IP Library Granted Patent US 8,100,570
Granted Patent B2
US 8,100,570 · App. 12/476,250 · Granted Jan 24, 2012

LED lens mounting device

Assignee: Hella KGAA Hueck & Co.
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Patent No.
US 8,100,570
App. No.
12/476,250
Granted
Jan 24, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A headlight for a vehicle has a lens, a mounting frame, an LED on an LED board. The LED board is mounted on a heat sink. The heat sink has a first adjustment slot and a second adjustment slot. Each of the slots is dimensioned and disposed to closely cooperate with an eccenter adjustment device mounted on one of the LED module or an LED module carrier, said eccenters being adjustable on a fulcrum such that adjustment of one of the eccenters adjusts one of a first position or a second position of the LED module within a plane normal to an optical axis of a lens mounted in a fixed position relative to the LED module carrier.

Claims (18)

1. An LED module comprising:

an LED on an LED board, said board being mounted on a heat sink;

a first adjustment slot in said heat sink

a second adjustment slot in said heat sink;

each of said slots being dimensioned and disposed to closely cooperate with an eccenter adjustment device mounted on one of said LED module or an LED module carrier, said eccenters each being adjustable on a fulcrum such that adjustment of each of said eccenters adjust one of a first position or a second position of said LED module relative to a lens mounted in a fixed position relative to said LED module carrier.

2. The LED module of claim 1 wherein said adjustment positions are in a plane normal to an optical axis of said lens.

3. The LED module of claim 1 further comprising mounting screws engageable to mount said LED module to said LED module carrier.

4. The LED module of claim 3 wherein said mounting screws adjust said LED module along an optical axis of the lens.

5. A headlight for a vehicle comprising:

a lens;

a mounting frame;

an LED on an LED board, said board being mounted on a heat sink;

a first adjustment slot in said heat sink;

a second adjustment slot in said heat sink;

each of said slots being dimensioned and disposed to closely cooperate with an eccenter adjustment device mounted on one of said LED module or an LED module carrier, said eccenters each being adjustable on a fulcrum such that adjustment of each of said eccenters adjust one of a first position or a second position of said LED module relative to a lens mounted in a fixed position relative to said LED module carrier.

6. The headlight of claim 5 wherein said adjustment positions are in a plane normal to an optical axis of said lens.

7. The headlight of claim 5 further comprising mounting screws engageable to mount said LED module to said LED module carrier.

8. The headlight of claim 7 wherein said mounting screws adjust said LED module along an optical axis of the lens.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 23, 2018
From: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
To: HELLA GMBH & CO. KGAA
Reel/Frame 046219/0517 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 2, 2009
From: BORGSCHULTE, HUBERT; SPORK, HEINZ-UWE; SUDAHL, JORG
To: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
Reel/Frame 022763/0685 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61058787 · Jun 4, 2008
Related Publication 20090303726A1 · Dec 10, 2009