An integrated automotive headlight ball head dimming structure

Abstract

This utility model relates to the field of automotive lamp structure technology, specifically disclosing an integrated automotive lamp ball head dimming structure, including a bracket body detachably connected to a lens, ball posts respectively disposed on both sides of the bracket body, a motor bracket and a manual adjustment bracket respectively engaged with the ball posts. The ball post includes a columnar part connected to the bracket body and a spherical part disposed at the end of the columnar part with a diameter larger than the columnar part. Both the motor bracket and the manual adjustment bracket are provided with connection holes adapted to the spherical part, and both the motor bracket and the manual adjustment bracket are also provided with slots. This solves the problem that traditional automotive lamp dimming systems use ball head screws, brackets, etc. as dimming structures, which easily lead to wear between the metal ball head screws and the plastic ball head nuts, resulting in unstable dimming angles and thus changing or even affecting the lighting range.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] This application relates to the field of automotive lighting structure technology, and specifically discloses an integrated automotive lighting ball head dimming structure. Background Technology

[0002] Among automotive headlights, the front combination lamp is the most complex, and the headlight dimming system is an important functional component of the front combination lamp. In order to ensure that the front combination lamp has sufficient illuminance and a wide enough illumination range after installation, it also needs to achieve a non-glare effect. At the same time, it needs to adjust for the light deviation caused by different road conditions. This requires a headlight dimming system to maintain the illumination pattern of the front combination lamp.

[0003] Current automotive headlight dimming systems mostly use ball-end screws and brackets as dimming structures to connect the dimming screw and the dimming bracket. This involves numerous connected components, increasing cost and amplifying assembly tolerances, reducing stability. Furthermore, after repeated dimming, the metal ball-end screws and plastic ball-end nuts experience wear and tear, leading to loosening due to vibration and unstable dimming angles, potentially altering or even affecting the lighting range. Additionally, the installation of ball-end screws, brackets, and dimming screws involves X-axis assembly, requiring significant X-axis space, making them unsuitable for vehicles with high X-axis space requirements. Moreover, in current dimming brackets, to ensure overall lens stability, the main body typically surrounds the lens to prevent center of gravity shift and uneven dimming force, further increasing the installation space within the headlight. This is impractical in headlights aiming for miniaturization and precision. Therefore, this invention provides an integrated automotive headlight ball-end dimming structure to address these issues. Utility Model Content

[0004] The purpose of this invention is to solve the problem that traditional vehicle headlight dimming systems use ball head screws, brackets, etc. as dimming structures, which easily lead to wear between the metal ball head screws and the plastic ball head nuts, resulting in unstable dimming angles and thus changing or even affecting the lighting range.

[0005] To achieve the above objectives, the basic solution of this utility model provides an integrated automotive headlight ball head dimming structure, including a bracket body detachably connected to a lens, ball columns respectively disposed on both sides of the bracket body, a motor bracket and a manual adjustment bracket respectively engaged with the ball columns. The ball column includes a columnar part connected to the bracket body and a spherical part disposed at the end of the columnar part with a diameter larger than the columnar part. The motor bracket and the manual adjustment bracket are each provided with a connection hole adapted to the spherical part, and the motor bracket and the manual adjustment bracket are also respectively provided with a slot.

[0006] The principle and effect of this basic scheme are as follows:

[0007] Compared with existing technologies, this utility model utilizes the connection holes on the motor bracket and the manual adjustment bracket to cooperate with the ball joint, replacing the traditional ball head screw and bolt BOSS column. This not only reduces material usage, production costs and processes, but also simplifies assembly, effectively reducing the internal space of the entire lamp and minimizing the impact on the overall vehicle design. It effectively solves the problem that traditional vehicle lamp dimming systems using ball head screws, brackets, etc. as dimming structures are prone to wear between the metal ball head screw and the plastic ball head nut, resulting in unstable dimming angles and thus changing or even affecting the lighting range.

