F21S41/295

Automotive lighting and/or signaling device

A lighting and/or signaling device comprising a container body which delimits a containment seat that houses a first luminous source adapted to emit a first luminous beam, and a second luminous source adapted to emit a second luminous beam. The containment seat adapted to be at least partially crossed by the luminous beams produced by said luminous sources, so as to transmit the luminous beams outside the containment seat. The containment seat is divided into a first compartment which houses the first luminous source and into a second compartment which houses the second luminous source. The lenticular body comprises a first transmission portion, facing the first compartment that transmits, at least partially, towards the outside the first luminous beam, a second transmission portion facing the second compartment that transmits, at least partially, towards the outside the second luminous beam. An opaque portion, is interposed between the first and second transmission portions so as to conceal the view of the first and second luminous sources.

LIGHTING DEVICE AND PRODUCTION METHOD

A lighting device for vehicles having a light source apparatus for emitting light, having an optical apparatus, which contains a lens arrangement with a multiplicity of lenses, for deflecting the light in accordance with a specified light distribution, and having a positioner for adjusting a lens along an optical axis of the lens arrangement, wherein the positioner is implemented as an apparatus for setting basic scatter width in such a manner that light can be projected in different scatter widths for a specified basic lighting function.

LAMP UNIT
20230097767 · 2023-03-30 ·

This lamp unit is configured to radiate light, frontward of the unit via a projection lens (72), that comes from a light source (52) and that has been reflected by a spatial light modulator (30). In this case, of three lenses, a first lens (72A) to a third lens (72C), constituting the projection lens (72), the third lens (72C) located on a rearmost side of the unit is configured by a glass lens, and the other lenses are configured by resin lenses.

VEHICLE LIGHTING
20230100039 · 2023-03-30 · ·

A projection lens has a first lens body including a first incidence section located at a side facing a first light source and an emission section located at a side opposite to the first incidence section, and a second lens body including a second incidence section located at a side facing the second light source, a refractive index of the second lens body is smaller than a refractive index of the first lens body, and a structure in which the first lens body and the second lens body abut each other while having first boundary surfaces, which are provided between the emission section and the second incidence section, and second boundary surfaces, which are provided between the first incidence section and the second incidence section from a boundary line with respect to the first boundary surfaces, interposed therebetween is provided.

Illumination Apparatus for a Motor Vehicle Headlight
20220349545 · 2022-11-03 ·

The invention relates to an illumination device (10) for a motor vehicle headlight, which illumination device (10) has at least one projection device (100), which projection device (100) is arranged on a support frame (50) of the illumination device (10), wherein the at least one projection device (100) comprises the following: at least one micro-optics array (200), which has a plurality of micro-optics (210) arranged in a matrix-like manner in a plane orthogonal to a main emission direction (X) of the projection device (100), at least one substrate layer (300), on which the at least one micro-optics array (200) is arranged, wherein the at least one micro-optics array (200) is arranged on an optically active section (310) of the substrate layer (300), which optically active section (310) is at least partially light-permeable, at least one light source (400), which is designed to emit light beams, wherein the light beams are coupled into the optically active section (310) of the substrate layer (300) and coupled out through the at least one micro-optics array (200) in front of the illumination device (10) as light distribution, wherein the substrate layer (300) comprises an edge section (320) surrounding the optically active section (310) and projecting in a partially planar extension of the optically active section (310), wherein the edge section (320) is attached to the support frame (50) at least in sections by means of an adhesive (500).

Vehicle lamp, lamp unit, and reflector module

To provide a vehicle lamp that, without providing an additional light blocking member, is capable of blocking light emission that is not routed via a lens or reflector for light distribution control, with a simple and compact configuration. It is provided with a first substrate 61b on which a first light source 61a is mounted that emits first light L1 towards the front of the lamp, a second substrate 62b provided in non-parallel to the first substrate 61b, wherein a second light source 62a for emitting second light L2 in a direction different from the direction of the first light L1 is mounted on the second substrate, and a rotating reflector 8 that rotates a reflective surface about a rotating shaft, the reflective surface reflecting the second light L2, wherein part of the first light L1 is blocked by a protruding portion 62c provided where one end of the second substrate 62b protrudes in the direction of emission of the first light L1 beyond the point of intersection where the extension of the first substrate 61b intersects the second substrate 62b.

