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US 8,203,274 B2Granted
LED and thermal management module for a vehicle headlamp
OwnerErwin L. De Castroinventor
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Abstract
The LED headlamps for vehicles provide a modular efficient light source for vehicle headlamps. The invention addresses the LED negative temperature coefficient in efficient heat removal system. Beam direction and pattern is controlled by its composite lens beam shaping mechanism. The beam targeting using the LED source is done through beam shaping via lens surface shaping, lens curvature contouring and composite lens component offsetting from the LED source or outgoing beam axis to direct the light beam.
Claims15
An LED light source module comprising:
- an LED array light source on backing thermally coupled to a first cooling fin element;
- the first cooling fin element thermally coupled to the LED with the opposite side having an array of perpendicularly protruding cooling fin short legs with distal ends adjacent to a fan, protruding cooling fin leg array supported by a substantially thin flat base element;
- the thin flattened fan in a plane parallel to the first cooling fin base element, sandwiched between the first cooling fin element and a second cooling fin element, wherein the fan electrically coupled to a power source;
- the second cooling fin element juxtaposed and parallel to the first cooling fin element, comprising a flat base supporting an array of protruding cooling fin short legs with distal ends adjacent to the fan and base ends coupled to the thin base element in a plane parallel to the plane of the fan, the base element side opposite the leg array thermally coupled to an LED driver circuit board;
- the LED driver circuit board with electronic circuitry for supplying the LED light source with voltage and current of a predetermined waveform and magnitude to power the LED source in accordance with electrical requirements of the LED and electronics;
- an optical composite lens comprising a at least one partial aspheric lens configured with respect to the LED array light source beam centerline;
- whereby the LED light module contains a compactly structured LED light source with beam shaping composite lens for collimating and directing light onto a desired forward pattern, associated thermal management and control circuitry for minimizing the LED negative temperature coefficient character, all in one package.
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