Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.

Valeo Vision

Fumihiko Mouri

Susumu Yamamoto

Yoshiyuki Nakanishi

Satoshi Yamamura

Kentaro Mori

Yusuke Nakada

Takahiko Honda

Takuya Kitazono

Norikatsu Myojin

Kento Nakazato

Takeshi Masuda

Takayuki Yagi

Yasushi Yatsuda

Ayaka Kagami

Yasufumi Suzuki

Misako Nakazawa

Daisuke Takamura

Harumi Mochimaru

Takanori Hamamoto

Stéphane André

Yudai Minami

A vehicle lighting device disclosed in this specification comprises an illumination unit that draws an image on a road surface around a vehicle by illuminating the road surface with light; a turn signal unit that causes a turn signal lamp to flash; and a controller configured to control the illumination unit, wherein when the vehicle changes a lane from a first lane to a second lane adjacent to the first lane, the controller causes the turn signal lamp to flash on a lane change side, and causes the illumination unit to draw a lane change image for notifying surroundings of a behavior of the vehicle, and the controller changes a configuration of the lane change image according to at least one of a presence and a position of a subsequent vehicle traveling rearward of the vehicle and along the second lane.

Vehicle lighting device for lane change indication and vehicle lighting device with image projection on road surface

A vehicle has a function of drawing a notification display on a road surface with light. In a case where a shift position of the vehicle is a P range and a switch for turning off the drawing is selected, it is permitted to turn off the light of the drawing of the notification display. As another condition, in a case where there is no approaching object around the vehicle when the vehicle moves rearward and the switch for turning off the drawing is selected, it is permitted to turn off the light of the drawing of the notification display.

Display apparatus for vehicle

A vehicle display device includes a visible light source that repeatedly turns on and off and emits visible light, an invisible light source that emits invisible light, and a projection unit that projects visible light emitted from the visible light source and invisible light emitted from the invisible light source onto a road surface as a drawing pattern.

Vehicle display device

A vehicular drawing device is installed in the vehicle and draws, using light, an indication display with a predetermined shape on a road surface in a direction of travel of the vehicle. The indication display includes a start-traveling display drawn at a time of starting traveling and a turn indication display drawn when a turn indicator switch is turned on and the direction of travel is changed. The turn indication display is drawn with priority over the start-traveling display when the turn indicator switch is on at the time of starting traveling.

Vehicular drawing device

An indicator apparatus for a vehicle is provided which draws an indication of a predetermined shape on a road surface on a side of a course of travel by illuminating light onto the road surface when a user performs a travel course changing operation which is an operation for changing a course of travel of a vehicle, in which a drawing operation on the road surface is prohibited when a hazard switch is set in an ON state.

Indicator apparatus for vehicle

An image display system includes a projector that is mounted on a target vehicle and projects an image onto a road surface around the target vehicle, and an image controller that causes the projector to project a support image onto the road surface around the target vehicle when another vehicle traveling behind the target vehicle starts an operation of overtaking the target vehicle, and the support image includes at least one of an image showing a no-entry area which the other vehicle is prohibited from entering and an image showing a passage area through which the other vehicle is to pass during the overtaking operation.

Image display system

A vehicular drawing device is mounted in a vehicle and draws an indication mark of a predetermined shape on a road surface in a traveling direction of the vehicle using light. Drawing of the indication mark on the road surface is performed when a direction indicator is operating or when steering of the vehicle is being performed. Drawing of the indication mark is stopped or a direction in which the indication mark is drawn is changed when predetermined conditions are satisfied.

A vehicle indication device includes: a road surface drawing unit mounted on a vehicle and configured to draw one or more notification indications by light on a road surface in a direction of travel of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to, when a turn signal of the vehicle is on, cause the road surface drawing unit to either draw the one or more notification indications in a first color on the road surface or turn off display of the one or more notification indications in a case where the vehicle gives way to a pedestrian, and cause the road surface drawing unit to draw the one or more notification indications in a second color different from the first color on the road surface in a case different from the case where the vehicle gives way to a pedestrian.

