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US 10,180,223 B2Granted
Modular lamp components and methods for making same
AssigneeSabic Global Technologies B.V.
InventorBernd Grammer
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Abstract
A method of providing multiple headlamp configurations sharing a common vehicle-mount interface, including selecting one of at least two reflectors, the at least two reflectors sharing a common forward interface and the common vehicle-mount interface at a rearward interface, with each having a different reflector shape; affixing the selected reflector to a rear portion of a bezel shaped to conform to the common forward interface of the at least two reflectors; and affixing one of at least two lamp bezels to a forward interface of the bezel, wherein the at least two lamp bezels share a common rear portion shaped to conform to the common forward interface of the bezel, and are shaped differently at their respective front portions.
Claims16
A lamp for a vehicle, comprising:
- a reflector including a connection portion and a light source portion, wherein a light source is configured to extend through the light source portion into the reflector;
- a bezel comprising an adaptor portion including an adaptor portion geometry and a reflector receiving portion including a geometry shaped to conform to receive and conform to the reflector;
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- at least two lenses each comprising a junction portion including a lens junction portion geometry, wherein the junction portion of each lens has a different lens junction portion geometry;
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- at least two adapter bezels, wherein each adaptor bezel comprises a lens adaption portion and a bezel adaption portion geometry, wherein the lens adaption portion of each adaptor bezel has a different adaptor bezel geometry, and wherein the bezel adaption portion geometry of one of the at least two adaptor bezels mates with the adaptor portion of the bezel;
- wherein the adaptor bezel geometry of a first adaptor bezel of the at least two adaptor bezels mates with the junction portion of a first lens of the at least two lenses, and wherein the adaptor bezel geometry of a second adaptor bezel of the at least two adaptor bezels mates with the junction portion of a second lens of the at least two lenses;
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- wherein the junction portion of the first lens of the at least two lenses is shaped differently than the junction portion of the second lens of the at least two lenses such that the first lens is incompatible with the second adaptor bezel and the second lens is incompatible with the first adaptor bezel.
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A method of making a lamp for a vehicle, comprising:
- attaching a bezel to a reflector including a connection portion and a light source portion, wherein a light source is configured to extend through the light source portion into the reflector when attached to the reflector, wherein the bezel comprises an adaptor portion including an adaptor portion geometry and a reflector receiving portion including a geometry configured to receive the reflector;
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- attaching one of at least two lenses, each lens comprising a junction portion including a different lens junction portion geometry, to the bezel,
- wherein if the lens junction portion geometry are mateable with the adaptor portion geometry, then the lens junction portion is attached to the adaptor portion;
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- wherein if the lens junction portion geometry are not mateable with the adaptor portion geometry, then one of at least two adaptor bezels is located between the lens junction portion and the adaptor portion, and wherein each adaptor bezel has a lens adaption portion with a different geometry to mate with the lens junction portion, and has a bezel adaption portion geometry to mate with the adaptor portion;
- wherein the adaptor bezel geometry of a first adaptor bezel of the at least two adaptor bezels mates with the junction portion of a first lens of the at least two lenses, and wherein the adaptor bezel geometry of a second adaptor bezel of the at least two adaptor bezels mates with the junction portion of a second lens of the at least two lenses;
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- wherein the junction portion of the first lens of the at least two lenses is shaped differently than the junction portion of the second lens of the at least two lenses such that the first lens is incompatible with the second adaptor bezel and the second lens is incompatible with the first adaptor bezel.
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A method of providing multiple headlamp configurations sharing a common vehicle-mount interface, the method comprising:
- selecting one of at least two reflectors, the at least two reflectors sharing a common forward interface and the common vehicle-mount interface at a rearward interface, with each having a different reflector shape;
- affixing the selected reflector to a rear portion of a bezel shaped to conform to the common forward interface of the at least two reflectors;
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- affixing one of at least two lamp bezels to a forward interface of the bezel, wherein the at least two lamp bezels share a common rear portion shaped to conform to the common forward interface of the bezel, and are shaped differently at their respective front portions;
- affixing one of two lenses to a front portion of the selected lamp bezel, wherein the other of the two lenses is shaped differently than the selected lens such that the other of the two lenses is incompatible with mounting to the front portion of the selected lamp bezel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.