Dual axis alignment for led prescription optics
AssigneeMagWerks Vision Inc.
InventorsMichael F. Pickholz, Steven Francis Tregilgas
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Abstract
A vehicle lamp is configured to mount directly to a vehicle component. The vehicle lamp includes a substrate, a lens, a compliant skirt made of silicone extending from a front perimeter of the lens and extending to the substrate, the compliant skirt configured to gaplessly fit within a vehicle aperture in the vehicle component and to attach to the vehicle component with the substrate, a reinforcing structure configured to provide strength to the vehicle lamp, the reinforcing structure connecting the lens to the substrate, and an adjustment mechanism extending through the reinforcing structure and the substrate and configured to move the lens about one or both of a vertical axis and a horizontal axis.
Claims20
A vehicle lamp configured to mount directly to a vehicle component, the vehicle lamp comprising:
- a substrate;
- a lens;
- a compliant skirt made of silicone extending from a front perimeter of the lens and extending to the substrate, the compliant skirt configured to gaplessly fit within a vehicle aperture in the vehicle component and to attach the vehicle component with the substrate;
- a reinforcing structure configured to provide strength to the vehicle lamp, the reinforcing structure connecting the lens to the substrate;
- and
- an adjustment mechanism extending through the reinforcing structure and the substrate and configured to move the lens about one or both of a vertical axis and a horizontal axis.
A vehicle lamp, comprising:
- a substrate having a surface on which at least one light source is carried, the substrate having a first aperture;
- a total internal reflector made of silicone;
- a compliant skirt made of silicone and extending between a front surface of the total internal reflector and the substrate, the compliant skirt configured to gaplessly fit within a vehicle aperture in the vehicle component and to attach the vehicle component with the substrate;
- a reinforcing structure configured to provide strength to the silicone, the reinforcing structure connecting the total internal reflector to the substrate and having a second aperture that aligns with the first aperture;
- and
- an adjustment mechanism extending through the first aperture and the second aperture, the adjustment mechanism fixedly attached to the reinforcing structure and movably attached to the substrate, wherein movement of the adjustment mechanism moves the total internal reflector about an axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.