Vehicle indication device

A vehicle front headlight device includes: a fixed illumination section configured to shine light toward a first illuminated region at a lower side ahead of a vehicle; a variable illumination section that selectively adopts either an illumination angle from which light is shone toward a second illuminated region further ahead of the vehicle than and at an upper side of the first illuminated region, or a depiction angle from which a depicted pattern is shone toward a depiction region nearer to the vehicle than the first illuminated region; a support member to which the fixed illumination section being attached; a retention section that retains the variable illumination section and is supported by the support member so that it can pivot about an axial direction running along a vehicle width direction; and a drive section that causes the retention section to selectively adopt either the illumination angle or the depiction angle.

Vehicle front headlight device

A vehicle headlight device includes: a first illuminating unit for reflecting, at a first mirror that rotatingly operates, laser light that has exited from a laser light source and making the laser light into scanning light, and a illuminating the scanning light toward a first illumination region that is in front of a vehicle; second illuminating unit for reflecting, at a second mirror that is an aggregate of plural micro mirrors whose angles can be changed, visible light that has exited from a visible light source and making the visible light into information displaying light, and illuminating the information displaying light toward a second illumination region that is in front of the vehicle; and controlling unit for controlling turning-off and turning-on of the laser light source, rotating operation of the first mirror, and changing of the angles of the micro mirrors at the second mirror.

Vehicle headlight device

A lighting device for a vehicle includes a light source that illuminates light, a reflecting surface, a shading member, and a projecting lens. The reflecting surface reflects the light illuminated from the light source and causes the light to converge. The shading member includes an aperture portion at which the light reflected and caused to converge by the reflecting surface is incident. Light that has passed through the aperture portion of the shading member is incident on the projecting lens, and the projecting lens emits the light toward a target.

Lighting device for vehicle

A vehicle front headlight device includes a light source, a rotating mirror configured by a plurality of mirror bodies, that are rotationally driven about a shaft, and, while rotating, reflecting light emitted by the light source, a lens transmitting light that is reflected by the rotating mirror, a recognition unit configured to recognize a leading vehicle traveling ahead, and a controller controlling a timing at which the light source is switched off and a timing at which the light source is switched on, such that light is not illuminated onto the leading vehicle recognized by the recognition unit and such that an illumination intensity of light illuminated in a vicinity of both ends in a vehicle width direction of the leading vehicle is lower than an illumination intensity of light illuminated at an outer side of the vicinity of the both ends in the vehicle width direction of the leading vehicle.

A vehicle lamp includes: a first laser light source configured to shine a blue first laser beam; second laser light source configured to shine a second laser beam of a color other than blue; a fixed mirror that reflects at least one of the first laser beam or the second laser beam; a moveable mirror that reflects the first laser beam and the second laser beam; a conversion member that is configured to convert the first laser beam into white light as the first laser beam passes through the conversion member; and a controller that is configured so that the movable mirror causes only the first laser beam shone from the first laser light source to pass through the conversion member so as to be shone in the vehicle forward direction toward a high beam area.

Vehicle lamp

A vehicle front headlight device including: a first and a second front headlights configuring a left and right pair, each including a light source configured to emit light, a rotating mirror configured to reflect the emitted light while rotating, and a lens configured to allow the reflected light to pass through and shine ahead of a vehicle; and a controller that controls switching ON and OFF of the respective light sources and rotational drive of the respective rotating mirrors of the first and the second front headlights, such that, in a light distribution region formed by illumination of the first and the second front headlights, a first non-illuminated region that is not illuminated by the first front headlight is illuminated by the second front headlight, and a second non-illuminated region that is not illuminated by the second front headlight is illuminated by the first front headlight.

An illumination device for a vehicle includes: plural light sources that are disposed so as to be lined-up in at least one line, and that illuminate light; a light-blocking member having an opening portion onto which light illuminated from the light sources is incident; and a projecting lens that emits, toward an object, light that has passed through the opening portion of the light-blocking member and has been incident on the projecting lens.

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Fumihiko Mouri