Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Hikaru Nagai

Akinobu Kubota

Masayuki Kondo

Kazuki Kawamura

Yasuhiro Ichikawa

Takashi Terayama

Takao Muramatsu

Kazuhiro Suzuki

Shigeyuki Watanabe

Yuichi Watano

Masaru Sakai

Mitsuharu Mano

Toshihisa Hayami

Yusuke Funami

Hirohiko Oshio

Yoshio Ito

Kana Serizawa

A high-definition lamp unit contains a plurality of individually controllable pixels, and emits lamp beam having light distribution corresponding to states of the pixels. A first sensor is provided to enable detection of a dynamic component of a pitch angle of a traveling vehicle body. A controller shifts the level of a cut-off line CL of the light distribution up and down, corresponding to the dynamic component of the pitch angle of the vehicle body, with reference to a predetermined level defined as a base.

Lamp system

A light distribution control device, if a first upper limit number N≥the number of near-distance targets T, controls a lamp to irradiate the near-distance targets with light having illuminance according to attributes of the near-distance targets; if a remaining number M≥the number of long-distance targets T, controls the lamp to irradiate the long-distance targets with light having illuminance according to attributes of the long-distance targets; if N<T, controls the lamp to form a light distribution pattern that does not depend on the near-distance targets and the long-distance targets; and, if M<T, controls the lamp to form a light distribution pattern that does not depend on the long-distance targets.

Light distribution control device, vehicle light system, and light distribution control method

A vehicle cleaner system includes a cleaner unit discharges a cleaning fluid toward a cleaning target mounted on a vehicle; a motor pump supplies the cleaning fluid to the cleaner unit; a normally closed type solenoid valve provided between the cleaner unit and the motor pump and switches between permission and non-permission of movement of the cleaning fluid from the motor pump to the cleaner unit; and a cleaner control unit controls the motor pump and the solenoid valve. The cleaner control unit sets an operation stop time period for stopping an operation of at least one of the motor pump and the solenoid valve, and after the cleaning fluid is discharged to the cleaning target, stops the operation of at least one of the motor pump and the solenoid valve during the operation stop time period based on a predetermined condition.

Vehicle cleaner system

A vehicular cleaner system () for cleaning a to-be-cleaned object (), wherein: the vehicular cleaner system () is provided with a tank () that accommodates a cleaning liquid, a pump () that pressure-feeds the cleaning liquid inside the tank (), a high-pressure-air generation unit () that generates high-pressure air, a first ejection port that sprays the cleaning liquid toward a cleaning surface of the to-be-cleaned object (), a second ejection port that sprays the high-pressure air toward the cleaning surface, and a controller () and vehicle ECU () that control the spraying of the cleaning liquid and the spraying of the high-pressure air; and the controller () and the vehicle ECU () perform control so as to initiate the spraying of the high-pressure air from the second ejection port after spraying of the cleaning liquid from the first ejection port has been initiated.

Vehicular cleaner system, vehicle having vehicular cleaner system, vehicular cleaner and vehicle having vehicular cleaner

An integrated lamp-and-camera module () includes: a pair of license plate lamps (R,L) that are disposed in a left-right direction of a license plate (LP) of a vehicle (VE), and apply light to the license plate (LP); a first camera () and a second camera () that are disposed between the pair of license plate lamps (R,L) to capture an image of a rear side of the vehicle (VE); and a housing () to which the respective license plate lamps (R,L), the first rear view camera (), and the second camera () are attached. The housing () is attached to a vehicle body.

Integrated lamp-and-camera module

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Shizuoka, Japan

Hikaru Nagai