METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20240284568A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-22

    申请号:US18567865

    申请日:2022-06-22

    申请人: VALEO VISION

    发明人: Rabih TALEB

    摘要: A method for operating an automotive lighting device including at least one solid-state light source. The method includes defining a color allowance condition, feeding the light source with a current value which produces a luminous flux value higher than a minimum luminous flux threshold value, measuring the temperature in the light source, checking whether the output color satisfies the allowance condition and increasing or decreasing the current value, always keeping the current such as it produces an acceptable color. With the checking includes perform a pulse width modulation of the current value to keep an average value of the current which produces a luminous flux value higher than the minimum luminous flux threshold value. The invention also provides an automotive lighting device comprising a control element to carry out the steps of this method.

    Vehicle headlamps
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12066161B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US18275476

    申请日:2022-02-03

    发明人: Tomoyuki Ohno

    摘要: Vehicle headlights are equipped with a right-side lamp, a left-side lamp, and a control unit. A right-side light distribution pattern and a left-side light distribution pattern include an overlapping area and a non-overlapping area. In a case where the steering angle is greater than the prescribed angle, the control unit controls power supplied to light-emitting parts of the right-side lamp and power supplied to light-emitting parts of the left-side lamp such that: a first area of a first light distribution pattern is located in the non-overlapping area; a second area of a second light distribution pattern is located in the overlapping area; and a first intensity of the light in the first area becomes greater than the sum of a second intensity of the light in the second area and a third intensity of the light in the area overlapping the second area within the first light distribution pattern.

    VEHICLE HEADLAMP
    3.
    发明公开
    VEHICLE HEADLAMP 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240272424A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-15

    申请号:US18567516

    申请日:2022-12-14

    申请人: Docter Optics SE

    摘要: The disclosure relates, inter alia, to a motor vehicle (1) having a vehicle headlight (10) which comprises a lighting lens (46), the lighting lens (46) comprising a lens body (460) made of transparent material with at least one light entrance surface (462) and at least one light exit surface, wherein the lighting lens (46) further comprises a lighting assembly (461) which comprises a carrier (4612) on which is arranged a lighting matrix (4611) with a plurality of independently controllable lighting pixels, wherein by means of the lighting matrix (4611) light can be irradiated into the light entrance surface (462) of the lens body (460), which light exits from the light exit surface of the lens body (460), wherein between the lighting matrix (4611) and the light entrance surface (462) an air gap (464) is provided which is sealed dust-tight but not air-tight with respect to the surroundings of the lighting lens (46).

    Lights with microlens arrays
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12044373B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-23

    申请号:US18179998

    申请日:2023-03-07

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: F21S41/265 F21S41/153

    CPC分类号: F21S41/265 F21S41/153

    摘要: A system may have lights produce illumination. A light may be provided with a collimated light source that produces collimated light. The collimated light source may use lenses or reflective optical elements to produce the collimated light. The light may have an array of light elements each of which emits a respective beam of the illumination. Each light element may have a preshaping lens that receives the collimated light and produces corresponding preshaped output light and an output lens that receives the output light from the preshaping lens and produces a corresponding beam of the illumination. An electrically adjustable shutter may be located between each preshaping lens and output lens to adjust the illumination between a low-beam pattern and high-beam pattern.

    SYSTEM FOR PROJECTING A LIGHT BEAM
    10.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240027045A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-25

    申请号:US17787484

    申请日:2020-12-20

    申请人: VALEO VISION

    发明人: Pierre ALBOU

    摘要: The invention relates to a lighting system including a pixelated light source provided with a plurality of selectively activatable emissive elements, each having a rectangular shape with a height dimension and a width dimension, the width dimension being the same for all the emissive elements, and an optical device having an optical axis and configured to project an image of each of the emissive elements. The optical device configured such that the images have a width dimension that increases non-linearly moving away from the optical axis.