Multi-Mode Lights

A system may have lights. A light may include a first light source and a first reflector configured to provide lighting for a high-beam mode and for a low-beam mode. The light may include a second light source and a second reflector configured to provide lighting for a cornering light mode. The lighting provided by the first light source and the lighting provided by the second light source may pass through the same headlight lens aperture. A light blocking structure may provide a cutoff pattern that define the illumination pattern of the low-beam lighting and the cornering lighting. One or more additional light sources may be provided to boost the intensity of a hot spot for high-beam lighting.

Configurable lighting system with shared lens and first and second internal optics forming a first and second module configuration for providing two different lighting functions

A configurable vehicle lighting module system includes a shared lens that provides a first light pattern for a first vehicle lighting function and a second light pattern for a second vehicle lighting function. The shared lens includes a mounting axis as a reference for mounting on a vehicle. First internal optics direct light toward the shared lens to provide the first light pattern; second internal optics direct light toward the shared lens to provide the second light pattern. A coupling system joins the shared lens with either the first internal optics to form a first module configuration for the first vehicle lighting function or with the second internal optics to form a second module configuration for the second vehicle lighting function. The shared lens conceals physical differences between internal optics configurations such that the first and second light module configurations appear the same when viewed along the shared lens.

HEADLIGHT OPTICAL ELEMENT, HEADLIGHT MODULE, VEHICLE HEADLIGHT AND VEHICLE

The present disclosure relates to a vehicle lighting system, and discloses a headlight optical element. The headlight optical element includes a light incident portion, a transmission portion and a light emergent portion. The light incident portion includes at least one light incident structure; the transmission portion is arranged between the light incident portion and the light emergent portion, and includes a light transmitting portion located at the center, and light absorbing portions located on the periphery; and the light emergent portion includes a light emergent surface protruding outwards. The headlight optical element has the advantages of simple structure and convenient dimming. The present disclosure further discloses a headlight module adopting the headlight optical element, a vehicle headlight including the headlight module, and a vehicle adopting the vehicle headlight.

Illumination Device of a Motor Vehicle Headlamp
20220325863 · 2022-10-13 ·

Lighting device of a motor vehicle headlamp, comprising a lens (1, 10) and at least one light source (2), wherein a lighting pattern (LI) can be generated by the at least one light source (2), wherein the lighting pattern (LI) generated by the light source (2) can be projected in front of the lighting device in the form of a light distribution by means of the lens (1, 10), wherein the lens (1, 10) has at least one projection optics (3, 30, 31) and one projection optics holder (4, 40), wherein at least one receiving means (5, 50, 51) is designed in the projection optics holder (4, 40), wherein the at least one receiving means (5, 50, 51) corresponds to the at least one projection optics (3, 30, 31), the at least one projection optics (3, 30, 31) is accommodated in the at least one receiving means (5, 50, 51), wherein a reference point system (6, 60, 61) is defined in the at least one receiving means (5, 50, 51) for determining a position of the projection optics (3, 30, 31) accommodated in this receiving means (5, 50, 51) in such a way that the lighting pattern (LI) is essentially located in a focal plane of the lens (1, 10), wherein reference points (6-1 to 6-6, 60-1 to 60-16, 61-1 to 61-10) of the reference point system (6, 60, 61) are arranged according to the 3-2-1 rule, wherein the at least one receiving means (5, 50, 51) is closed by means of a closing element (7, 70) in such a way that the at least one projection optics (3, 30, 31) is fixed and held in the at least one receiving means (5, 50, 51) in the position determined by the reference point system (6, 60, 61).