Shield drive device for head lamp

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9765939-B2
Application number	US-201514949684-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 23, 2015
Priority date	Dec 5, 2014
Publication date	Sep 19, 2017
Grant date	Sep 19, 2017

Abstract

A shield drive device for a head lamp may include a shield deployed in front of a light source positioned in a lamp assembly to be opened and closed while rotating by using a hinge portion as an axis, an actuator connected to a shield arm through a shaft while being deployed below the shield to rotate the shield, a sliding contact member deployed to be close to the shield arm of the shield to provide friction contact force when the shield rotates, and a sliding stopper and a spring mounted on the shield arm of the shield and configured to decelerate and control a motion of the shield while being compressed or de-compressed while contacting the sliding contact member when the shield rotates.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A shield drive device for a head lamp comprising:
a shield deployed in front of a light source positioned in a lamp assembly to be opened and closed while rotating by using a hinge portion as an axis;
an actuator connected to a shield arm through a shaft while being deployed below the shield to rotate the shield;
a sliding contact member including an inclination surface having a height difference in a circumferential direction of the sliding contact member and deployed to be close to the shield arm of the shield to adjust a magnitude of friction contact force when the shield rotates; and
a sliding stopper and a spring mounted on the shield arm of the shield and configured to decelerate and control a motion of the shield while being compressed or de-compressed while contacting the sliding contact member when the shield rotates.

2. The shield drive device of claim 1 , wherein the actuator is deployed in line below the shield to provide rotational drive force in a same direction as a rotational direction of the shield.

3. The shield drive device of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of sliding stoppers and springs is provided, at least one of which is configured to decelerate and control a shield motion when the shield is opened and another of which is configured to decelerate and control the shield motion when the shield is closed.

4. The shield drive device of claim 1 , wherein the inclination surface having a height difference in a circumferential direction is provided on a front surface of the sliding contact member, and as a result, a shield deceleration control is achieved while the sliding stopper passes through an inclination surface section.

5. The shield drive device of claim 4 , wherein the inclination surface of the sliding contact member comprises two inclination surfaces having a phase difference of 180° from each other and which are gradually heightened in opposite directions to each other based on the circumferential direction.

6. The shield drive device of claim 1 , wherein an inclination surface of the sliding contact member comprises two inclination surfaces having a phase difference of 180° from each other and which are gradually heightened in opposite directions to each other based on a circumferential direction.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Seong Hoon

Classifications

• F21S41/689 Primary

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

• F21W2102/00

  Exterior vehicle lighting devices for illuminating purposes · CPC title

• F21S41/00 Primary

  Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps (reversing lights F21S43/00) · CPC title

• F21S41/692

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

• B60Q1/068

  by mechanical means · CPC title