Zkw Group Gmbh

Michael Brunner

Bettina Reisinger

Christian Jackl

Stefan Mitterlehner

Johann Altmann

Peter Schadenhofer

Josef Gürtl

Alexander Hacker

Peter Mayer

Peter Hartmann

Matthäus Artmann

Julian Baker

Florian Wagner

Martin Ebner

Michael Salzer

A method for controlling an adaptive motor vehicle headlight (AMVH), wherein a first data storage device (DSD) is assigned to the AMVH, which is designed to emit different segmented light distributions having a resolution of at least 2×12 and has light sources arranged in segments for this purpose, each segment including at least one LED light source. The method includes: a) providing the AMVH and the first DSD and storing a number of data sets on the first DSD, b) connecting the AMVH to a motor vehicle, which is designed to output control data for controlling the AMVH, c) transmitting the control data by the motor vehicle to the AMVH, wherein the AMVH has an internal computing unit, which receives the control data and selects and retrieves data sets stored in the first DSD as a function of the control data ('active data sets'), d) controlling the light sources arranged in the segments by the computing unit in accordance with the active data sets, d1) determining the number of active data sets, wherein the control data is used to give each active data set an individual percentage weighting, d2) determining target light intensities to be output of each segment by superimposing the light intensity values that can be derived from the active data sets taking the respective weighting into account, d3) outputting the target light intensities for each segment taking into account a permissible maximum temporal rate of change of the light intensity that can be predetermined.

Method for controlling adaptive motor vehicle headlight

A motor vehicle (), which can be operated in a self-driving mode, wherein the motor vehicle includes an illumination system () for generating light signal messages to individual road users, which includes a lighting device () and a control device, wherein the lighting device () includesand wherein the lighting device () is arranged encircling the motor vehicle in such a manner that when the one lighting device () is switched on, the optical diffuser () is perceptible as visually continuously shining light ring.

Motor vehicle

The invention relates to a motor vehicle headlight (), comprising a headlight housing () and a cover plate () having at least one light source () arranged in said motor vehicle headlight (). In order to cool the at least one light source (), a heat sink device () is provided. Said heat sink device () comprises two heat sink elements () that are separated from one another by an air gap () and that are arranged in such a way that a first heat sink element () is mounted inside the motor vehicle headlight (), and a second heat sink element () is mounted outside the motor vehicle headlight (). The heat sink device () is provided with a contacting device () that allows a heat exchange between the heat sink elements () via said contacting device (), whenever the temperature inside the motor vehicle headlight () is higher than the temperature in the area outside the motor vehicle headlight (), and no heat exchange between the heat sink elements () is possible whenever the temperature inside the motor vehicle headlight () is lower than the temperature in the area outside the motor vehicle headlight ().

Heat sink having variable thermal resistance

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Poggstall, Austria

Michael Brunner