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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8109662 | Headlight lens for a vehicle headlight The invention relates to a single-piece headlamp lens (2) for a vehicle headlamp (1), in particular for a motor vehicle headlamp (1), wherein the headlamp lens (2) comprises a first region (40) designed as a free-form lens part or ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7794127 | Light emitting diode having grooves to modulate light emission thereof A light emitting diode (10) includes an LED chip (14) and an encapsulant (16) enclosing the LED chip. The LED chip has a light emitting surface (141), and the encapsulant has a light output surface (161) over the light emitting sur... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7736036 | Lamp unit of vehicle headlamp An upper portion region and a lower portion region at a front side surface of a projector lens are constituted as up and down direction diverging portions provided with a plurality of lens elements extended substantially in a horizontal direction by a vertical secti... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7712935 | Lamp unit A lamp unit is provided. The lamp unit includes a light emitting element disposed on an optical axis so as to face in a direction substantially orthogonal to the optical axis, a first reflector facing the light emitting element to forwardly reflect light from the li... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7588358 | Single LED and lens assembly An apparatus and method for producing a light output pattern from a single LED source through a lens that diverges light at or around the center of the lens from a single source but converges light at concentric areas around the center area. The assembly can avoid a... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7559679 | Vehicle light apparatus and motorcycle having the light apparatus A vehicle light apparatus has a lamp bulb that is not visible from the outside and a reflecting area that is not conspicuous when the light is on. An inner lens reflects light, from the lamp bulb toward a lens opening and an outer lens attached to the lens opening c... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7503679 | Optical module for a motor vehicle headlight provided with an optical deviation element An optical module for a motor vehicle headlight comprising a reflector having an optical axis and at least one focus, a light source placed in the vicinity of the focus to be reflected, and a transparent optical deviation element placed in front of part of the refle... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7416324 | Multi-color or multi-function LED vehicle light assembly A vehicle light assembly may be made from a lamp having a plurality of LED light sources arrayed circumferentially around the lamp; a reflector body having a reflector axis generally directed to a field to be illuminated. A plurality of reflective surfaces is formed... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7407310 | Vehicular headlamp A vehicular headlamp 1 including a projection lens 16 installed on the optical axis Ax extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle a light source 12a provided behind the rear side focal point F of the projection lens 16,... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7367703 | Vehicle headlamp and lamp unit The projection lens of a lamp unit is configured as a plano-convex lens whose front surface is a convex curved surface and whose rear surface is a plane. The rear surface is constituted by a plane tilted upward with respect to a plane orthogonal to the optical axis ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364333 | Vehicle headlight system with variable beam shape In a vehicle headlight system with a light source (2) and at least one reflector (1) for shaping the light emitted by the light source into a high beam and a low beam, and with a shield (7) adjustable via an actuating element (9) between ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364332 | Vehicle headlamp A light source bulb 22 is inserted and fixed into a reflector 24 from a side in a position placed downward apart from an optical axis Ax. Thus, it is possible to effectively utilize an optical-axis side region in a reflecting plane 24a fo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364334 | Headlight for a motor vehicle giving a cutoff beam The object of the invention is a light, for a motor vehicle, giving a cutoff beam, in particular of the fog type, having an optical axis. The light having a light source having a filament, the overall shape of which is substantially cylindrical and the axis of which... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357545 | Multi-focal lens for bi-functional headlamp The headlamp assembly having low beam and high beam operation modes includes a light source, a reflector surface adapted to reflect light from the light source outward to a condenser lens positioned at a distance from the light source. An opaque shield is positioned... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350947 | Lens optics used to reduce part deformation due to heat A light assembly for an automotive vehicle includes a lens holder that supports an internal lens. The light assembly includes a light source powered by the vehicle. The internal lens includes an undulating surface facing the light source. A reflective metallic layer... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7339200 | Light-emitting diode and vehicular lamp A light-emitting diode including a curved surface portion 14aA formed in the front face of a sealing member 14 with the cross-sectional shape of the curved surface portion being in the shape of an undulating curve that has a concave curve C1 | 03/04/2008 |
| 7335921 | Lighting devices using feedback enhanced light emitting diode Lighting devices using feedback-enhanced luminescent devices are disclosed. A light emitting diode disposed between feedback elements (FE-LED) may be used as a light emitting element in the lighting devices. The light emitting element may be coupled to a light distr... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7322725 | Light device for vehicle and vehicle provided with same A vehicle and associated light source that comprises a single source of light and a surrounding housing and lens arrangement that gives the visual effect of multiple light sources. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7303316 | Car lamp structure A car lamp includes a lamp shell, a reflecting shade ahead of the lamp shell, a bulb on the reflecting shell, a set-off member ahead of the reflecting shade, and a pervious-to-light lamp cover secured ahead of the set-off member; the reflecting shade has several ref... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303807 | Cover of lighting unit for vehicle A lighting unit cover including a deep color (first) resin layer subject to preblanking is laminated and molded in a predetermined position on a backside of a light color (second) resin layer on a surface side subject to postblanking. The second layer protrudes towa... