LAMP APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE

• US 20170059114A1
• Filed: 11/10/2015
• Published: 03/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: YANG, Jeong Gyu, AHN, Byoung Suk, NA, Jin Ho, SHIN, Jik Soo
• Granted Patent: US 10,125,945 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/14 Light emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/26 Refractors, transparent cover plates, light guides or filters not provided in groups F21S43/235 - F21S43/255
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/31 Optical layout thereof
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/40 characterised by the combination of reflectors and refractors
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

A vehicle lamp apparatus may include a reflector arranged on one curve of a hyperbola having two focal points, a light source, located at a focal point of the curve of the hyperbola on which the reflector is arranged, for irradiating the reflector with light corresponding to an image, and a condensing lens part on which light, emitted from the light source and reflected by the reflector, is incident, the condensing lens part including at least two lenses for condensing the light reflected by the reflector.

Claims

1. A vehicle lamp apparatus comprising:

a reflector arranged on one curve of a hyperbola having two focal points;

a light source, located at a focal point of the curve of the hyperbola on which the reflector is arranged, for irradiating the reflector with light corresponding to an image; and

a condensing lens part on which light, emitted from the light source and reflected by the reflector, is incident, the condensing lens part comprising at least two lenses for condensing the light reflected by the reflector.

2. The vehicle lamp apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reflector has a same shape as a shape formed by extension of the hyperbola.

3. The vehicle lamp apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in the two focal points of the hyperbola, a first focal point is located on a central axis of the condensing lens part, and a second focal point is located beneath a lowest end of the condensing lens part.

4. The vehicle lamp apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the light source is located at the second focal point to be located beneath the lowest end of the condensing lens part, and the condensing lens part has a shield formed at a lower portion thereof for blocking light such that the light is not directly radiated from the light source toward the condensing lens part.

5. The vehicle lamp apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the condensing lens part comprises first and second Fresnel lenses which are arranged to face each other.

6. The vehicle lamp apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a virtual light source is located at a first focal point of the two focal points of the hyperbola, an actual light source is located at a second focal point, and the actual light source is arranged such that light radiated toward the reflector comprises light incident on the condensing lens part from the virtual light source.

7. The vehicle lamp apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, in two first and second focal points of the hyperbola, a position of the first focal point, at which a virtual light source is located, is determined using a following equation:

8. The vehicle lamp apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the complex focal length of the first and second Fresnel lenses is determined using a following equation: