Patent ID: 9234648
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: F21V,G02B,G06K,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An illumination apparatus for the generation of an illumination field for an optoelectronic sensor which has at least one light source and an illumination optics in order to guide the light of the light source into the illumination field in a directed manner, wherein the illumination optics has a light entrance region, a light guidance region having a jacket surface and a light exit region, such that the light of the light source is guided from the light entrance region to the light exit region in the illumination optics by means of total reflection at the jacket surface, wherein the illumination optics has an adaptable optical beam forming element at the light exit region in order to set the light distribution of the irradiated light, wherein the beam forming element has at least one elastic micro-lens field having elastically deformable micro-lenses and a pressure element in order to compress the micro-lenses or to remove a load from the micro-lenses.