EP0942634A2 - HID Kraftfahrzeugscheinwerfer - Google Patents

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EP0942634A2
EP0942634A2 EP99104596A EP99104596A EP0942634A2 EP 0942634 A2 EP0942634 A2 EP 0942634A2 EP 99104596 A EP99104596 A EP 99104596A EP 99104596 A EP99104596 A EP 99104596A EP 0942634 A2 EP0942634 A2 EP 0942634A2
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Kenichi c/o Toyo Denso K. K. Masuda
Tsutomu c/o Toyo Denso K. K. Hasegawa
Fuminori c/o Toyo Denso K. K. Teramoto
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B41/00—Circuit arrangements or apparatus for igniting or operating discharge lamps
    • H05B41/02—Details
    • H05B41/04—Starting switches
    • H05B41/042—Starting switches using semiconductor devices

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  • the present invention relates to an HID (High Intensity Discharge) head lamp device using HID lamps as headlights of a vehicle.
  • HID High Intensity Discharge
  • FIG. 12 there is shown a conventional arrangement for using an HID lamp as a headlight of a vehicle is shown in Fig. 12, wherein an HID lamp socket 4 is provided in a lamp-mounting place of the vehicle and a single solid lamp-lighting unit 5, which is formed by potting a printed circuit board with a DC-DC converter, a control circuit, a lamp lighting circuit, a high-voltage generating transformer in a housing with insulating resin material poured in melted state and solidified therein, is separately mounted in a bonnet of the vehicle, then the lamp-lighting unit 5 is connected to the lamp socket by using a high-voltage cable 6 and a low-voltage cable 7.
  • Two HID head-lamp devices each composed of the lamp lighting unit 5 with the socket 4 are separately mounted left and right on the front of the vehicle.
  • Fig. 13 shows a typical circuit configuration of a HID lamp lighting unit 5.
  • An HID head lamp LP fitted in a socket 4 connected to a secondary side of a high-voltage generating transformer 3 is fired by a high voltage (about 25 KV) generated at the secondary coil of the transformer 3 by applying a starting voltage to a lamp lighting circuit 2 (with a switch circuit 21 being ON) under the control of a control circuit (ECU) 1 when a lighting switch SW is turned on.
  • ECU control circuit
  • the switch circuit portion 21 is turned off and the maintaining voltage is applied to the secondary coil of the transformer 3 to maintain the lighting of the lamp LP.
  • BAT designates a battery mounted in a vehicle and numeral 8 denotes a DC-DC converter.
  • the above-described conventional HID head lamp device consisting of a lamp socket 4 and a lamp lighting unit 5 and mounted left or right on the front portion of a vehicle requires replacement of the entire unit 5 if any trouble occurs with its internal component such as an ECU and any circuit element or an internal circuit.
  • the device requires separate arrangement of the lamp socket apart from the lamp lighting unit and interconnection of them by using a high-voltage cable 6 and a low-voltage cable 7. This complicates the mounting work of the unit. Furthermore, the use of elongated high-voltage cable may be associated with the risk of a leak current therefrom, which may cause reduction of the output voltage of the discharge lamp unit and affect the other peripheral electrical devices.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide an HID head lamp device that is compact, easy to mount and easy to repair, when any trouble occurs with an ECU or a circuit element or a circuit of the device, by replacing only a defective one of the components.
  • This device comprises, therefore, two separately mountable head-lamp units each of which is a single solid unit having a lamp socket fitted thereon and a head-lamp lighting circuit with a transformer potted therein with insulating resin poured in a melted state and solidified therein, a separate control circuit (ECU) with a DC-DC converter, which is commonly used for control of two head-lamp units mounted left and right on a front portion of the vehicle.
  • ECU separate control circuit
  • DC-DC converter which is commonly used for control of two head-lamp units mounted left and right on a front portion of the vehicle.
  • an HID head lamp device comprises a pair of head lamp units 9 each of which is a single solid unit in which a lamp lighting circuit 2, a transformer 3 and a lamp socket 1 for an HID lamp LP are potted therein with insulating resin poured in a melted state and solidified therein, and a control circuit (ECU) 1 provided with a lighting switch SW and a DC-DC converter 8, which circuit can control both the left and right head lamp units 91 and 92 connected in parallel thereto.
