Shield driving device for headlamp

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9945531-B2
Application number	US-201615286453-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 5, 2016
Priority date	Jan 8, 2016
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

A shield driving device for a headlamp, which operates a rotary shield that selectively blocks a portion of light emitted from a light source to an aspherical lens, the shield driving device may include the rotary shield disposed in front of the light source, and performing a closing operation for blocking the portion of light from the light source, and an opening operation for unblocking the portion of the light while rotating about a rotating shaft, a shield controlling cam disposed below the rotary shield to be rotatable in a state of being in contact with a cam contact portion of the rotary shield, and rotating simultaneously with the cam contact portion by frictional force caused by contact, and an actuator which transmits rotational power to the shield controlling cam.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A shield driving device for a headlamp, which operates a rotary shield that selectively blocks a portion of light emitted from a light source to an aspherical lens, the shield driving device comprising:
the rotary shield disposed in front of the light source, and performing a closing operation for blocking the portion of light from the light source, and an opening operation for unblocking the portion of the light while rotating about a rotating shaft;
a shield controlling cam disposed below the rotary shield to be rotatable in a state of being in contact with a cam contact portion of the rotary shield, and rotating simultaneously with the cam contact portion by frictional force caused by contact; and
an actuator which transmits rotational power to the shield controlling cam,
wherein the cam contact portion is formed integrally with a lower portion of the rotating shaft of the rotary shield to be rotatable simultaneously with the rotary shield, and
wherein front and rear central portions of a lower end surface of the cam contact portion which is in contact with the shield controlling cam have a curved surface, and front and rear edge portions of the lower end surface of the cam contact portion have a flat surface.

2. The shield driving device of claim 1 , wherein the shield controlling cam has an outer circumferential surface which includes:
a first flat surface portion which is in at least one of line-to-line contact and surface contact with the cam contact portion during an operation of closing the rotary shield;
a second flat surface portion which is in at least one of line-to-line contact and surface contact with the cam contact portion during an operation of opening the rotary shield; and
a curved surface portion formed between the first flat surface portion and the second flat surface portion and in line-to-line contact with the cam contact portion during an operation of changing closed and opened states of the rotary shield.

3. The shield driving device of claim 1 , wherein a return spring, which produces elastic restoring force by being compressed as the closed state of the rotary shield is changed to the opened state, is disposed on the rotating shaft of the rotary shield.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Seong Hoon
• Oh Young Sub
• Bae Su Ho

Classifications

• B60Q2200/30

  Special arrangements for adjusting headlamps, e.g. means for transmitting the movements for adjusting the lamps · CPC title

• F21S41/285

  Refractors, transparent cover plates, light guides or filters not provided in groups F21S41/24 - F21S41/2805 · CPC title

• F21W2107/10

  for land vehicles · CPC title

• F21S41/692

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

• B60Q1/1438

  Actuating means for dimming masks or screens · CPC title