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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2019
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Loucas Tsakalakos, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Chen-Po Chen, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Binoy M. Shah, Niskayuna, NY (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A lighting system for a navigational system of a vehicle includes a scanning unit and one or more lighting assemblies. Each lighting assembly includes one or more laser diodes configured to emit light, a lens array including one or more lens elements, and a controller electrically coupled with each of the laser diodes. The lens array receives incoming light from the laser diodes and direct the incoming light from the lens array as a collimated beam. The controller individually controls a power level of each of the laser diodes. The laser diodes, the lens array, and the controller are disposed on a substrate and disposed in a common housing. Each lighting assembly is arranged in an arc relative to the scanning unit. The scanning unit receives the collimated beam from each lighting assembly and directs the collimated beam from each lighting assembly in two orthogonal directions.