  • ECU control circuit
  • the device thus uses a single control circuit 1 and a single DC-DC converter 8 in common for the left and right head-lamp units, realizing saving in the number of parts and improving a space factor when it is mounted in the vehicle.
  • the device in which a failure arose can be repaired by locating a defect in device and by partly replacing the fault-related component among the control circuit 1, the DC-DC converter and the head lamp units 91 and 92.
  • the head lamp unit 9 has the lamp socket 4 integrally formed thereon and, therefore, can be mounted with no need for laying an elongated high-voltage cable between the socket and the head lamp unit.
  • the head lamp unit 9 is constructed by way of example as shown in Figs. 2 to 5.
  • a coil case 12 has three conducting plates 13 insert-formed on the periphery thereof and an HID lamp socket 4 coaxially formed thereon and accommodates therein a secondary coil unit 14 inserted in such a way that its output terminal is electrically connected with a terminal of the socket 4.
  • the coil case 12 with the secondary coil unit 14 is then mounted on a printed circuit board 15 which has a circuit pattern of a lamp lighting circuit (2) with circuit elements previously mounted thereon, which circuit is completed with the coil case 12 with the secondary coil unit 14 incorporated therein.
  • the printed circuit board 15 also has a circuit pattern of a primary coil circuit to be completed by connecting in series thereto the three conducting plates 13 of the coil case 12.
  • An assembly consisting of the coil case 12, the secondary coil unit 14 and the printed circuit board 15 is then mounted in a housing 17 having a power supply socket 18 integrally formed thereon in such a way that the top of the lamp socket 4 projects from the housing and the primary coil input terminal is electrically connected with the power-supply socket terminal. All of the inside components are then potted in the housing 17 with insulating resin poured in a melted state and solidified therein to form a single solid unit.
  • a coil case 12 with an HID lamp socket coaxially fitted thereon is illustrated in Figs. 7 to 9.
  • the coil case 12 has an opening formed in its bottom for inserting therein a secondary coil unit 14. Terminal pins 131 of the respective conducting plates insert-formed on the periphery of the coil case 12 are projecting from the bottom of the coil case 12.
  • the coil case 12 is mounted at a designated place on the printed circuit board 15 in such a way that the terminal pins are inserted into corresponding holes 151 provided in the printed board 15 and bonded therein.
  • the conducting plates 13 are in series connected on the circuit pattern 152 previously formed on the printed circuit board 15 to complete a primary coil circuit as shown in Fig. 11.
  • the HID lamp socket 4 has a high voltage terminal 19 disposed at its center portion and a low voltage terminal 20 disposed near thereto.
  • the secondary coil unit 14 consists of a bobbin 142 having a secondary coil 141 wound thereon and a core 143 inserted in a hollow center thereof.
  • the coil bobbin 142 has an end flange 421 with an input electrode 11 to which the starting end of the secondary coil 141 connected.
  • the coil case 12 is mounted at the designated place on the printed circuit board 15 in such a way that a terminal pin 111 of the input electrode 11 is inserted in a hole 115 provided in the printed circuit board 15.
  • the terminal pins are bonded therein and connected thereby with the input voltage line +E (see Fig. 5).
  • the coil bobbin 142 also has the other end flange 422 with an output electrode 112 to which the end of the secondary coil 141 connected.
  • a terminal pin 111 of the output electrode 11 becomes in contact with a rear-end portion 191 of the high-voltage terminal 19 in the socket 4, which portion projects into the coil case 12 (Fig. 6).
  • the secondary coil unit 14 is then integrally potted in the coil case 12 with insulating resin poured in a melted state and solidified therein.
  • Figs. 10 and 11 are illustrative of a printed circuit board 15 to be implemented with a discharge lamp.
  • the printed circuit board 15 is provided with the coil case 12 incorporating the secondary coil unit 14 on the top surface (Fig. 10) and is also implemented at the same surface with circuit elements 16 such as switching elements and capacitors on the same surface.
  • the printed circuit board 15 is also implemented with circuit elements 16 such as resistance and diodes on the bottom surface (Fig. 11). These circuit elements interconnected by the wiring pattern formed on the printed circuit board to form thereon a lamp lighting circuit 16 as shown in Fig. 13.
