US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOBIS on March 25 for "Shield for improving dark parts and projection headlamp including the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,099, issued on March 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Shield for improving dark parts and projection headlamp including the same" was invented by Hong Seok Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projection headlamp is provided including a shield disposed between the reflector and aspherical lens of the lamp to control light emission area of the headlamp. The projection headlamp includes a dark part improvement element configured to optimize a shield design to add some light to the dark part or advance light blocked for providing the dark part to a far-field part. This dark part impr...