Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Maxell, Ltd.

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Nidec Mobility Corporation

Go Shimizu

Masayoshi Takori

Naoto Inoue

Ryuya Kawaji

Yuji Tsuchiya

Toshinori Sugiyama

Yasuhiko Kunii

Masahiro Kishigami

Shunsuke Iwao

Ryuichi Nakano

Hiroya Ohkubo

Shunichi Nakano

Ryoya Kobayashi

Koji Hirata

Kenichi Suzuki

Takayuki Suzuki

Keisuke Maeda

Takashi Haga

Yoshinori Miyake

Toshiki Kikuchi

Fumiyoshi Mizutani

Keisuke Kunori

Takashi Mai

Ikuo Koyama

Joohyuk Bae

Kotaro Ono

Satoshi Chikazawa

Taku Kuraishi

The disclosure provides a mounting structure of an object detection device to a vehicle body capable of improving the accuracy of object detection by the object detection device and improving the durability of the object detection device. A mounting structure of a radar device, which is an object detection device for detecting objects, to a vehicle body, includes a cover member attached to the vehicle body side and covering at least a part of the radar device. The cover member is disposed on a first direction side, which is an object detection direction by the radar device when viewed from the radar device. The cover member includes a rib extending from the cover member in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The radar device is fixed to the rib.

Mounting structure of object detection device to vehicle body

A vehicle comprising a state detection device the detects a behavior and peripheral environmental information of the vehicle, an optical device that displays at least a plurality of condensing marks which are a pattern indicating at least a travelling direction of the vehicle on a road surface, and a lamp controller that controls lighting or blinking of the optical device. The lamp controller acquires a detection signal, lights or blinks the optical device based on the detection signal, and combines a plurality of linear partial irradiation images into the plurality of condensing marks. The optical device arranges and displays the plurality of condensing marks side by side on a road where the vehicle enters in the traveling direction, and displays the plurality of condensing marks in at least two different colors that appear to overlap each other to a viewer when the viewer is a first distance from the vehicle.

Optical device and direction display device

The disclosure provides a mounting structure of an object detection device to a vehicle body capable of improving the accuracy of object detection by the object detection device and improving the durability of the object detection device. A mounting structure of a radar device, which is an object detection device for detecting objects, to a vehicle body includes: a support bracket attached to the vehicle body side for supporting the radar device in a first direction, which is an object detection direction by the radar device; and a cover member fixed to the first direction side of the support bracket and disposed on the first direction side of the radar device. The radar device is housed in a housing chamber defined by the cover member and the support bracket.

The purpose is to facilitate the adjustment of the size of a light emitting region of a lens structure. A lens structure for a vehicle light body includes a light emitting part and a base. The light emitting part includes an introduction reflective surface which causes light from the base to completely reflect as parallel light to the Z− direction, and a back-side reflective surface arranged to the Z direction in the light emitting back surface. Each back-side reflective surface has a normal direction sloping relative to the Z direction, and causes the parallel light from the introduction reflective surface to completely reflect to the Y+ direction. The light emitting surface emits light from the back-side reflective surface.

Vehicle light body

To allow light from one or one group of light sources to be used for a plurality of applications. A lens structure for a vehicle lamp includes a light transmitter and a reflective surface. The light transmitter is configured to transmit light in a predetermined horizontal direction. The reflective surface is provided at an upper portion of an end portion of the light transmitter in the predetermined horizontal direction. A direction perpendicular to the reflective surface is inclined toward a direction opposite to the predetermined horizontal direction from a direction directly downward. The reflective surface totally reflects the light travelling in the predetermined horizontal direction downward. The light transmitted from below the reflective surface in the light transmitter in the predetermined horizontal direction radiates in the predetermined horizontal direction, and the light reflected by the reflective surface illuminates a road surface.

Lens structure for vehicle lamp

An opening-closing member including an outer panel that faces an outside of a vehicle body, and opening and closing a rear opening of the vehicle body in response to operation of an operation part arranged at a rear end part, the opening-closing member including a bracket member in the operation part, the bracket member including a bracket member body extending along a vehicle body front-rear direction, and a vertical wall extending in a vehicle body vertical direction from at least one end part of the bracket member body in the vehicle body front-rear direction, the vertical wall being fixed to an inner side of the outer panel.

Opening-closing member

The object is to improve degree of freedom in design for the cross-sectional shape of a region of light guided by the lens structure. A lens structure for a vehicle light body guides at least part of the light in the Z+ direction to both sides of the X direction, and then guides in the Y+ direction. The first reflective surface includes a first reflective surface sub part projecting from the first reflective surface main part to the X+ direction. The second reflective surface includes a second reflective surface sub part projecting from the second reflective surface main part to the X− direction. The first reflective surface sub part and the second reflective surface sub part are arranged in the Y direction in a plan view seen in the Z direction, and intersect in a plan view seen in the Y direction.

