Lighting device and headlight for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10203081-B2
Application number	US-201815925724-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 19, 2018
Priority date	Jun 5, 2017
Publication date	Feb 12, 2019
Grant date	Feb 12, 2019

Abstract

A small and thin lighting device with high efficiency and good design and a headlight for a vehicle. A lighting device includes a first lens taking light generated by a light emitting device and emitting the light, and a second lens taking an emitted light from the first lens and emitting the light, in which the second lens is an anamorphic lens in which curvatures are different in a vertical direction and a right and left direction and a center of a lens surface in the vertical direction of the second lens is positioned in an upper direction with respect to an optical axis of the first lens. A headlight for a vehicle including the plural lighting devices is forming a low beam light distribution by superimposing lights from respective lighting devices for irradiation of the center, right and left in a horizontal direction respectively.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A headlight for a vehicle comprising:
a plurality of lighting devices arranged in a right and left direction, each having a different distribution of light and each comprising:
a light emitting device;
a first lens taking light generated by the light emitting device and emitting the light; and
a second lens taking an emitted light from the first lens and emitting the light in a given direction,
wherein the first lens includes an incident port on which light generated by the light emitting device is incident, an emission port from which light incident on the incident port and passing through the inside of the first lens is emitted, and a side surface portion including a plurality of side wall surfaces provided between the incident port and the emission port,
the incident port of the first lens has a concave shape surrounding the light emitting device, having a first incident surface as a concave bottom surface and a second incident surface as a concave side surface,
the side surface portion includes a first reflective surface on which light incident on the second incident surface is reflected and a second reflective surface on which light incident on the first incident surface and light reflected on the first reflective surface are reflected, and
the second lens is an anamorphic lens in which curvatures are different in a vertical direction and a right and left direction, and includes a light incident part in the vertical direction formed in a convex shape and a light emission part, wherein the light incident part or the light emission part in the right and left direction is formed in a convex shape, a concave shape or a linear shape;
wherein the second lens is a thin lens in which a thickness in the right and left direction is smaller than a thickness in the vertical direction.

2. The headlight according to claim 1 ,
wherein a center line of a lens surface in the vertical direction of the second lens is positioned in an opposite direction to the second reflective surface of the first lens with respect to an optical axis of the first lens.

3. The headlight according to claim 2 ,
wherein the second lens is an anamorphic lens in which curvatures of an emission surface are different in the vertical direction and the right and left direction.

4. The headlight for the vehicle according to claim 1 , comprising three of said lighting devices,
wherein centers of distributions of light in the three lighting devices are set to a center, right and left, respectively, with respect to a front center of the vehicle.

5. The headlight for the vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least one of said lighting devices has a comparatively small light distribution angle and another at least one of said lighting devices has a comparatively wide light distribution angle compared to each other.

6. The headlight for the vehicle according to claim 4 ,
wherein the lighting devices in which centers of distributions of light are set to the right and left are formed by decentering the light incident part and the emission surface of the respective second lens in a horizontal direction.

7. A headlight for a vehicle comprising:
a plurality of lighting devices arranged in a right and left direction, each having a different distribution of light and each comprising:
a light emitting device;
a first lens; and
a second lens arranged so that the first lens is between the second lens and the light emitting device,
wherein the first lens includes an incident port, an emission port, and a side surface portion including a plurality of side wall surfaces provided between the incident port and the emission port, wherein the incident port of the first lens has a concave shape surrounding the light emitting device, having a first incident surface as a concave bottom surface and a second incident surface as a concave side surface,
wherein the side surface portion includes a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface, and
wherein the second lens is a thin lens in which a thickness in the right and left direction is smaller than a thickness in the vertical direction and is an anamorphic lens in which curvatures are different in a vertical direction and a right and left directions, and includes a light incident part in the vertical direction formed in a convex shape and a light emission part, wherein the light incident part or the light emission part in the right and left direction is formed in a convex shape, a concave shape or a linear shape.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Matsuda Takashi
• Kasano Masahiro

Classifications

• F21S41/275

  Lens surfaces, e.g. coatings or surface structures · CPC title

• F21Y2115/10

  Light-emitting diodes [LED] · CPC title

• F21S41/143 Primary

  the main emission direction of the LED being parallel to the optical axis of the illuminating device · CPC title

• F21Y2115/20

  Electroluminescent [EL] light sources · CPC title

• F21S41/26 Primary

  Elongated lenses · CPC title