[0008] Furthermore, the spherical columns are distributed along the Y-axis or Z-axis of the lens. This reduces the installation space in the X-axis of the headlight, making it suitable for vehicle models where other headlight components have reduced X-axis space requirements.

[0009] Furthermore, the spherical column is provided with several staggered material-reducing grooves to further reduce material and overall weight.

[0010] Furthermore, both the motor bracket and the manual adjustment bracket have several guide blocks on their sidewalls away from the main bracket body. These blocks serve to limit the movement of the motor bracket and the manual adjustment bracket.

[0011] Furthermore, the surface of the guide block away from the main body of the bracket is all arc-shaped to reduce wear on the motor bracket and the manual adjustment bracket.

[0012] Furthermore, the main body of the bracket has a notch. The main body includes a surrounding plate located around the lens, an inner plate and an outer plate respectively located on the inner and outer walls of the surrounding plate, and several reinforcing ribs staggered between the inner and outer plates. The notch saves materials and reduces the assembly space in the notch area, allowing for greater flexibility in the overall lamp design. The configuration of the inner plate, outer plate, and reinforcing ribs avoids issues such as center of gravity shift and uneven dimming force, thus meeting the mechanical performance requirements of the main body of the bracket.

[0013] Furthermore, the enclosure plate is provided with several first connection holes for connecting to the lens, and the intersections of the reinforcing ribs are provided with second connection holes for connecting the lens. This facilitates the cooperation between the support body and the lens, thereby improving the assembly performance between the support body and the lens. Attached Figure Description

[0014] To more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of this application, the accompanying drawings used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the accompanying drawings described below are only some embodiments of this application. For those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without creative effort.

[0015] Figure 1This illustration shows a schematic diagram of an integrated automotive headlight ball dimming structure according to an embodiment of this application;

[0016] Figure 2 The diagram shows a schematic of the main support body in an integrated automotive headlight ball dimming structure proposed in an embodiment of this application. Detailed Implementation

[0017] To further illustrate the technical means and effects adopted by this utility model in order to achieve the intended utility model purpose, the following detailed description of the specific implementation methods, structure, features and effects of this utility model is provided in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments.

[0018] The reference numerals in the accompanying drawings include: lens 1, bracket body 2, surrounding plate 201, outer plate 202, inner plate 203, reinforcing rib 204, first connecting hole 205, second connecting hole 206, ball column 3, columnar part 301, spherical part 302, manual adjustment bracket 4, motor bracket 5, slot 6, guide block 7, and material reduction groove 8.

[0019] An integrated automotive headlight ball head dimming structure, implementing, for example... Figure 1 As shown: It includes a support body 2 detachably connected to lens 1, ball columns 3 respectively disposed on both sides of the support body 2, a motor support 5 and a manual adjustment support 4 respectively engaged with the ball columns 3. The ball column 3 includes a columnar part 301 connected to the support body 2 and a ball-shaped part 302 disposed at the end of the columnar part 301 with a diameter larger than the columnar part 301. The motor support 5 and the manual adjustment support 4 are both provided with connection holes adapted to the ball-shaped part 302. The motor support 5 and the manual adjustment support 4 are also provided with slots 6 respectively, so that the motor support 5 and the manual adjustment support 4 can be connected to the motor and the handle respectively, and then the motor and the handle can be used to drive the motor support 5 and the manual adjustment support 4 to move, thereby driving the support body 2 to adjust the angle of lens 1.

[0020] Both the motor bracket 5 and the manual adjustment bracket 4 have several guide blocks 7 on the side wall away from the bracket body 2, and the surface of the guide blocks 7 away from the bracket body 2 is an arc surface. While limiting the movement of the motor bracket 5 and the manual adjustment bracket 4, they can also reduce the wear of the motor bracket 5 and the manual adjustment bracket 4.

[0021] In order to accommodate vehicle models where the space requirements for other components of the headlights in the X-axis are reduced, the ball column 3 in this embodiment is distributed along the Y-axis or Z-axis of the lens 1, and several material-reducing grooves 8 are staggered on the ball column 3 to further reduce material and overall weight.

