LIGHTING MODULE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE HEADLIGHT, HEADLIGHT EQUIPPED WITH SUCH MODULES, AND HEADLIGHT ASSEMBLY

• US 20160069528A1
• Filed: 05/28/2014
• Published: 03/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Valeo Vision (Valeo SE)
• Original Assignee: Valeo Vision (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Albou, Pierre, Godbillon, Vincent
• Application Number:
  US14/888,250
• Publication Number:
  US 20160069528A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/04 the devices being headlights
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/143 combined with another condition, e.g. using vehicle recognition from camera images or activation of wipers
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 2300/056 Special anti-blinding beams, e.g. a standard beam is chopped or moved in order not to blind
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 2300/42 oncoming vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 41/285 Refractors, transparent cover plates, light guides or filters not provided in groups F21S41/24 - F21S41/2805
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 41/32 Optical layout thereof
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 41/338 the reflector having surface portions added to its general concavity
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 41/43 characterised by the shape thereof
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 41/663 by switching light sources by switching incandescent light sources F21S41/162

Abstract

A lighting module for a motor vehicle headlight, comprising at least one light source and optical means for forming a light pattern, or pixel, comprising an area illuminated according to a vertical light strip delimited by two vertical edges; the optical means are provided to also form at least one light strip transversal to the vertical light strip, with at least two transverse edges, such that the light pattern comprises at least one vertical strip and at least one transverse strip.

Claims

1. A lighting module for a motor vehicle headlight, comprising at least one light source (S) and optical means (O, O1) for forming a light pattern, comprising an area illuminated according to a vertical light strip delimited by at least two vertical edges, wherein said optical means (O, O1) are arranged to also form at least one transverse light strip transversal to said vertical light strip, with at least two transverse edges, such that said light pattern comprises at least one vertical strip and at least one transverse strip which are contiguous.

2. The lighting module as claimed in claim 1, wherein said transverse light strip is substantially at right angles to said vertical light strip.

3. The lighting module as claimed in claim 1, wherein said transverse light strip is the point of origin for at least one of the ends of said vertical light strip.

4. The lighting module as claimed in claim 3, wherein said transverse light strip is situated at the top end of said vertical light strip and extends on the right side or on the left side of said vertical light strip, to form an inverted L turned to the right or to the left.

5. The lighting module as claimed in claim 3, wherein a light pattern (B) is made up of said vertical light strip with, at each end of said vertical light strip said transverse light strip which extends in opposite directions.

6. The lighting module as claimed in claim 3, wherein a light pattern (C) comprises said vertical light strip, and on both sides of top end of said vertical light strip, a horizontal light strip.

7. The lighting module as claimed in claim 3, wherein a light pattern (D) comprises said vertical light strip with, at its top end, said transverse, light strip, of which the end remote from said vertical light strip joins another, upwardly directed, vertical strip.

8. The lighting module as claimed in claim 1 wherein said transverse light strip extends over a distance (w2) equal to a width (w1) of said vertical light strip.

9. The lighting module as claimed in claim 1, wherein said optical means (O) for forming a pattern with at least one of said vertical light strip and at least one of said transverse light strip comprise a reflector which receives the light emitted by said at least one light source (S) and reflects the light toward a lens situated in front of said reflector, a bottom reflecting portion being provided in a bottom part of said reflector, the profile of said bottom reflecting portion being modified to exhibit, on one edge, an area that is concave toward the front and curved toward an optical axis of said lighting module, a reflecting surface of said bottom reflecting portion, turned toward said lens, being determined to create said transverse light strip (2, 3, 3a) of the light pattern.

10. The lighting module as claimed in claim 9, wherein said reflector is cylindrical or parabolic.

11. The lighting module as claimed in claim 1 wherein said optical means (O1) for forming a pattern with at least one of said vertical light strip and at least one of said transverse light strip comprise an elliptical reflector which receives the light emitted by said at least one light source (S) arranged at a first focal point (F1) of said elliptical reflector, which returns the light forward toward a second focal point (F2) where a mask is arranged in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis of said lighting module, said mask comprising an aperture whose form corresponds to that of the light pattern that said lighting module must generate, and a focusing lens whose focal point is merged with said second focal point (F2) of said elliptical reflector.

12. The lighting module as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one light source (S) is a light-emitting diode.

13. The lighting module as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one light source (S) is a combination of a laser source and a luminophore.

14. A motor vehicle headlight comprising a plurality of lighting modules, a first lighting module is provided to form, advantageously only, a vertical central light strip (M1, M2, M3), that at least one second lighting module as claimed in claim 1 is provided to form, on one side of said central light strip (M1, M2, M3), a light pattern (A, B, C, D) with at least one transverse light strip which extends in one direction, and that at least one third lighting module is provided to form, on the other side of said central light strip (M1, M2, M3) formed by said first lighting module, a light pattern symmetrical to the pattern formed by said second lighting module relative to the-said central light strip (M1, M2, M3) formed by said first lighting module.

15. An assembly of a right headlight and a left headlight of a motor vehicle, as claimed in claim 14, wherein said right headlight and said left headlight are combined for their beams to be combined and/or be overlaid so as to form a lighting beam projected onto the road taken by said motor vehicle.

16. The lighting module as claimed in claim 2, wherein said transverse light strip is the point of origin for at least one of the ends of said vertical light strip.

17. The lighting module as claimed in claim 4, wherein a light pattern (C) comprises said vertical light strip, and on both sides of the top end of said vertical light strip, a horizontal light strip.

18. The lighting module as claimed in claim 4, wherein a light pattern (D) comprises said vertical light strip with, at its top end, said transverse light strip, of which the end remote from said vertical light strip joins another, upwardly directed, vertical strip.

19. The lighting module as claimed in claim 2, wherein said transverse light strip extends over a distance (w2) equal to a width (w1) of said vertical light strip.

20. The lighting module as claimed in claim 3, wherein said transverse light strip extends over a distance (w2) equal to a width (w1) of said vertical light strip.