EP3124854A1 - Beleuchtungssystem für kraftfahrzeugscheinwerfer - Google Patents

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EP3124854A1
EP3124854A1 EP16181306.8A EP16181306A EP3124854A1 EP 3124854 A1 EP3124854 A1 EP 3124854A1 EP 16181306 A EP16181306 A EP 16181306A EP 3124854 A1 EP3124854 A1 EP 3124854A1
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Yves Gromfeld
Sylvain Giraud
Jean-François Doha
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  • the present invention relates to a lighting system.
  • a preferred application relates to the automotive industry for the production of signaling and / or lighting devices, in particular vehicle headlights.
  • this beam has a cut in the upper part with a horizontal portion, preferably about 0.57 degrees below the horizon, so as not to illuminate the area in which should be the driver of a vehicle coming in the opposite direction .
  • Many of these light emitting devices are generally horizontally aligned at an optical block at the front of a vehicle, thereby forming a lighting system.
  • the output portions of the different devices are thus visible from the front of a vehicle, through the ice of the optical unit.
  • These output portions each consist of a surface of spherical shape or a surface corresponding to a torus portion for example. They are offset relative to each other, being more or less close to the ice, depending on the possibilities of positioning and electrical connection of the devices in the space available within the optical unit.
  • the exit surface thus formed by the plurality of exit portions is relatively unsightly and does not allow the curvature continuity to be maintained. the corresponding ice cream.
  • the object of the invention is thus to provide a lighting system whose outlet surface is curved, and follows the profile of the ice placed downstream.
  • the present invention thus relates to a lighting system for a motor vehicle comprising at least one primary optical device for emitting a light beam having a cut-off profile, the primary optical emission device comprising at least one light source and a monobloc primary optical member comprising an input surface adapted to receive a light beam emitted by the light source, a beam intercepting surface configured to form the cutoff profile in the received light beam and an output surface 8 of said beam luminous.
  • It can be a flat, horizontal or oblique cutoff profile. Alternatively, it may be a cutoff profile having two portions of flat cuts at an angle between them, for example 15 °.
  • the primary optical element is made of a material able to allow the propagation of the light beam within it, from the entrance surface to the exit surface by total internal reflections on the internal walls of the optical member. primary.
  • the invention thus makes it possible to create an infinity-projected LED beam, using only two optical devices, namely a primary optical emission device whose function consists in producing a cut-off profile, and a projection device of which the functions are to return the beam to infinity and present a curved and aesthetic output surface.
  • a primary optical emission device whose function consists in producing a cut-off profile
  • the primary optical emission device unsightly, will not be visible through the ice, and only the exit surface of the projection device will be visible.
  • Each primary optical transmission device contains, for example, a dioptric folding machine which makes it possible to produce the cutoff profile, like that described in the publication. FR3010772 . All the rays emitted by the light source of the emission device are focused on this dioptric folder, which then reflects these rays to an output surface of the primary optical transmission device.
  • the projection device is common for all the primary optical transmission devices, and therefore has a single curved exit surface, to address the technical problem.
  • the projection device consists of a projection lens.
  • the primary optical element has an input portion comprising the input face and arranged to form a primary image of the light source at the intercept surface.
  • the input face of the primary optical element through which the rays coming from the source penetrate, has a cavity shape.
  • This cavity has a convex surface portion towards a first focus where the source is located and advantageously symmetrical revolution along the optical axis of the primary optical element.
  • This convex surface is surrounded by a concave orientation surface, also of revolution along the optical axis of the primary optical element.
  • the concave surface is preferably spherical with a center that coincides with the first focus where the source is located.
  • the input portion is arranged to focus, for example by reflections, the light beam received at a second focus disposed at an edge of the intercepting surface.
  • the primary image is a real image of the light source.
  • the input portion may for example be a concentration collimator.
  • the input portion may comprise an ellipsoidal profile wall.
  • the primary optical element comprises an intermediate portion, extending advantageously along its optical axis as the input portion. It nevertheless has a geometrical rupture zone revealed by a hollow zone.
  • This zone forms a cavity relief in the direction of the heart of the primary optical element, towards its optical axis.
