Patent ID: 7988346

Claim:
A headlamp system for a vehicle, comprising: a housing ( 22 ) including a base component ( 22 b ) having a plurality of protruding cooling fins ( 22 f ), and a top component ( 22 a ), the top component affixed to and covering the base component ( 22 b ); a planar array ( 28 ) of LED-lens units ( 40 41 42 44 ) sandwiched between the base component ( 22 b ) and the top component ( 22 a ), the LED-lens units ( 40 41 42 44 ) disposed in a desired arrangement, at least one of the LED-lens units ( 40 ) providing high beam white light, at least one of the LED-lens units ( 42 ) providing high beam infrared light, at least one of the LED-lens units ( 41 ) providing low beam white light, and at least one of the remaining LED-lens units ( 44 ) providing low beam infrared light; and one or more switches electrically configured and connected for controlling operation of the LED-lens units ( 40 41 42 44 ); wherein the cooling fins ( 22 f ) protruding from the housing ( 22 ) are connected by a thermally conducting path to the LED-lens units ( 40 41 42 44 ) and the cooling fins and conducting path are such as to provide sufficient heat removal from the LED-lens units by only conduction and radiation.