Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle headlamp with laser for alignment of projected beam pattern, and method
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Application No.: US15499134Application Date: 2017-04-27
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Publication No.: US10337954B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Stephen Kenneth Helwig , David A. Brown , Simon Howard Curwood , Diane Marie LaHaie , Matt W. Roosen , Brian Carroll , Ken Alan Ward
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Price Heneveld LLP
- Agent Vichit Chea
- Main IPC: G01M11/06
- IPC: G01M11/06 ; B60Q1/068 ; F21S41/19

Abstract:
A vehicle headlamp includes a housing, at least one lamp located in the housing, at least one beam alignment light source positioned in the housing and configured to project an image to aid in alignment of the at least one lamp, and at least one beam alignment mechanism operably coupled to the housing and configured to adjust the direction of light from the at least one lamp based on an image projected by the beam alignment light source.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180312103A1 LASER ALIGNMENT OF HEADLAMP BEAM PATTERN Public/Granted day:2018-11-01
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