An IR illuminator provides infrared radiation for a digital camera that includes a camera lens including a camera field of view; also including equidistant mounting substrates arranged adjacent to the digital camera with IR LEDs mounted to each mounting substrates and a cover lens positioned over the IR LEDs. The free-form cover lens shape facilitates an emitted radiation emission pattern but prevents visible light reflectivity into the camera lens such that the IR radiation emission pattern has an asymmetric field of view. Two IR illuminators near the camera are angled away from the camera optical direction. The cover lens may be a Fresnel lens, may include a diffractive layer or a collimator to shift radiation emitted from the LED towards an asymmetric distribution.

An IR illuminator provides infrared radiation for a digital camera that includes a camera lens including a camera field of view; also including equidistant mounting substrates arranged adjacent to the digital camera with IR LEDs mounted to each mounting substrates and a cover lens positioned over the IR LEDs. The free-form cover lens shape facilitates an emitted radiation emission pattern but prevents visible light reflectivity into the camera lens such that the IR radiation emission pattern has an asymmetric field of view. Two IR illuminators near the camera are angled away from the camera optical direction. The cover lens may be a Fresnel lens, may include a diffractive layer or a collimator to shift radiation emitted from the LED towards an asymmetric distribution.

A management system for a work vehicle, includes: a traveling condition data generation unit configured to generate traveling condition data of a work vehicle having a notification device configured to notify a moving direction; a notification data generation unit configured to generate notification data for controlling the notification device such that, based on the traveling condition data, the notification device operates in a first state at a time of moving forward of the work vehicle, and the notification device operates in a second state different from the first state at a time of moving backward of the work vehicle; and an output unit configured to output the notification data, to the work vehicle.

A vehicle body component comprising a lighting means arrangement, which is configured as a LED strip being at least bendable in the longitudinal direction thereof and comprises a plurality of LEDs arranged one after the other and electrically interconnected; and a base body configured to receive the lighting means arrangement at a light exit side. Further disclosed is a method for manufacturing a body component and a method for controlling a lighting means arrangement on a vehicle.

An auxiliary lighting system for a three-wheeled motorcycle having a pair of rear wheels is disclosed, wherein the lighting system is affixed to a forward-facing portion and/or side portion of the rear fenders thereof.

An optoelectronic device comprises a layer stack, which includes a carrier layer, a cover layer, and a first layer. The first layer is in particular an intermediate layer, arranged between the cover layer and the carrier layer. At least one electronic or optoelectronic element, in particular an optoelectronic light source, is arranged on the first layer and at least one layer of the layer stack and preferably all layers of the layer stack are at least partially transparent. The layer stack comprises at least one layer which comprises particles with a high thermal conductivity and/or at least one thermally conductive layer which is arranged between two adjacent layers of the layer stack.

Disclosed are a lighting grill assembly for a vehicle and a method of manufacturing the same, the lighting grill assembly for a vehicle a grill cover, a black paint portion painted using a black paint on a rear surface of the grill cover, and the black paint portion forming a light transmitting portion through which light passes by removing a part of the painted black paint, an inner lens spaced apart from the rear surface of the grill cover in a rearward direction, and a metal layer is deposited on a surface of the inner lens, and a light source configured to radiate light from a rear of the inner lens.

The invention relates to a lighting device (1) which comprises an imaging unit (2) which is configured to generate an intermediate light image in an imaging plane (ZBE, ZBE′), wherein each imaging unit (2) is composed of a light source (3) and a collimator optics (4), wherein the collimator optics (4) are designed in such a way that the light emitted by the light source (3) in the imaging plane (ZBE, ZBE′) is imaged as an intermediate light image, and wherein the lighting device (1) comprises a projection lens (5) which has a focal plane (BE), and the imaging unit (2) and the projection device (5) are arranged with respect to one another in such a way that the imaging plane (ZBE, ZBE′) lies substantially in the focal plane (BE) of the at least one projection device (5). According to the invention, the imaging unit (2) is designed as a convergence imaging unit (2) being characterized in that the body (4A) of the collimator optics (4) is designed such that the light, which is coupled into the body (4A) via the light coupling region (41A) form a collimator body light bundle (KLB, KLB′) converging into a common virtual intermediate light image plane (VBE, VBE′), wherein the virtual intermediate light image plane (VBE, VBE′) lies in front of the imaging plane (ZBE, ZBE′) of the convergence imaging unit (2) in the direction of light propagation, and wherein a light exit surface (41C) of the body (4A) is designed in such a way that when the collimator body light bundle (KLB, KLB′) exits from the body (4A), the light beams are deflected at the light exit surface (41C) and are formed into an exit light bundle (ALB, ALB′) such that the light beams of the exit light bundle (ALB, ALB′) form the intermediate light image in the imaging plane (ZBE, ZBE′), which intermediate light image lying in the imaging plane is imaged by the projection device (5) into a region in front of the lighting device (1), e.g. into a traffic area in front of the motor vehicle in the case of a lighting device installed in a motor vehicle, as a light distribution or part of a light distribution.

The invention relates to a lighting device (1) which comprises an imaging unit (2) which is configured to generate an intermediate light image in an imaging plane (ZBE, ZBE′), wherein each imaging unit (2) is composed of a light source (3) and a collimator optics (4), wherein the collimator optics (4) are designed in such a way that the light emitted by the light source (3) in the imaging plane (ZBE, ZBE′) is imaged as an intermediate light image, and wherein the lighting device (1) comprises a projection lens (5) which has a focal plane (BE), and the imaging unit (2) and the projection device (5) are arranged with respect to one another in such a way that the imaging plane (ZBE, ZBE′) lies substantially in the focal plane (BE) of the at least one projection device (5). According to the invention, the imaging unit (2) is designed as a convergence imaging unit (2) being characterized in that the body (4A) of the collimator optics (4) is designed such that the light, which is coupled into the body (4A) via the light coupling region (41A) form a collimator body light bundle (KLB, KLB′) converging into a common virtual intermediate light image plane (VBE, VBE′), wherein the virtual intermediate light image plane (VBE, VBE′) lies in front of the imaging plane (ZBE, ZBE′) of the convergence imaging unit (2) in the direction of light propagation, and wherein a light exit surface (41C) of the body (4A) is designed in such a way that when the collimator body light bundle (KLB, KLB′) exits from the body (4A), the light beams are deflected at the light exit surface (41C) and are formed into an exit light bundle (ALB, ALB′) such that the light beams of the exit light bundle (ALB, ALB′) form the intermediate light image in the imaging plane (ZBE, ZBE′), which intermediate light image lying in the imaging plane is imaged by the projection device (5) into a region in front of the lighting device (1), e.g. into a traffic area in front of the motor vehicle in the case of a lighting device installed in a motor vehicle, as a light distribution or part of a light distribution.

A hood ornament mounting system is provided. The system includes a ring member having a keyed structure, including dentations, along an internal perimeter of the ring member, and a pair of through channels formed along an outside perimeter of the ring member at opposite regions. Additionally, the system includes a base member with a pair of recesses formed at opposite regions along a perimeter of the base member. The base member includes a bottom surface configured to contact a surface of an automobile and a top surface dimensioned to fit within the internal perimeter of the ring member. The base member has grooves on the perimeter to accommodate the dentations. A locking pin is seated in each of the pair of recesses. The locking pin is configured to lockingly interact with the keyed structure.