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7290908 | Vehicular lamp A vehicular lamp including a light-emitting element 10 that emits light at a greater diffusion angle in the lateral direction than in the vertical direction, thus enabling the light to be incident on the rear face 34a of a horizontally elongated... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287876 | Cold cathode fluoresecent lamp lighting device A cold cathode fluorescent lamp lighting device includes a lens cover, a cold cathode fluorescent lamp and a control box. The lens cover is a semicircular-shaped tube and includes a post having a threaded hole for insertion of a bolt. The cold cathode fluorescent la... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7278767 | Door mirror equipped with lamp body A door mirror comprising a mirror portion and a side blinker which is one example of lamp bodies allows easily performed maintenance for the side blinker. A second opening is formed on the back side of a mirror housing with fixing pieces formed on the second opening... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7273306 | Lens for vehicle marker The present invention relates to a lens for a light-emitting diode (LED) vehicle marker having a projection for increasing visibility of the vehicle to which the marker is affixed. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the lens includes a gener... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272264 | System and method for hole filling in 3D models A method for hole-filling in 3D models includes identifying vertices adjacent to hole boundaries in a mesh of points on a digital image and constructing a signed distance function based on vertices adjacent to hole boundaries. A Radial Basis Function is fit based on... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270454 | Vehicular lamp A vehicular lamp in which a luminous flux utilization factor is enhanced by a structure of a light-emitting element that is disposed to face forward with respect to a vehicular lamp and covered from its front side with a translucent member. The circumferential regio... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7258473 | Vehicle lamp A vehicle lamp can include a first light source located almost at the center of an emission region, and a transparent cover lens arranged to cover the front in the direction of illumination from the first light source. A central reflective portion of the cover lens ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255467 | Vehicular headlamp and light emission module A vehicular headlamp for emitting light ahead of an automobile, includes: a semiconductor light emitting device; a reflector, having its optical center on the semiconductor light emitting device, for reflecting light generated by the semiconductor light emitting dev... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7234852 | Vehicle headlamp A lamp includes a projection lens, a reflector, and a prismatic lens. The prismatic lens receives direct light, which has been transmitted from the light source outwardly with respect to a widthwise direction of a vehicle, and refracts the received light toward the ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7229197 | Vehicle side mirror apparatus A vehicle side mirror apparatus for looking backward circumstances of a vehicle has: a housing that is of a transparent or semitransparent material with a cross section having a predetermined thickness, the housing having a light entering end into which light enters... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7204610 | LED indicator lamp An LED indication lamp has desired luminous intensity distribution characteristics without need for any light-emitting diode of a special shape. The LED indication lamp comprising a plurality of light-emitting diodes and having specified luminous intensity distribut... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7201503 | Vehicular lamp including hemispherical translucent member with fan-shaped zones and lens elements A vehicular lamp including a translucent member 14 and a light-emitting element 12 with its front being covered by the translucent member 14; a plurality of lens elements 14s1 and 14s2 being formed on th... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193365 | High-intensity light emitting diode with concave and convex shaped light scattering portions formed on a cover A light emitting diode, capable of accomplishing enlargement of emitted range of light and equalization of brightness of emitted light has a substrate (22), electrodes (23a, 23b), a light emitting element (24) mounted on the... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188982 | Vehicle headlamp, reflector for the vehicle headlamp, computer program for designing the reflector The projector type vehicle headlamp includes a light source, a reflector including a reflection surface for reflecting light from the light source, and a condenser lens that irradiates reflected light from the reflection surface forwards. The reflection surface incl... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187505 | Imaging lens for infrared cameras An infrared imaging device is provided which comprises first and second plastic Fresnel lenses that are in optical communication with each other. Each of the first and second lenses have a first major surface which is convex and a second major surface which comprise... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7168836 | Vehicle illumination lamp A cylindrical lens extends generally in a width direction of a vehicle, and light from three light-emitting elements, rearward of a rear focal line of the cylindrical lens, is reflected forward by three reflectors. A reflecting surface of each reflector has an ellip... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168832 | Vehicle headlamp As the annular translucent member, an annular lens formed from a peripheral edge portion of a convex-meniscus lens is disposed between a projection lens and a reflector along an outer peripheral edge of the projection lens. Direct light from a light source toward a ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7163320 | Grille having light emitting effect A grille for a car grille includes a frame, a filter net mounted on a side of the frame, and a light emitting device mounted between the frame and the filter net. Thus, the arcuate convex faces of the reflective plate of the light emitting device reflect the light r... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7139133 | Optical lens soft-focus effect The optical lens, especially for a motor vehicle, is provided with a soft-focus effect, e.g. to soften a light-dark boundary on an illuminated surface. For this purpose the optical lens has an optically active surface (5′) provided with an embossed fine str... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7134769 | Lantern, preferably for use on board ships, in particular leisure craft The invention relates to a lantern, preferably for use aboard ships, in particular leisure vessels, which has a housing, at least one illuminant and a light-permeable cover. According to the invention, at least one LED is provided as the illuminant and is ass... | 11/14/2006 |
