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US 11,230,224 B2Granted
Lamp for vehicle
AssigneeSL Corporation
InventorsHyeong Do Kim, Jong Woon Kim, Chang Ho Ryu
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Abstract
A lamp for a vehicle includes a light source unit that generates light and an optical unit for guiding the light. The light source unit includes a plurality of light sources arranged in a matrix shape, and the optical unit includes a plurality of optical members disposed in a traveling direction of the light. The light generated from the plurality of light sources passes through the optical unit to form a beam pattern.
Claims29
A lamp for a vehicle comprising:
- a light source unit that generates light;
- and
- an optical unit for guiding the light,
- wherein the light source unit comprises a plurality of light sources arranged in a matrix shape,
- wherein the optical unit comprises a plurality of optical members disposed in a traveling direction of the light,
- wherein the light generated from the plurality of light sources passes through the optical unit to form a beam pattern,
- wherein at least one of the plurality of light sources is turned off to form a shadow zone in the beam pattern, and at least one adjacent light source that is adjacent to the at least one light source forming the shadow zone is configured to generate a reduced amount of light, without being turned off, to expand the shadow zone and form an adjacent area of the shadow zone,
- wherein the plurality of optical members comprise a first set of optical members and a second set of optical members,
- wherein all of the first set of optical members are formed of a first material, and all of the second set of optical members are formed of a second material that is different from the first material, and
- wherein the plurality of optical members comprise an even number of the second set of optical members formed of the second material, a half of the even number of the second set of optical members formed of the second material are light converging optical members and another half of the even number of the second set of optical members formed of the second material are light diverging optical members such that aberration due to thermal expansion of the light converging optical members is corrected by thermal expansion of the light diverging optical members.
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