A lighting system for a motor vehicle includes a printed circuit board equipped with light emitting diodes for emitting light beams in lighting directions and an optical module formed to propagate and transmit the light beams. The optical module has a reception surface to receive the light beams and an emission surface for retransmitting the light beams. The lighting system also includes at least one element for masking the light beams emitted by the light emitting diodes. The element for masking which extends from at least one of the light emitting diodes toward the reception surface and substantially parallel to the lighting direction of the at least one light emitting diode, over at least a part of the periphery of the at least one light emitting diode and over at least a part of a distance separating the at least one light emitting diode and the reception surface.

A vehicle light assembly is provided that exhibits a colored appearance when in an unlit state. The vehicle light assembly comprises: a housing; one or more light sources mounted in the housing; and a light guide configured to receive light from the one or more light sources and project the light outwardly from the light guide. The light guide includes a first segment proximate to the one or more light sources and a second segment distal from the one or more light source, such that the light from the one or more light sources passes through the first segment of the light guide before passing through the second segment of the light guide. Of note, the first segment is comprised of a colorless material; whereas, at least a portion of the second segment is comprised of a colored material.

The invention relates to a device for generating light, in particular for a vehicle passenger compartment ceiling lamp (100), comprising: a separating tube (7) made of a material that is opaque to the radiation used, which is intended to be placed in an aperture (101) forming an exit for the illuminating light, is tubular along an axis orthogonal to the aperture and is of “c”-shaped radial cross section, forming an axial window (71), a bounding light guide (53) encircling the separating tube (7) having an annular exit dioptric interface (55), a base (57) in the axial extension of the exit dioptric interface, axial extensions (59), extending axially at least in segments the base (57), comprising entrance dioptric interfaces (61), which are placed facing bounding light sources (51), an illuminating light guide (33), which is located axially facing the illuminating light source (31) of the separating tube and axially removed from the aperture (101) comprising an entrance dioptric interface (35), which is placed facing an illuminating light source (31), a total reflection surface (39), from which light entering via the entrance dioptric interface (35) is reflected at a predefined angle of inclination with respect to the normal to the entrance dioptric interface (35), and an exit dioptric interface (37), via which the light reflected from the total reflection surface (39) is emitted in the direction of the aperture (101).

The present utility model provides an optical element, comprising: a light entry surface; a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface; a light exit surface; and at least one connecting surface, located between the first reflective surface and/or the second reflective surface on the one hand and the light exit surface on the other, wherein the connecting surface at least partly comprises an enhanced reflection part for expanding a maximum exit angle of emergent light exiting via the light exit surface. Advantages: there is no need to process a surface at the light exit surface, so the range of applicability of the optical element is increased; moreover, the optical element according to the present utility model has a greater distance between the light exit surface and light entry surface thereof, i.e. can be thicker, so the optical element can adapt to a greater variety of shapes.

A lighting device disclosed in an embodiment of the invention includes a substrate; light sources disposed on the substrate; and a resin layer disposed on the substrate and the light sources. a first reflective layer disposed on the resin layer, wherein the resin layer includes an exit surface facing the light sources, and the exit surface of the resin layer includes convex portions facing each of the light sources and recess portions respectively disposed between the plurality of convex portions, concave surfaces disposed in each of the plurality of recess portions may have a curvature, and a radius of curvature of the concave surfaces may increase in one direction.

A lighting device for emitting illumination light includes an LED configured to emit light emitting diode radiation, a laser configured to emit laser radiation, and a phosphor element configured to at least partly convert the LED radiation and the laser radiation into a conversion light which at least proportionally forms the illumination light. The LED, the laser and the phosphor element are arranged relative to one another in such a way that during the operation of the lighting device on an incidence surface of the phosphor element in each case in the time integral the LED irradiates an LED irradiation surface with the light emitting diode radiation and the laser irradiates a laser irradiation surface with the laser radiation. The laser irradiation surface and the LED irradiation surface are free of overlap.

The invention relates to a device for generating light, in particular for a vehicle passenger compartment ceiling lamp (100), comprising: a separating tube (7) made of a material that is opaque to the radiation used, which is intended to be placed in an aperture (101) forming an exit for the illuminating light, is tubular along an axis orthogonal to the aperture and is of “c”-shaped radial cross section, forming an axial window (71), a bounding light guide (53) encircling the separating tube (7) having an annular exit dioptric interface (55), a base (57) in the axial extension of the exit dioptric interface, axial extensions (59), extending axially at least in segments the base (57), comprising entrance dioptric interfaces (61), which are placed facing bounding light sources (51), an illuminating light guide (33), which is located axially facing the illuminating light source (31) of the separating tube and axially removed from the aperture (101) comprising an entrance dioptric interface (35), which is placed facing an illuminating light source (31), a total reflection surface (39), from which light entering via the entrance dioptric interface (35) is reflected at a predefined angle of inclination with respect to the normal to the entrance dioptric interface (35), and an exit dioptric interface (37), via which the light reflected from the total reflection surface (39) is emitted in the direction of the aperture (101).

An illumination device includes a light source and a light guide including a first light guide portion and a second light guide portion. The second light guide portion contains a light-emitting face, and the excitation light emitted by the light source is coupled and enters the first light guide portion and is emitted via the light-emitting face of the second light guide portion. The area of the cross section, perpendicular to a light guide central line, of the second light guide portion is gradually decreased in the direction of an optical axis of the light source. An angle between an intersecting line of the light-emitting face of the second light guide portion and the cross section passing through the light guide central line or any tangent line of the intersecting line and the light guide central line is an acute angle.

An automotive LED lamp having a light guide (28) having a single central bore (29) defined by a cylindrical wall (26) and an outer surface (31) defined by a plurality of outer wall segments (35) bounding, as seen in cross-section transverse the optical axis (18) a regular polygonal shape having more than four sides. The outer polygonal shape has between five sides and sixteen sides, preferably a ten-sided decagon.

An emblem for a vehicle comprises: (a) a light source configured to emit visible light; (b) a cover assembly disposed over the light source, the cover assembly having an inner surface, an outer surface, and a transparent portion that is transparent to the visible light, the visible light being incident to the inner surface, and the visible light that the light source emits transmitting through the transparent portion out of the outer surface to an external environment beyond the emblem; and (c) one or more surface relief patterns disposed on the cover assembly, the one or more surface relief patterns configured to manipulate (i) the visible light that the light source emits, (ii) visible light from the external environment, or (iii) both (i) and (ii).