  • This hollow area can take various forms. Overall, it may be, in vertical sectional view, a notch defined by the sides of a dihedron forming an angle whose apex is directed towards the interior of the intermediate zone and constitutes a corresponding ridge instead of secondary foci. This ridge is the portion of the space where the rays interfere with the recessed area.
  • This interference part forms the interception surface allowing the creation of a cutoff profile.
  • the interception surface is at the interface with the environment surrounding the primary optical element, such as air, so that a diopter is produced at this level.
  • the rays from the source are directed by the input portion so as to converge towards the secondary focus location on the intercept surface.
  • the ray concentration can be in a quasi-point area, which implies that the input portion concentrates the reflected rays at a point or a small area of space around a midpoint whatever the place of reflection on the wall. The place of secondary foci will then be formed according to a point of focus.
  • the location of secondary foci can still be formed along a line of focus.
  • the shape of intercept surface and the focus adopted determine the cut.
  • the primary optical element finally comprises an output portion comprising the output face and arranged to form a secondary image of the primary image, the projection device being arranged to project said secondary image.
  • This output portion is arranged to form a virtual secondary image of the primary image at a third focus or a line of third foci.
  • the projection device has a focus or line of homes coincident with the third focus or the line of third homes.
  • the secondary image may be located upstream or downstream of the output face of the primary optical element.
  • Another object of the invention is a vehicle equipped with at least one lighting system as described above.
  • vertical and horizontal are used in the present description to designate directions, including beam-cutting directions, in an orientation perpendicular to the horizon plane for the term “vertical”, and in a parallel orientation. in terms of the horizon for the term “horizontal”. They are to be considered in the operating conditions of the device in a vehicle. The use of these words does not mean that slight variations around the vertical and horizontal directions are excluded from the invention. For example, an inclination relative to these directions of the order of + or - 10 ° is here considered as a minor variation around the two preferred directions.
  • parallel or the concept of axes includes here in particular with manufacturing or mounting tolerances, substantially parallel directions or substantially coinciding axes within this framework.
  • the cuts produced by the system of the invention may furthermore have any orientation in space.
  • the cut-off profile preferably refers to the formation of an output beam that is not uniformly distributed around the optical axis due to the presence of a zone of least light exposure, this zone being substantially delimited by a cut-off profile. which can be flat or oblique.
  • the lighting system comprises a light source 1 configured to emit light rays with a mean direction oriented along an axis coincident with an optical axis X of the system.
  • the light source 1 may consist of one or more sources and more particularly of one or more light-emitting diodes (LEDs). In the case of a plurality of LEDs, it is advantageous to position them in the same plane.
  • the light source 1 consists of a single LED.
  • the light source 1 cooperates with a primary optical element 2 having an ovoid shape.
  • the primary optical element 2 comprises first an inlet portion 3.
  • the latter includes a face 6 through which the rays 11 coming from the source 1 enter.
  • the face 6 has a cavity shape of so as to produce an optical member whose focus receives the source 1.
  • the cavity has a surface portion 6b, convex towards the home where the source 1 is located and advantageously symmetrical of revolution along the optical axis.
  • the surface 6b is surrounded by a surface 6a, also of revolution along the optical axis X and concave orientation.
  • the surface 6a is preferably spherical with a center coinciding with the first focus where the source 1 is located.
  • the radii 11 propagate in the input portion 3 and are maintained in the primary optical element 2 by reflection on the peripheral wall 7 of the input portion 3.
  • the latter has a dioptric function to operate a redirection of the spokes 11 to an intermediate portion 4 of the primary optical member 3 where a cut occurs, before leaving by a output portion 5.
  • the peripheral wall 7 of the input portion 3 is configured to focus the reflected rays 11 to a focusing location 9 also referred to herein as the location of secondary foci 9.
  • the wall 12 is constructed as a result of the desired focus.
  • the intermediate portion 4 advantageously extends along the optical axis X as the input portion 3. It nevertheless comprises a geometrical rupture zone revealed by the recessed zone 10.
  • This zone 10 forms a cavity relief in the direction of the core of the primary optical element 2, towards the optical axis X.
  • This hollow zone 10 can take various forms. Overall, it may be, in vertical sectional view, a notch defined by the sides of a dihedron forming an angle whose apex is directed towards the interior of the intermediate zone 4 and constitutes a ridge corresponding to the place This peak is therefore the portion of the space where the radii 11 interfere with the recessed zone 10.