Lens structure for vehicle light body

A headlamp is configured to emit a low beam toward a forward direction of a vehicle. The headlamp is switchable between a first low beam distribution state and a second low beam distribution state. The headlamp is configured to, in the first low beam distribution state, illuminate a low area straight ahead of the vehicle, and in the second low beam distribution state, illuminate at least one of: a width-direction intermediate portion of the low area, one width-direction end portion of the low area, and the other width-direction end portion of the low area, even brighter than the first low beam distribution state.

Headlamp and headlamp control system

An optical device for displaying a condensing mark includes a light source, and an optical element for condensing light emitted from the light source onto an irradiated surface. A lamp controller acquires a detection signal from a state detection device mounted on the vehicle and configured to detect a behavior of and peripheral environmental information of the vehicle, and light or blink the optical device. The optical device displays a plurality of condensing marks by arranging each of them side by side in at least the travelling direction of the vehicle on a lane orthogonal to a lane on which the vehicle exists, and one of the plurality of condensing marks to be displayed on a display region farthest from the vehicle is different in color from another one of the plurality of condensing marks to be displayed on a display region closest to the vehicle.

A photodetector including: a case including a light receiving surface provided on an upper surface and having a first region that transmits visible light and a second region that transmits less visible light than the first region; a printed circuit board provided to face the light receiving surface; and a plurality of electronic components provided on a light receiving surface side of the printed circuit board and including a first light receiving element configured to detect visible light. The first light receiving element is disposed at a first position of the printed circuit board exposed to the visible light transmitted through the first region. The number of mounted electronic components disposed at the first position is smaller than the number of mounted electronic components disposed at a second position of the printed circuit board other than the first position.

Photodetector with improved appearance design and vehicle including photodetector of the same comprising a plurality of electronic components mounted on a light receiving surface side of a printed circuit board

A vehicular lighting tool of the present invention includes light source and light guide lens, the light guide lens has introduction section into which light is introduced, light distribution section that emits introduced light as illumination light, decoration section that emits introduced light as decoration light, and slit section that separates introduction section and decoration section, and introduction section has light incidence surface into which light from light source enters, lens cut that emits portion of light from light source and that causes portion of light to enter decoration section via slit section, first inclined surface located closer to light distribution section than lens cut, second inclined surface that connects first inclined surface and decoration section, and reflection cut surface provided on surface opposite to slit section and that reflects portion of light entering from light incidence surface so as to advance along second inclined surface.

Vehicular lighting tool

A headlamp control system includes: a headlamp that emits light toward a forward direction of a vehicle; a tilt detection part; and a control part. The headlamp includes: high beam emitting parts that respectively illuminate plural high beam areas arrayed in a left-right direction; and a low beam emitting part that illuminates a low beam area located at a lower position than the plural high beam areas. The control part, in a state where the low beam emitting part is on, when the tilt detection part detects that the vehicle has tilted such that one of left and right sides of the vehicle is lowered than the other one of the left and right sides, controls the high beam emitting parts so as to illuminate at least one of the plural high beam areas, the at least one being on the one of the left and right sides.

Headlamp control system

A rear lamp unit control system for a vehicle including: a first lamp provided on a vehicle body side of a vehicle rear face; a second lamp provided on an opening-closing body side of the vehicle rear face; and a controller configured to control the first lamp and the second lamp. When an opening-closing body of the vehicle is in a closed state, the controller is configured to control the first lamp and the second lamp so that the first lamp and the second lamp turn on at different luminous intensities to each other. In response to the second lamp being in need to be turned on when the opening-closing body is in an open state, the controller is configured to turn the first lamp on at a luminous intensity that is equivalent to a luminous intensity of the second lamp when the second lamp is turned on.

Rear lamp unit control system

A vehicle body side structure includes: a cornering light as a light source configured to illuminate an area in a turning direction when a vehicle turns; a light path forming a path, through which light from the cornering light passes toward the area in the turning direction; and a reflector provided in the light path and reflecting at least a part of the light to illuminate an area in the vicinity of a door opening on a lateral side of a vehicle body.

Vehicle body side structure

An optical device for displaying a condensing mark includes a light source, and an optical element for condensing light emitted from the light source onto an irradiated surface. The deflection surface of the optical element is divided into a plurality of regions. The light emitted through the respective regions on the deflection surface of the optical element forms partial irradiation images corresponding to the respective regions on the deflection surface of the irradiated surface. The respective partial irradiation images are combined into at least one condensing mark on the irradiated surface.

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