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Patent No.:

US 11047540 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2016

Solid state steerable light

Applicant:

J.w. Speaker Corporation, Germantown, WI (US);

Inventors:

Bradley William Kay, Mequon, WI (US);

Kevin Jay McWithey, Fond du Lac, WI (US);

Assignee:

J.W. SPEAKER CORPORATION, Germantown, WI (US);

Attorney:

Quarles & Brady LLP

Primary Examiner:

Alexander H Taningco

Assistant Examiner:

Amy X Yang

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 45/10 (2020.01); B60Q 1/12 (2006.01); F21S 41/143 (2018.01); F21S 41/663 (2018.01); H05B 45/37 (2020.01); F21S 41/151 (2018.01); B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); F21S 41/20 (2018.01); F21Y 103/10 (2016.01); F21W 102/19 (2018.01); F21S 41/255 (2018.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F21S 41/143 (2018.01); B60Q 1/12 (2013.01); B60Q 1/143 (2013.01); B60Q 1/1423 (2013.01); F21S 41/151 (2018.01); F21S 41/285 (2018.01); F21S 41/663 (2018.01); H05B 45/10 (2020.01); H05B 45/37 (2020.01); B60Q 2300/056 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/12 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/42 (2013.01); F21S 41/255 (2018.01); F21W 2102/19 (2018.01); F21Y 2103/10 (2016.08); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08);
Abstract

A light assembly and method for steering a vehicle headlight illumination pattern. In one aspect, a method includes providing a processor programmed to perform the steps of: illuminating a subset of consecutive LEDs in the line including LEDs associated with the first and second edge illumination fields; as the direction of the vehicle wheels changes: (i) fading the LED associated with one of the first and second illumination fields off while simultaneously fading the LED associated with the other of the first and second illumination fields on thereby changing the illumination pattern; and (ii) repeating step (i) so that the illumination pattern tracks the direction of the vehicle wheels.

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