Lamp for vehicle having a rotating reflector and a reflecting body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9726352-B2
Application number	US-201514670391-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 26, 2015
Priority date	Nov 4, 2014
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

A lamp for a vehicle includes a light source generating a light. A reflector is rotatably coupled with a support. A reflecting body is connected to the reflector to rotate along with a rotation of the reflector, receives the light from the light source, and reflects the light to the reflector.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A lamp for a vehicle, comprising:
a light source generating a light;
a reflector rotatably coupled with a support; and
a reflecting body connected to the reflector to rotate along with rotation of the reflector, the reflecting body receiving the light from the light source and reflecting the light to the reflector,
wherein the reflector is axis-coupled with the support and rotates forward and backward based on an axis, and
wherein the reflecting body is rotatably axis-coupled with the support forward and backward, and the reflector and the reflecting body each having a set ratio are coupled with a reflector side gear and a reflecting body side gear which are meshed with each other.

2. The lamp of claim 1 , wherein the support is a lamp housing or a frame connected to a vehicle body or the lamp housing to support the reflector.

3. The lamp of claim 1 , wherein the light source generates a laser beam.

4. The lamp of claim 3 , wherein the reflector further includes a phosphor provided on a moving path of the light reflected from a reflection surface and the reflecting body, changing a wavelength of the light incident from the reflecting body, and irradiating the light to the reflection surface.

5. The lamp of claim 4 , further comprising a subframe disposed between the reflector and the support to rotate the reflector forward and backward, wherein upper and lower ends of the reflector are each axis-coupled with the support such that the reflector rotates to left and right, and axis protrusions which are rotatably axis-coupled with the support are formed at left and right ends and protrude to outside.

6. The lamp of claim 5 , wherein a virtual line connecting from the upper and lower ends of the reflector to a point at which the upper and lower ends of the reflector are axis-coupled with the subframe passes through a center of a light incident surface of the phosphor.

7. The lamp of claim 5 , wherein the reflecting body has a front surface on which the light from the light source is incident and a rear side of the reflecting body is covered by a cover part to prevent the light from the light source from being leaked to the outside.

8. The lamp of claim 7 , wherein the cover part is an extending panel which has an end rotatably coupled with the subframe by allowing the reflector to extend downwardly from a phosphor side.

9. The lamp of claim 5 , further comprising:
a first control part having one end coupled with the upper end or the lower end of the reflector and pushing or pulling the reflector forward and backward to rotate the reflector forward and backward; and
a second control part having an end coupled with a left side or a right side of the reflector and pushing or pulling the reflector forward and backward to rotate the reflector left and right.

10. The lamp of claim 9 , wherein the ends of the first control part and the second control part have threads, and the reflector is provided with nuts made of an elastic material which are coupled with the first control part or the second control part.

11. The lamp of claim 5 , wherein the upper and lower ends of the reflector have protrusions for axis rotation in a left and right direction, and the subframe has a groove or a hole to insert the protrusions thereinto.

12. The lamp of claim 4 , wherein the reflector has symmetrical form based on the phosphor.

13. The lamp of claim 1 , wherein the reflecting body and the reflector rotate at the set ratio.

14. The lamp of claim 13 , wherein the reflector and the reflecting body rotate at a different angle of rotation with the set ratio of 2:1.

15. The lamp of claim 13 , wherein each of the reflector and the reflecting body is axis-coupled with the support, and the reflecting body rotates at an angle calculated from Equation

θ
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1

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⁢

⁢
sin
⁢

⁢
α

b
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)

when the reflector rotates, wherein a represents a distance from a rotation axis of the reflector to a center of a light incident surface of the phosphor, b represents a distance from a rotation axis of the reflecting body to the center of the light incident surface of the phosphor, α represents an angle of rotation of the reflector, and θ represents an angle of rotation of the reflecting body.

16. The lamp of claim 1 , wherein the light source and the reflector are separated from each other.

17. The lamp of claim 1 , wherein the reflecting body is coupled with the support by a protrusion or a bar-shaped coupling shaft to axis-rotate forward and backward.

18. The lamp of claim 1 , wherein the light source is coupled with a separate cooling fin for cooling high heat generated from the light source.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ahn Byoung Suk

Classifications

• F21S41/176

  Light sources where the light is generated by photoluminescent material spaced from a primary light generating element · CPC title

• F21S41/37

  characterised by their material, surface treatment or coatings · CPC title

• F21S43/16

  Light sources where the light is generated by photoluminescent material spaced from a primary light generating element · CPC title

• F21V7/10

  Construction · CPC title

• F21S41/30

  characterised by reflectors · CPC title