  • This interference part forms the interception surface allowing the creation of a cutoff profile.
  • the intercepting surface is at the interface with the environment surrounding the primary optical element 2, such as air, so that a diopter is produced at this level.
  • the rays coming from the source 1 are directed by the input portion 3 so as to converge towards the place of secondary foci 9 located on the interception surface.
  • the ray concentration can be in a quasi-point area, which implies that the input portion 3 concentrates the reflected rays 11 at a point or a small area of the space around a median point regardless of the location of the reflection on the wall 7.
  • the location of secondary foci 9 will then be formed according to a point of focus.
  • the location of secondary foci 9 can be further formed along a line of focus.
  • all the rays 11 emitted from a point of the source 1 and contained in a vertical plane passing through this point focus at a point of the place of foci 9 and the rays emitted by the point of the source and contained in a non-vertical plane passing through this point are reflected in parallel directions to each other.
  • the interception surface shape and the focus adopted determine the cutoff.
  • the rays that are not intercepted by the intercepting surface are propagated towards the output portion 5 of the primary optical member 2.
  • This latter portion 5 acts as a projection lens and delivers the output beam 12 through an exit surface 8.
  • This beam 12 is composed of rays parallel to each other as well in a vertical plane (as is visible on the figure 1 ) only in a horizontal plane. The beam is thus directed to infinity thanks to the projection lens.
  • This outlet surface 8 is positioned just upstream of a transparent protective glass of the lighting system, and is therefore visible through this mirror.
  • the figure 2 corresponds to a possible configuration of the present invention. It takes over the lighting system of the figure 1 , as described above, with a modified output portion 5, and with the addition of a second primary optical element 14 downstream of the first primary optical element 2 and upstream of the protective glass (not shown in FIG. this figure).
  • the output portion 5 is modified in that the exit surface 8 now consists of a concentration lens 8 which slightly deflects the rays so as to concentrate them.
  • its concentration power is strong horizontally and vertically low.
  • the beam 13 at the output of the first primary optical element 2 is no longer directed towards infinity, but is divergent as is shown in FIG. figure 2 .
  • This divergent beam 13 then passes through a second primary optical element 14 which corresponds to a projection lens 14 and which delivers an output beam 17 directed towards infinity.
  • This lens comprises an entrance surface 15 and an exit surface 16.
  • the lighting system according to the invention thus comprises a device for emitting a light beam with a cut-off profile, corresponding to the first primary optical element 2, and a device for projecting the light beam at infinity corresponding to the second primary optical organ 14.
  • the surface visible through the protective glass of the lighting system is no longer the exit surface 8 of the first primary optical element 2, but the exit surface 16 of the second primary optical element 14, that is to say the exit surface 16 of the device projection 14.
  • projection lens 14 will be used in the following description.
  • the lighting system comprises several aligned emission devices.
  • the lighting system according to the invention may comprise one or more devices 2 for transmitting a light beam, but still comprises only a single projection lens 14, as illustrated in FIG. figure 3 .
  • the lighting system according to the invention may comprise one or more devices 2 for transmitting a light beam, but still comprises only a single projection lens 14, as illustrated in FIG. figure 3 .
  • the figure 3 shows in this case four emission devices 2 and a projection lens 14.
  • the x, y and z axes are identified in order to better define the orientations of the planes and radii in the following description.
  • the x and y axes are in a horizontal plane and the z axis is in a vertical plane.
  • the transmission devices 2 are arranged on the same horizontal plane and share a same line of focus 9 of the light rays at a ray intercepting surface configured to form the cutoff profile. These emission devices 2 operate simultaneously to create a high beam.
  • the figure 4 shows the path of the light rays through the lighting system according to the figure 3 , in a horizontal plane.
  • the rays originate from the four light sources 1, are reflected on the walls 7, focus on interception surfaces at the location of secondary foci 9, then are directed to the exit surfaces 8 of the emission devices 2.
  • the exit surfaces 8 have a role of concentration lens, with a relatively strong horizontal power, for concentrating the rays of the same beam almost parallel to each other in the direction of the optical axis E x of the corresponding transmission device 2 (see figure 6 ).
  • the four beams coming out of the four emission devices 2 are obviously not parallel to each other.
