Headlight for vehicles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9335019-B2
Application number	US-201414305436-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 16, 2014
Priority date	Jun 24, 2013
Publication date	May 10, 2016
Grant date	May 10, 2016

Abstract

A headlight for vehicles, having a reflector, a light source unit which is functionally assigned to the reflector, a lens placed in front of the light source unit in the primary beam direction, and an aperture device arranged between the light source unit and the lens. The aperture device is positioned in a focal point region of the lens and has an aperture edge which runs perpendicular to the optical axis for the purpose of generating a light/dark boundary for a prespecified light distribution. The light source unit has a plurality of light sources separated spatially from each other, such that light can be emitted from an illumination surface. The aperture edge transitions into a correction edge from a central region of the aperture device towards opposite ends of the same. The correction edge runs in such a manner that an optical lens aberration resulting from the light source unit being constructed as an illumination surface is compensated.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A headlight for vehicles, comprising:
a reflector, having a light source unit which is functionally assigned to the reflector;
a lens placed in front of the light source unit in a primary beam direction;
an aperture device arranged between the light source unit and the lens, said aperture device being positioned in a focal point region of the lens and having an aperture edge which runs perpendicular to the optical axis for the purpose of generating a light/dark boundary for a prespecified light distribution,
wherein the light source unit has a plurality of light sources separated spatially from each other, such that light can be emitted from an illumination surface, and
wherein the aperture edge transitions into a correction edge from a central region of the aperture device towards opposite ends of the same, said correction edge running in such a manner that an optical lens aberration resulting from the light source unit being constructed as an illumination surface is compensated.

2. The headlight according to claim 1 , wherein the correction edge running in an end region of the aperture edge continuously rises or falls vertically proceeding from the central region of the aperture device, according to the design of the lens.

3. The headlight according to claim 1 , wherein the correction edge rises or falls vertically proceeding from the central region to the ends of the aperture device according to the projection scale of the lens and/or the size of the illumination surface and/or the prespecified light distribution.

4. The headlight according claim 1 , wherein the lens is designed as a plano-convex or concavo-convex lens, and the correction edge arranged in the end region of the aperture device rises vertically toward the ends of the aperture device.

5. The headlight according claim 1 , wherein the lens is designed as a biconcave lens, and the correction edge falls vertically toward the ends of the aperture device.

6. The headlight according claim 1 , wherein the aperture device has an aperture shaft which can be set in multiple rotary positions about a horizontal axis of rotation running transverse to the optical axis, and which has a plurality of aperture edges each running in the longitudinal direction of the aperture shaft.

7. The headlight according to claim 6 , wherein the aperture shaft has an osteoid design.

8. The headlight according claim 1 , wherein the aperture device has a stationary aperture plate, and an aperture plate which is able to rotate about an axis of rotation running parallel to the optical axis, for the purpose of generating different light distributions, wherein aperture edges of the stationary aperture plate and the rotating aperture plate each have correction edges in an end region.

9. The headlight according claim 1 , wherein the light source unit extends over a luminous field with a size up to 1 cm 2 .

10. The headlight according claim 1 , wherein the light sources are each designed as LED light sources.

Assignees

• Hella Kgaa Hueck & Co

Inventors

• Dreβler Björn
• Ehm Matthias
• Süsselbeck Daniel

Classifications

• F21S41/698

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

• F21S41/692

  Shields, i.e. screens not creating an image meant to be projected · CPC title

• F21S41/255

  Lenses with a front view of circular or truncated circular outline · CPC title

• F21S41/43

  characterised by the shape thereof · CPC title

• F21S48/115

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic