US 3,935,444 AGranted

Polarized light beam source in a vehicle headlight

AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH

InventorsRichard Zechnall, Ernst Linder, Albert Schmid, Gotthold Raabe, Karl Kerner, Rudi Socknick

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Abstract

A polarizer structure for a headlight includes an interference-type polarizer followed by an absorption-type polarizer. The interference-type polarizer in one form of the invention is constituted by rectangular plate polarizing sections in a zigzag arrangement, so that the apex angle formed by adjacent polarizing sections is always 90.degree. while the angle of each polarizing section to the optic axis is 45.degree.. In another form of the invention, the polarizer sections are arranged in a diverging louvre arrangement provided with reflecting layers between the polarizing sections, both the polarizing sections and the reflecting layers at an angle of 45.degree. with the optic axis.

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Dependent claims

A polarized light headlight for a vehicle, comprising:

an interference-type polarizing means (12) comprising polarizing sections (12a, 12b, 12c, 12d) disposed in diverging louvre fashion about a longitudinal median plane of an incident light beam and a set of reflecting layers (14a, 14b, 14c, 14d) alternating between adjacent and similarly directed polarizing sections,
said polarizing sections and said reflecting layers each being set at an angle of 45.degree. to said median plane, said polarizing sections and said reflecting layers being so constituted that no part of the incident beam reaching said interference-type polarizer fails to impinge either on one of said polarizing sections or on one of said reflecting layers,
said polarizing sections and reflecting layers being of such contours that the projection of each of them perpendicularly on said median plane is substantially a rectangle and all said rectangles are substantially congruent.

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