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Class 362/525 - Plural headlight supports concurrently operated


Subclass of Class 362 - Illumination
Definition: Subject matter wherein two or more lamp supports move simultaneously
No. of patents: 37
Last issue date: 07/05/2011


NumberTitleIssue Date
7972047Headlight unit
A headlight unit having a virtual pivot center provided at a position different from a supported position to a vehicle body. Two, upper and lower headlight supporting portions spaced apart from each other are provided at a rear portion of a headlight unit The upper ...
07/05/2011
7896533Motor vehicle headlight
A motor vehicle headlight is provided having a basic light source, a swiveling device which is equipped for swiveling the basic light source about a basic swiveling angle, and an infrared radiation source which is coupled with the swiveling device such that, when th...
03/01/2011
7500772Moving fog lights
A vehicle safety apparatus that includes a set of moving fog lights that are mounted within a housing that is mounted on the front undercarriage of a vehicle, with the fog lights being axially attached and capable of altering their light path in response to changes ...
03/10/2009
7438457Input shaft for a lamp adjuster
An input shaft for a lamp adjuster is disclosed. The input shaft includes a top portion and bottom portion. The top portion and bottom portion can move axially relative to one another such that the input shaft can have a plurality of different lengths. The input sha...
10/21/2008
7427151Vehicle lighting apparatus and vehicle headlamp apparatus including the same
A vehicle lighting apparatus emits a spot light distribution pattern to be combined with a low-beam light distribution pattern emitted from a headlamp. The vehicle lighting apparatus includes a semiconductor light source formed with a rectangular light emitting elem...
09/23/2008
7325954Vehicle light
A vehicle light with a bulb arranged sideway is provided which can reduce a length of the entire light without a deterioration in its brightness and with a simple configuration. The vehicle light can include a light source arranged sideway on an optical axis extendi...
02/05/2008
7322724Vehicle headlamp with concurrent vertical and independent horizontal adjustment of low and high beam light chambers
A headlamp for motor vehicles of the reflector or projector design having at least one low beam light chamber, with a discharge light source, and at least one high beam light chamber, with a halogen light source. The direction of the rays produced in the high beam l...
01/29/2008
7314297Vehicle lighting apparatus
A headlamp unit is provided to emphasize a shape of an individual lamp while suppressing an increase in the number of parts used, while improving ventilation and preventing fogging in areas near an inner surface of a lens, while maintaining a simple housing structur...
01/01/2008
7311426Adjustable beam lamp
A LED swivel reading lamp having an easily user adjustable sized light beam for use in vehicles such as automobiles, aircraft, and the like. ...
12/25/2007
7303320Pick-up truck cab accessory mounting bracket
A bracket (10) for mounting accessories on a pick-up truck cab (20) consisting of a Z-shaped elongated body (22) having a forward upper horizontal mounting flange (24), a rearward lower horizontal mounting flange (28), and an integ...
12/04/2007
7241038Light distribution control device
In this light distribution control device in order to provide a vehicular lighting fixture for an Adaptive Frontlighting System (AFS) in which a lot of light distribution patterns can be set without making the entire lighting fixture larger, beams which link said mo...
07/10/2007
7217016Lamp mounting apparatus
A lamp mounting apparatus engages a temporal fastening pin with a temporal fastening clip to prevent a positioning surface of a lamp unit from moving in such a direction as to depart from a flange, so that the lamp unit can be kept positioned. ...
05/15/2007
7195383Headlights for vehicles
Headlight for motor vehicles, comprising at least one light source and at least one light guide associated with each light source, into which the light emitted by the light source can be coupled via a light coupling surface, wherein each light guide is associated wi...
03/27/2007
7057504Vehicle headlamp apparatus
In a headlamp apparatus comprising a sub-CPU integrally provided on a headlamp for controlling an optical axis direction changing operation and a main CPU for sending out to the sub-control circuit a control signal for changing the direction of the optical axis, the...
06/06/2006
7008093Headlamp for vehicle
A first shade 32 is properly moved to vertically shift the position of a cutoff line, and furthermore, a lighting unit 20 is properly tilted in a vertical direction to displace a whole light distribution pattern in the vertical direction. Consequently,...
03/07/2006
6960005Vehicle headlamp apparatus
A vehicle headlamp apparatus 10 comprising a headlamp 3 for illuminating ahead of a subject vehicle 1, an image capture means 2 for capturing an image 21 ahead of the subject vehicle, a road terminal end determining means 19
11/01/2005
6936969Secondary vehicle headlight system
A secondary headlight system for detecting and compensating for failure of an automotive vehicle's low beam headlight, includes: (a) at least one photoresistor; (b) fiberoptics connected to the photoresistor; ...
08/30/2005
6793359Vehicle headlamp
A transmission member is swingably connected respectively to a reflector and a nut member, about an axis substantially orthogonal to a tilting direction of the reflector and to an advancing and backward direction of the nut member. As a result, the transmission memb...
09/21/2004
6773152Headlight
A headlight for a motor vehicle has a light module with at least one reflector and a light source, a first frame with which at least a part of the light module is connected, a first adjusting element for swivelling the first frame around a first swivel axis, a secon...
