Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Masaya Shido

Toru Ito

Yoshiro Ito

Yukihiro Onoda

Haruhiko Iyoda

Hironori Tsukamoto

Toshiaki Tsuda

Tomoaki Harada

Michio Takagaki

Kunio Fukai

Takeshi Fukuyo

Osamu Kuboyama

Takuya Serita

Masato Harazaki

Yukihiro Kobayakawa

Shinichi Irisawa

Yoshinori Shibata

Yoshitaka Ohshima

Asami Nakada

Masaru Sasaki

Ryujiro Ikuta

Yasutaka Sasaki

Takayuki Otsubo

Masayuki Umehara

Hiroyuki Takatsuka

Yoichiro Domae

Kunimasa Mochizuki

Nobuyuki Kasuya

Koji Magori

A vehicle lamp includes: a planar light emitting body including a transparent base body, a light emitting portion disposed inside the base body, and an extraction electrode formed on the base body and configured to supply a current to the light emitting portion; and a flexible printed wiring board including a transparent wiring base, a connection electrode formed on the wiring base and connected to the extraction electrode, and a conductive portion connected to the connection electrode. The extraction electrode and the connection electrode are constituted by a plurality of metal wires respectively arranged at a predetermined interval.

Vehicle lamp

A vehicular display device includes: a reflective display configured to provide display toward an outside of a vehicle; and a light emission member arranged to face a display part of the reflective display. The light emission member is configured to allow light to be incident from a display part side and light to be incident from an opposite side to the display part side to pass through the light emission member, and is configured to emit light toward the display part, which is different from the light to be incident from the display part side and the light to be incident from the opposite side to the display part side.

Vehicular display device

A vehicle display device mounted on a vehicle and configured to display an image to an outside of the vehicle includes: a self-luminous display unit configured to display an image to the outside of the vehicle by emitting light emitted from a light source to the outside of the vehicle; a reflective display unit configured to display an image to the outside of the vehicle by reflecting light from the outside of the vehicle; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire environment information indicating an environment outside the vehicle; and a controller configured to switch between image display by the self-luminous display unit and image display by the reflective display unit based on the acquired environment information.

Vehicle display device, method of controlling vehicle display device, and computer-readable non-transitory storage medium

A display device for a movable object includes: a display unit provided such that it is visible from outside a movable object; and a controller that causes the display unit to display information indicating a status of the movable object. The controller changes a display mode of the information displayed on the display unit in accordance with variation in the status of the movable object.

Display device for movable object

A vehicle lampincludes: an organic EL element; a lighting circuitconfigured to switch between lighting and lighting-off of the organic EL element; and a lighting control unitconfigured to control the lighting circuitso as to repeat instantaneous lighting-off in a state in which the organic EL elementis to be lighted. The lighting circuitincludes a discharge pathformed at least during the instantaneous lighting-off so as to discharge accumulated charges from the organic EL element

A vehicle lamp that ensures achieving downsizing while integrating sensors and improving a designability is provided. The vehicle lamp includes a lamp function unit () and a sensor function unit (). The lamp function unit () has a light irradiating region (). The sensor function unit () is arranged within the light irradiating region () in a front view.

The present disclosure relates to a light emitting device using an organic EL. The light emitting device includes an organic EL panel where a plurality of light emitting parts is arranged toward a predetermined direction. The plurality of light emitting parts is configured such that brightness is decreased gradually toward the predetermined direction.

Light emitting device having a plurality of light emitting parts with brightnesses decreased in a direction

A vehicle lamp includes a planar light-emitting structure having a substrate on which an organic EL emission element is provided, a framing member that fixes the planar light-emitting structure inside a vehicle-lamp light cabinet, and an elastic member that is interposed between the planar light-emitting structure and the framing member and that fixes the planar light-emitting structure by its biasing force.

Provided is a light emitting device disposed along a transparent member. The light emitting device includes: an organic electroluminescence panel having a translucent substrate disposed to face the transparent member, a translucent anode disposed on the substrate, an organic material layer disposed on the anode, and a non-translucent cathode disposed on the organic material layer. The organic material layer and the cathode are formed in a form of stripes. The cathode is formed wider than the organic material layer.

Light emitting device

A planar light emitting bodyconfigured to emit a first illumination light, and a semiconductor light emitting elementconfigured to emit light toward the planar light emitting bodyare disposed in a lamp chamberdefined by a lamp housinghaving an opening and a coverthat covers the opening. The planar light emitting bodyincludes a transmitting layer through which light is caused to pass, and a control layer configured to irradiate light as a second illumination light by controlling a travelling direction of the light that is emitted from the semiconductor light emitting elementand passes through the transmitting layer.

Provided is a light source device including: a planar light source provided with a light emitting curved surface; and an optical member that directs light from the light emitting curved surface toward a light emitting elongated region forming an angle with the light emitting curved surface.

Light source device with planar light source having redirecting optical member and vehicle lamp having the same

The present disclosure provides a vehicular lamp including an organic EL element that has only a non-light emitting point with a size of 120 &#x3bc;m or less on a light emitting surface.

Vehicular lamp, inspection method of organic EL element

Provided is a vehicular marker lamp including a planar light emitter; and a lens including an incident portion formed on a surface facing the planar light emitter. A plurality of cross-sectionally triangular prisms are arranged in the incident portion in a state where the vertexes of triangular prisms face the planar light emitter side. Each of the prisms includes an incident surface formed on one surface in the arrangement direction to make a light from the planar light emitter is incident and a light-shielding portion formed on a surface opposite to the incident surface to shield incidence of the light from the planar light emitter.

Vehicular marker lamp using planar light emitter

A light emitting device includes a planar light emitting body configured to emit light in a planar shape, and a transparent member configured to control the light from the planar light emitting body. The transparent member has a light incidence surface arranged so as to face a light emitting surface of the planar light emitting body and configured to cause the light from the planar light emitting body to be incident on the transparent member and a light emission surface configured to emit, to the outside, the light which is propagated in the transparent member. The transparent member is formed so as to extend in a predetermined direction and formed such that a distance between the light incidence surface and the light emission surface changes in accordance with a position in the predetermined direction.

Light emitting device and vehicle lamp

Provided is a vehicle lamp including: an organic EL element; and a lighting circuit that applies a voltage to the organic EL device with a rise time of the voltage of 5 milliseconds or less.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Masaya Shido