  • the figure 5 shows the path of the light rays through the lighting system according to the figure 3 , in a vertical plane.
  • the exit surfaces 8 consist of concentrating lenses 8 which have only a small vertical power and which deviate only slightly the rays.
  • the four beams coming out of the four emission devices 2 are therefore composed of vertically diverging rays. They then reach the entrance surface 15 of the projection lens 14. This input surface 15 reorients all the radii of all the beams almost in parallel in the same direction parallel to the direction of the general optical axis X of the projection system. 'lighting.
  • the four beams finally reach the exit surface 16 whose vertical power is low, but sufficient to ensure that all the beams of all the beams are oriented perfectly parallel to the general optical axis X.
  • the figure 6 corresponds to the figure 4 with the schematization of the dimensions of the devices and orientations of the optical axes, the references of the parts not being inscribed for more legibility.
  • the general optical axis X of the lighting system is represented under the lighting devices 2 and the projection lens 14. It represents the direction of the beams 17 in output of the lighting system, which are directed to infinity.
  • the optical axes E 1 to E 4 of the lighting devices are inclined with respect to the general optical axis X, respectively of an angle ⁇ 1 to ⁇ 4 . This inclination can rise to 45 ° for example, depending on the desired beam width at the output of the lighting system.
  • the projection lens 14 is not arranged perpendicularly to the general optical axis X of the lighting system.
  • the exit surface 16 of the projection lens 14 is inclined at an angle ⁇ , for example 14 °, with respect to the perpendicular to the general optical axis X. This angle ⁇ depends on the orientation of ice.
  • the thickness a of the projection lens 14 is variable between 2mm and 40mm.
  • Its length b is at least as great as the total addition of the widths of the four emission devices 2 so as to cover and hide them, as illustrated in FIG. figure 7 especially.
  • This length b is preferably of the order of 80 mm.
  • the length e of the emission devices is preferably between 20 mm and 70 mm.
  • the projection lens 14 may be located, for example, only 20mm from the exit surfaces 8 of the transmission device in order to obtain the most compact lighting system possible.
  • the shape of the exit surface of each emission device 2 is adapted to the shape of the entrance surface of the projection lens 14 to limit optical aberrations and improve the performance of the lighting system.
  • the figure 7 is a front view of the lighting system, which shows the exit surface 16 of the projection lens 14 which hides the emission devices 2.
  • the inclination ⁇ of the lighting system relative to the horizontal may be 3 ° for example. It is therefore a minor inclination to the horizontal, as was announced at the beginning of the description in the definition of the term "horizontal".
  • the height c of the lighting system is for example 25mm, and the total length d is 130mm.
  • the exit surface 16 is concave with a radius of preferably 140 mm.
  • this exit surface 16 is mostly a style surface, which can take various other forms.
  • this exit surface 16 is formed by a scan of two rays, namely a vertical radius 18 scanned on a horizontal radius 19.
  • the inlet and outlet surfaces 16 of the projection lens 14 are made of transparent thermoplastic polymer, of the polycarbonate (PA) or polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) type. They can also be made of silicone or other transparent materials, in particular depending on the desired refractive index.
  • the output surface 16 is a non-modifiable input parameter since its purpose is to follow the ice curve, the input surface 15 is an optical resultant to guarantee the Fermat optical principle. Its shape can be convex, concave or free form.
  • the entrance surface 15 can be made in a number of ways, depending on the type of projection lens desired. It can be concave, as can be seen in figure 10a if a focus line lens 20 is desired. This is the case described in figure 4 with the virtual focus line 18.
  • the input surface 15 is discretized with four sections 25 26 27 28 interconnected. Each section is adapted to the type of light placed upstream. In the example in figure 11 , the first section 25 and the fourth section are adapted to types of light that deliver a rather concentrated and intense lighting. The second 26 and third sections 27 are adapted to light types that will produce a rather low intensity lighting and spread horizontally. These four types of light work simultaneously to create a low beam. Unlike the high beams described above, the secondary focus lines of these four lights are not aligned.
  • the last figure 12 shows an example of integration of such a lighting system in a conventional lighting module with a radiator 24 and an electronic card 23 supplying the various LEDs.
  • a protective housing 22 integral with the ice at least partially surrounds the lighting system.
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