  • the printed circuit board 15 has paired holes 154 and 155 made therein for a grounding (GND) terminal and a driving voltage (+E) terminal respectively.
  • GND grounding
  • (+E driving voltage
  • a high voltage necessary for lighting an HID head lamp LP is generated by the transformer 3 but it may not affect the circuit elements 16 on the printed circuit board 15 disposed near the coil case 12 owing to a shielding effect of the conducting plates 13 provided on the periphery of the coil case 12.
  • the output terminal of the secondary coil 141 can be directly connected to the high-voltage terminal 19 of the socket 4 with no need of additional high-voltage wiring onto the printed circuit board and laying a high-voltage cable.
  • the unit thus realizes the simple and optimal connection of its high-voltage portion.
  • a compact HID-lamp lighting circuit is formed when the high-voltage generating transformer 3 composed of the secondary coil unit 14 inserted in the coil case 12 is simply mounted at the designated place on the printed circuit board.
  • the board 15 is simply mounted in the housing 12, by which the electrical connection between the printed circuit board 15 and the power-supply socket portion 18 provided on the housing 12 is completed with no need of doing any additional wiring work.
  • the head lamp unit 9 thus assembled is compact and can be directly mounted in a limited space of a headlight mounting portion of the vehicle.
  • This unit is easy to assemble since it requires only connection of a power source to the power-supply socket portion 18 thereof, thus eliminating the need of using an elongated high-voltage cable.
  • the HID head lamp device which can drive each of HID headlights by generating a high voltage at a secondary side of a transformer by applying a starting voltage to a lamp lighting circuit under the control of a control circuit when a lighting switch is turned on and can maintain lighting of the HID lamp by applying a maintaining voltage to the secondary side of the transformer after lighting the HID lamp.
  • This device comprises left and right head lamp units each having a single solid housing in which a lamp-lighting circuit, a high voltage generating transformer and an HID lamp socket are potted with insulating resin poured in a melted state and solidified therein, and a single control circuit capable of controlling both the left and right head lamp units.
  • the HID head lamp device of the present invention is easy to mount in a vehicle and allows the head lamp units and the control circuit to be selectively replaced with new ones in the event the device fails due to a trouble with the control unit (ECU) or the circuit elements in any head lamp unit or damage of circuitry therein.
  • ECU control unit
  • An HID head lamp device capable of driving each of HID headlights by generating a high voltage at a secondary coil of a transformer by applying a starting voltage to a lamp firing circuit under the control of a control circuit when a lighting switch is turned on and maintaining the lighting of the HID lamp by applying a maintaining voltage to the secondary coil of the transformer after firing the HID lamp, which device composed of left and right head-lamp units, each unit formed by potting a lamp lighting circuit, a transformer assembly and a lamp socket in a housing with insulating resin poured in melted state and solidified therein, and a control unit for control the head lamp units, and which device is very compact, easy to mount on a vehicle body and easy to repair by exchanging only a faulty unit with new one when a fault such as a breakage of a circuit took place in the ECU or any of the lamp units.

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JP9980598A JPH11260573A (ja) 1998-03-09 1998-03-09 車両用ｈｉｄ前照灯装置
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EP1135010A3 (de) * 2000-03-10 2004-10-27 Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. Zündungsanordnung für eine Entladungslampe
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EP1135009A3 (de) * 2000-03-10 2003-12-03 Stanley Electric Corporation Zündvorrichtung einer Entladungslampe
EP1135010A3 (de) * 2000-03-10 2004-10-27 Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. Zündungsanordnung für eine Entladungslampe
WO2009104113A1 (en) * 2008-02-20 2009-08-27 Philips Intellectual Property & Standards Gmbh High voltage transformer with space-saving primary windings
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WO2010060825A2 (de) * 2008-11-28 2010-06-03 Osram Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung Integrierte gasentladungslampe
WO2010060825A3 (de) * 2008-11-28 2010-09-23 Osram Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung Integrierte gasentladungslampe
CN108501723A (zh) * 2017-11-27 2018-09-07 安徽特凯新能源科技有限公司 一种具有纠错能力的电池管理系统

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