[0022] like Figure 2As shown, a notch is provided on the main body 2 of the bracket to save materials, and the assembly space of the notch area can be reduced, making the overall lamp design more feasible. After the notch is provided, in order to avoid problems such as center of gravity shift and uneven dimming force, the main body 2 of the bracket adopts a structure including a surrounding plate 201 provided at the periphery of the lens 1, an inner connecting plate 203 and an outer connecting plate 202 respectively provided on the inner and outer walls of the surrounding plate 201, and a number of reinforcing ribs 204 staggered between the inner connecting plate 203 and the outer connecting plate 202, so as to meet the mechanical performance requirements of the main body 2 of the bracket. It is connected to the lens 1 or other parts of the vehicle lamp through a number of first connecting holes 205 provided on the surrounding plate 201 and a number of second connecting holes 206 provided at the intersection of the reinforcing ribs 204. The first connecting holes 205 and the second connecting holes 206 are all bolted to the lens 1 or other parts of the vehicle lamp.

[0023] Compared with the prior art, this embodiment utilizes the connecting holes on the motor bracket 5 and the manual adjustment bracket 4 to cooperate with the ball joint 3, replacing the traditional ball head screw and bolt BOSS column. This not only reduces material usage, production costs and processes, but also reduces assembly complexity, effectively reducing the internal space of the entire lamp and minimizing the impact on the overall vehicle shape. It effectively solves the problem that traditional vehicle lamp dimming systems using ball head screws, brackets, etc. as dimming structures are prone to wear between the metal ball head screw and the plastic ball head nut, resulting in unstable dimming angles and thus changing or even affecting the lighting range.

[0024] The above description is merely a preferred embodiment of the present utility model and is not intended to limit the present utility model in any way. Although the present utility model has been disclosed above with reference to a preferred embodiment, it is not intended to limit the present utility model. Any person skilled in the art can make some modifications or alterations to the above-disclosed technical content to create equivalent embodiments without departing from the scope of the present utility model. Any indirect modifications, equivalent changes, and alterations made to the above embodiments based on the technical essence of the present utility model without departing from the scope of the present utility model shall still fall within the scope of the present utility model.

Claims

1. An integrated automotive headlight ball head dimming structure, characterized in that: The device includes a support body detachably connected to a lens, ball columns respectively located on both sides of the support body, a motor bracket and a manual adjustment bracket respectively engaged with the ball columns. Each ball column includes a columnar portion connected to the support body and a spherical portion located at the end of the columnar portion with a diameter larger than the columnar portion. Both the motor bracket and the manual adjustment bracket are provided with connection holes adapted to the spherical portions, and both the motor bracket and the manual adjustment bracket are also provided with slots.

2. The one-piece automobile lamp bulb head dimming structure of claim 1, wherein, The spherical columns are distributed along the Y-axis or Z-axis of the lens.

3. The one-piece automobile lamp bulb head dimming structure of claim 1, wherein, The ball column is provided with several material reduction grooves arranged alternately.

4. The one-piece automobile lamp bulb head dimming structure of claim 1, wherein, Both the motor bracket and the manual adjustment bracket have several guide blocks on the side wall away from the main body of the bracket.

5. The one-piece automobile lamp bulb head dimming structure of claim 4, wherein, The surface of the guide block away from the main body of the support is an arc-shaped surface.

6. The one-piece automobile lamp bulb dimming structure according to any one of claims 1-4, characterized in that, The main body of the bracket has a notch. The main body of the bracket includes a surrounding plate located at the periphery of the lens, an inner connecting plate and an outer connecting plate respectively located on the inner and outer walls of the surrounding plate, and a number of reinforcing ribs staggered between the inner and outer connecting plates.

7. The one-piece automobile lamp bulb head dimming structure of claim 6, wherein, The enclosure is provided with several first connection holes for connecting to the lens, and the intersections of the reinforcing ribs are provided with second connection holes for connecting the lens.

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