Illumination Device for a Motor Vehicle Headlight and Motor Vehicle Headlight

An illumination device (100) for a motor vehicle headlight, the illumination device (100) comprising:

• an illumination unit (101), which comprises:
• an optical body (1) with an optical body light exit surface (10), wherein the optical body (1) is formed from an optically transparent material;
• a plurality of light guiding bodies (2), wherein each light guiding body (2) has a light entry surface (2a) and a light exit surface (2b);
• and
• at least one light source (3) for each light guiding body (2), wherein the at least one light source (3) of a light guiding body (2) can only inject light into this light guiding body (2), and wherein the light from the at least one light source (3) of a light guiding body (2) is injected into the light guiding body (2) via the light entry surface (2a) thereof,
• wherein the light guiding bodies (2) are formed from an optically transparent material such that light that enters a light guiding body (2) can propagate from the light entry surface (2a) to the light exit surface (2b) and wherein at least some of the light injected into the light guiding body (2) and striking lateral boundary surfaces (2c) of the light guiding body (2) is totally reflected at the boundary surfaces (2c),
• wherein the light guiding bodies (2) are arranged side-by-side,
• wherein the light guiding bodies (2) merge into the optical body (1) with their light exit surfaces (2b) in an optical body merging surface (11) opposite the optical body light exit surface (10) of the optical body (1),
• wherein the light guiding bodies (2) are arranged in such a way that light exit surfaces (2b) of adjacent light guiding bodies (2) have a distance from one another greater than zero resulting respectively in an open space (12) between two adjacent light guiding bodies (2) on the optical body merging surface (11),
• wherein the illumination device (100) further comprises a projection device (500), which displays the light emitted by the light sources (3) in the form of segmented light distribution (FLV),
• wherein the illumination unit (101) further comprises an additional optical device (200), which has at least one light entry area (201) and which has one or more light extraction areas (202), wherein each light entry area (201) is associated with at least one additional light source (250), and wherein at least some of the light injected by an additional light source (250) into the additional optical device (250) via a light entry area (201) propagates in the additional optical device (250) to the one or more light extraction areas (202) and leaves the additional optical device (200) there, and
• wherein respectively at least one light extraction area (202) is arranged between two adjacent light guiding bodies (2) in such a way that light exiting the light extraction area (202) can enter the optical body (1) via the open space (12) between the two light guiding bodies (2) and can propagate therein to the optical body light exit surface (10) of the optical body (1).