse the light supplied from the light source to provide a pleasant glow for illuminating an area below the lighting assembly without causing hot spots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Best Lights, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary D. Yurich
  • Publication number: 20140022809
    Abstract: A lighting device may include: at least one two-dimensional semiconductor light source, at least one reflector unit, which can be switched between a plurality of reflector settings, wherein in a first reflector setting, a first reflector surface of the reflector unit can be illuminated by the at least one semiconductor light source, and in a second reflector setting, a second reflector surface of the reflector unit can be illuminated by the at least one semiconductor light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Juergen Hager
  • Patent number: 8632233
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting device is provided which is capable of merely changing a shade, thereby using a first reflector and a second reflector as they are, to cope with a variety of light distribution pattern specifications, and which is capable of avoiding deformation of a shade due to a thermal effect even if incidence of sunlight going back has optically focused on the shade. In a heat sink member 40, there are arranged: a semiconductor-type light source 10; a first reflector 21 covering the semiconductor-type light source 10 therewith; a second reflector 22 for causing the reflected light from the first reflector 21 so as to be made incident thereto and then reflecting the incident light forward of the lighting device; and a shade 30 for shading a part of the reflected light from the first reflector 21 so as to be made incident to the second reflector 22. The shade 30 is configured as another member independent of the first and second reflectors 21, 22, and is arranged in the heat sink 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki Kawamura