Apparatus for driving headlamp shield

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10180227-B2
Application number	US-201514960641-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 7, 2015
Priority date	Sep 24, 2015
Publication date	Jan 15, 2019
Grant date	Jan 15, 2019

Abstract

An apparatus for driving a headlamp shield is provided, which simplifies the operation structure of a bi-functional headlamp shield to reduce costs and improve quality. The apparatus includes a shield that rotates integrally with a rotary shaft thereof, and a coil section formed to cylindrically surround the rotary shaft, and that is configured to generate an electromagnetic force for moving the rotary shaft in a linear trajectory when a current is applied to the coil section. Further, a motion direction switching component adjusts the linear axial movement of the rotary shaft to axial rotation thereof.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for driving a headlamp shield, comprising:
a shield that rotates integrally with a rotary shaft;
a coil section formed to cylindrically surround the rotary shaft, and configured to generate an electromagnetic force that moves the rotary shaft in a linear trajectory when a current is applied to the coil section; and
a motion direction switching component configured to adjust linear axial movement of the rotary shaft to axial rotation thereof,
wherein the rotary shaft is coupled through coupling a plurality of medium portions to rotate integrally with the shield.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the motion direction switching component includes:
a rotation guide groove formed in an exterior peripheral surface of the rotary shaft to extend in a diagonal direction; and
a fixing pin, having a first end inserted into the rotation guide groove and a second end coupled to one side of a base plate to support the coil section,
when the rotary shaft moves in a linear trajectory the fixing pin moves along the rotation guide groove.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the base plate includes,
a coil support portion that fixedly supports the coil section; and
rotary shaft support portions that support the first and second ends of the rotary shaft of the shield,
wherein the rotary shaft moves in a linear trajectory and axially rotatable, and the other end of the fixing pin is fixed to any one of the rotary shaft support portions.

4. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the rotation guide groove is formed in at least one of end of the rotary shaft of the shield.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a restoring spring positioned to be compressed or stretched when the rotary shaft moves in a linear trajectory,
wherein the restoring spring returns the rotary shaft using elastic restoring force generated while being compressed or stretched, when supply of the current applied to the coil section is interrupted.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the coil section surrounds the rotary shaft having an interior peripheral surface of the coil section separated from an exterior peripheral surface of the rotary shaft by a pre-determined distance.

7. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the base plate includes the coil support portion formed between the rotary shaft support portions separated from each other at both sides of the base plate, to fix the coil section.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Young Min
• Lee Yang Gi
• Lee Jae Hun

Classifications

• F21S41/689 Primary

  Flaps, i.e. screens pivoting around one of their edges · CPC title

• F21S41/162

  Incandescent light sources, e.g. filament or halogen lamps · CPC title

• F21S41/60 Primary

  characterised by a variable light distribution · CPC title

• F21W2102/00

  Exterior vehicle lighting devices for illuminating purposes · CPC title

• F21S41/698 Primary

  Shaft-shaped screens rotating along its longitudinal axis · CPC title