US Patent Issued to Hella on Sept. 30 for "Headlamp for a motor vehicle and appearance light module for such a headlamp" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,185, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Headlamp for a motor vehicle and appearance light module for such a headlamp" was invented by Fabian Schuler (Lippstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appearance light module for motor vehicle headlamp comprises at least one light source and one secondary optical element. The secondary optical element has an intake geometry with an entry surface for the light generated by the at least one light source, and an emission geometry with an exit surface for the light passing through the entry surface of the intake geometry. The exit surface o...