Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Takashi Hori

Teruaki Yamamoto

Yusuke Kasaba

Yoshiaki Fushimi

Masatoshi Yoneyama

Takashi Inoue

Seiichiro Yagi

Hitoshi Takeda

Naoki Tatara

Shigeyuki Watanabe

Naohisa Tatara

Kiyotaka Fukawa

Katsuhito Mochizuki

Akinori Matsumoto

Naoki Takii

Motohiro Komatsu

Kiyotaka Mochizuki

Takashi Matsunaga

Yasuyuki Kato

Hirohiko Ohshio

Masahiro Kusagaya

Takanori Suzuki

Yasuo Teranishi

Norimasa Yamamoto

Masaaki Ishikawa

Yoshio Suehiro

Akiyoshi Ozaki

Akitaka Kanamori

Yuji Fujino

Keiichi Inaba

Nobutaka Tezuka

Toshikazu Tomono

Yutaka Nakanishi

Minami Katagiri

Fusao Fukazawa

Akiyosi Ozaki

Hirokazu Endo

Toshinao Daicho

A vehicle lamp provided in a vehicle that travels at a corner by tilting a vehicle body includes: a light source unit; a sensor configured to detect information on outside of the vehicle; and a housing that houses the light source unit and the sensor. The vehicle lamp is disposed at a central portion of the vehicle body in a left-right direction, and wherein the sensor is disposed in the housing at a central portion in the left-right direction.

Vehicle lamp

A left front camera () is adapted to be mounted on a left front lamp (LF) of a vehicle to obtain external information of at least ahead of the vehicle. A right front LiDAR sensor (), a type of which is different from the camera (), is adapted to be mounted on a right front lamp (RF) of the vehicle to obtain external information of at least ahead of the vehicle.

Sensor system

A LiDAR sensor () is configured to sense information of an outside of a vehicle. An ultrasonic sensor () is configured to sense information of the outside of the vehicle in a different manner from the LiDAR sensor (). A first bracket () supports the LiDAR sensor () and the ultrasonic sensor (). A first sensor actuator () is configured to adjust a sensing reference position of the LiDAR sensor () relative to the first bracket (). A second sensor actuator () is configured to adjust a sensing reference position of the ultrasonic sensor () relative to first bracket (). A first bracket actuator () is configured to adjust at least one of a position and a posture of the first bracket () relative to the vehicle.

Sensor system, sensor module, and lamp device

A translucent cover () defines a lamp chamber () together with a housing () while forming a portion of an outer face of a vehicle. A LiDAR sensor () is disposed in the lamp chamber () to detect external information of the vehicle. A half mirror () is disposed in the lamp chamber () so as to cover the LiDAR sensor () from a side where the translucent cover () is disposed. The translucent cover () has a first transparency to visible light. The half mirror () has a second transparency to the visible light that is lower than the first transparency.

Lamp device, sensor system, and sensor device

A light source () is configured to emit light for lighting a predetermined area. A LiDAR sensor () is configured to sense information of an outside of a vehicle. A first screw mechanism () is configured to adjust posture of the light source (). A second screw mechanism () is configured to adjust posture of the LiDAR sensor (). Adjustment by one of the first screw mechanism () and the second screw mechanism () is performed on the basis of adjustment that has been performed by the other one of the first screw mechanism () and the second screw mechanism ().

Lighting system and sensor system

A front module () is disposed in a front portion of a vehicle (). An upper module () is disposed on a ceiling surface () of the vehicle (). The front module () includes a front light source () and a front sensor (). The upper module () includes an upper light source () and an upper sensor ().

Lighting system

An illumination device to be mounted on a vehicle, includes a light source; a sensor configured to acquire information outside the vehicle based on invisible light; and a cover including a first portion covering the light source and a second portion covering the sensor. The second portion has a lower visible light transmittance than the first portion.

Illumination device

The vehicle headlamp is provided with a main lamp unit fixed and arranged inside a lamp chamber and sub-lamp units as an auxiliary lamp capable of changing and forming light distribution patterns by using semiconductor light emitting elements as light sources. The sub-lamp units are respectively equipped with a vertically changing mechanism for changing the illuminating direction in a vertical direction, a laterally changing mechanism for changing the illuminating direction in a lateral direction and a pattern changing mechanism for changing a light distribution pattern.

Vehicle headlamp

A vehicular headlamp including a light amount control device that controls the amount of light from at least two of a plurality of light source units each having a light-emitting element as the light source. The light amount control device performs a contrasting control of the lamp to increase the amount of light from at least one of the light source units and decrease the amount of light from the other light source unit, thus enhancing the visibility by increasing the amount of light from one light source unit and enhancing the brightness in an area that the unit illuminates, and decreasing the amount of light from the other light source unit that illuminates an area where visibility is required less, lowering the power consumption.

Vehicular headlamp

A vehicular lampincluding a lamp unitprovided inside a lamp chamberso that the optical axis direction of lamp unitis adjustable with the use of a tilting movement adjustment mechanism. The lamp chamberis formed by a lamp bodyand a transparent front coverattached to the front opening of the lamp body, while the lamp unitis formed by a reflectorand a light source. A millimeter wave radar deviceis installed in the vehicular lamp, and it is composed of a controlling unitB and an antenna unitA that are provided separately from each other so that the controlling unit is attached to the lamp body and the antenna unit is attached to the lamp unit.

Vehicular lamp incorporating millimeter radar

A vehicle lighting apparatus can help improve irradiation for different speeds of an automobile. The vehicle lighting apparatus includes lamps for installation at front portions of an automobile. An irradiation direction of the lamps can be deflected in left and right directions based on a steering operation of a steering apparatus, and a rate of change of a deflection angle of the lamps with respect to the steering angle is made smaller as the vehicle speed increases to a high speed.

Vehicle lighting apparatus

A headlamp in which a frame memberis supported on a lamp bodyin a vertically swingable fashion, and a lighting device unitis supported on said frame memberin a horizontally swingable fashion. A control unitcontrols the circular movement of said frame memberand said lighting device unitin accordance with vehicle running conditions. With such a construction, a beam emitted from said lighting device unitmay be vertically and horizontally varied in its direction in accordance with vehicle running conditions.

A vehicle headlamp includes a lamp body having a hollow portion opening forward, a support member supported tiltably in the lamp body, and a plurality of reflectors supported side by side in one of the vertical and lateral directions by the support member. Each reflector is made to support a corresponding light source and least one of the reflectors is pivotably supported by the support member in the horizontal direction. In one embodiment, a lower reflector is pivotable in the horizontal direction and a low beam is formed by an upper reflector and the light source supported by the upper reflector. In this embodiment, the upper reflector does not have any portion that does not affect luminous distribution.

An infrared light irradiation lamp comprises a lighting chamber S formed by a lamp body and a front lens , a reflector provided in the lamp body , a light source provided ahead of the reflector in the lighting chamber S, and a cylindrical globe for infrared light formation which is provided to cover the light source and serves to shield a visible light and to transmit only an infrared light, wherein diffusion steps and are provided in a peripheral region of the light source in the reflector and/or a region in the front lens corresponding to the peripheral region of the light source in the reflector. Thus, a red light component L of a visible light transmitted through the globe and guided to the peripheral region of the light source in the reflector is diffused and reflected (L , L ) or is diffused and emitted through the region of the central part of the front lens so that the luminous flux density of the red light component distributed forward is reduced to dilute a red light emitted from the lamp.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Takashi Hori