08/10/2004
6623147Vehicle lighting apparatus
A vehicle lighting apparatus includes abnormality detecting means for detecting abnormality in the AFS of the vehicle lighting apparatus, and means for adjusting optical axis of the lamp in the vertical direction for setting the angle of the optical axis ...
09/23/2003
6601982Vehicle headlamp and a vehicle
A headlamp (2; 3) of a vehicle (1) has a light source (4; 5) comprising a plurality of opto-electronic elements (11; 12; 13; 14), preferably light-emitting diodes (LED's). At least one of these opto-electronic elements (11; 12; 13; 14) has, in operation, ...
08/05/2003
6550944Vehicle headlamp
A vehicle headlamp has a unit pivot control mechanism for laterally moving the luminous intensity distribution of a lamp unit by laterally pivoting the lamp unit according to the travel conditions of the vehicle, and a luminous intensity variable control ...
04/22/2003
6540386Lamp having reflectors independently adjustable in the horizontal direction and concurrently adjustable in the vertical direction
A vehicular headlamp wherein aiming adjustment of two reflectors can be conducted accurately regardless of the positional relation between aiming screws operating in conjunction with each other. The headlamp includes first and second reflectors mounted in...
04/01/2003
6478457Movable vehicle headlight system
A movable vehicle headlight system for automatically aiming the headlights in the direction of travel regarless of the terrain of the road. The movable vehicle headlight system includes base assemblies each including a base member; and also includes headl...
11/12/2002
6457851Headlight arrangement for a vehicle for producing light beams with different characteristics
The headlight arrangement for a vehicle produces respective light beams with different characteristics and includes at least two headlight units (10), each having a number of individual headlights (12, 14, 16), by means of which the respective light beams...
10/01/2002
6332699Auxiliary lighting of right and left bearings for automobile
An auxiliary lighting system which provides additional light for right and left bearings of an automobile when driven at night. The lighting system includes a lighting body having a front protrusion and an interior compartment within which right and left ...
12/25/2001
6146004Vehicle lamp
A vehicle lamp has a housing, a light-transmissive shield covering the housing that extends across a corner area of the vehicle, at least one lamp chamber in the housing in which a light source is positioned, and a Fresnel lens having concentrically arran...
11/14/2000
5957563Actuator for manually adjusting headlamp elevation angle
A headlamp mounting system for an automobile includes respective headlamp housings for holding monofilament headlamps. Also, respective bases are attached to the automobile and each base is pivotably engaged with a respective one of the headlamp housings....
09/28/1999
5453914Arrangement with at least two structural parts adjustably connectable by an adjusting screw
An adjustable composite device has at least two parts, an adjusting screw adjusting the parts relative to one another and also screw being axially fixed with one of the structural parts so as to be rotatable relative to the latter and threadingly connecta...
09/26/1995
5450296Auxiliary lamp mounting system for a roll bar
Auxiliary lamps may be mounted on a vehicle so that the lamps may be selectively moved out of the wind stream or into a forwardly facing position. The lamps are mounted on a rotatable rod at selectable positions anywhere along the length of the rod. The r...
09/12/1995
4733334Headlight leveling device
A vehicle headlight leveling system provides for selected adjustment of headlight alignment, in response to varying loads placed in a vehicle body riding upon a vehicle suspension system. This system utilizes a ground level detection mechanism, a headligh...
03/22/1988
4293893Apparatus for controlling light projection angle of head lamp of motor vehicle
An apparatus for controlling angular position of optical axis of a head lamp assembly for a motor vehicle. An actuator is supplied selectively with the atmospheric pressure and a negative pressure available from an intake conduit of an internal combustion...
10/06/1981
4276581Headlight tilting system for vehicles
This invention relates to a headlight tilting system for vehicles having pivotal frames, oscillatable via a linkage driven by an electric motor and circuitry in which a manual switch can be set to establish a circuit between the motor and a battery via co...
06/30/1981
4217631Device for adjusting an object to assume a predetermined angle to a certain plane
A device for adjusting the angular disposition of a first object with respect to a plane. The first object is adjustably attached to a second object resting on said plane. The adjustment occurs when there is a change in the angular disposition between the...
08/12/1980
4142228Vehicle lamp casing optical axis adjusting mechanism
An operating wire directly and operatively connected to a lamp casing for swingingly moving same by linear movement of the operating wire and a pulley for converting the direction of linear movement of the operating wire to the direction of swinging movem...
02/27/1979
4110819Headlight tilting control device of motor vehicle
Two headlight frames are mounted on the vehicle body front to be tilted about their lower peripheries and are usually preloaded by a spring assembly to be limitedly tilted. A manually operable lever accessible to an operator is movable to and is held in t...
08/29/1978
4037134Installation for automatic control of the light distance with motor vehicle headlights
An installation for the automatic control of the light projection distance of motor vehicle headlights in dependence on the positional change of the vehicle body, in which in case of a positional change of the vehicle body toward one side when driving thr...
07/19/1977
 
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