Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Takuya Kitazono

Fumihiko Mouri

Norikatsu Myojin

Yoshihisa Iwamoto

Yasuo Toko

To reliably perform light irradiation in a vehicular lamp system using a liquid crystal element even in a cryogenic environment. A control device for a vehicular lamp comprising a light source and a liquid crystal element where the liquid crystal element is set to a light-shielded state and the light source is set to a light-on state to heat the liquid crystal element by the light emitted from the light source when the temperature of the liquid crystal element is estimated to be lower than a predetermined value.

Control device for vehicular lamp, control method for vehicular lamp, vehicular lamp system

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

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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Yokohama, Japan

Takuya Kitazono