Lighting apparatus for vehicles and mounting method
AssigneeHella GmbH & Co. KGaA
InventorRainer Hess
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Abstract
A lighting apparatus for vehicles, including a light-source device containing a light source and a light source carrier; an optical device for generating a predefined light distribution; and a cooling device for the light source; the light source being fastened relative to the optical device in a target calibration position, and the light source carrier being fastened in the target calibration position between a contact surface of the optical device and a contact surface of the cooling device.
Claims10
A lighting apparatus for vehicles, with
- a light source device (1) including a light source (6) and a light source carrier (7),
- an optics device (2) for generating a predetermined light distribution and
- a cooling device (3) for the light source (6),
- wherein the light source (6) is fastened in a reference aligning position relative to the optics device (2), and wherein the light source carrier (7) is fastened in the reference aligning position between an abutment surface (18) of the optics device (2) and an abutment surface (11) of the cooling device (3).
A method for mounting a lighting apparatus, wherein a light source device (1) comprising a light source (6) and a light source carrier (7) is brought into and fixed in a reference aligning position relative to an optics device (2),
- wherein in a first step, the light source carrier (7) is positioned at an abutment surface (18) of the optics device (2),
- wherein in a second step, the light source carrier (7) is moved relative to the optics device (2) in a plane of extent (E) having the abutment surface (18) into a reference aligning position for the orientation of the light source (6) with respect to the optics device (2), and
- wherein lastly, the light source carrier (7) is clamped between the abutment surface (18) of the optics device (2) and an abutment surface (11) of the cooling device (3).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.