Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshihiro Katsurada

Yuichi Watano

Yuta Maruyama

Osamu Kuboyama

Kosei Kikuchi

Akihito Horikawa

Takuya Kataoka

Eisuke Ikeno

Kenji Furumoto

Takehito Iriba

Daigo Yamamoto

Provided is a lamp mounted on a vehicle where a lamp housing of the lamp is equipped with a lamp camera that captures an image of an object existing outside the vehicle and a lamp unit of which light distribution of emitted light beams is controlled to change based on positional information of the object captured by the lamp camera, in which the lamp camera has an imaging optical axis directed in a predetermined direction with respect to the vehicle, and the lamp unit is configured such that an illumination optical axis is controlled to change in an up-down direction based on the positional information of the object.

Vehicle lamp, and control device and control method for same

A right-side vehicular lamp includes: a lamp housing; a lamp cover; an illumination unit disposed in a lamp chamber; a radar configured to acquire radar data representing the surrounding environment of a vehicle by emitting radio waves toward the outside of the vehicle; a concealment part that is disposed so as to face the radar so as to conceal the radar from the outside of the vehicle and that is configured to allow the radio waves emitted from the radar to pass through; a support member that is fixed to a vehicle body and that is configured to support and fix the radar; and a positioning part that is disposed between the concealment part and the support member and that is configured to determine a position of the radar with respect to the concealment part. The concealment part is formed integrally with the lamp cover. The positioning part is fixed to the concealment part and engages elastically with the support member.

Vehicle lamp and vehicle

A vehicle sensor device () includes an outer cover (), a sensor unit () that transmits and receives an electromagnetic wave through the outer cover () and outputs a signal related to the electromagnetic wave incident on an inner side of the outer cover (), a heater () that is provided in the outer cover () and heats a transmission region (AR) of the outer cover () through which the electromagnetic wave emitted from the sensor unit () passes, and a control unit (CO). The control unit (CO) outputs a detection signal of an object located outside the outer cover () based on the signal from the sensor unit () in at least a part of a period in which the heater () is OFF, and stops outputting of the detection signal in at least a part of a period in which the heater () is ON.

Vehicle sensor device

A vehicle lamp in which a millimeter wave radar is disposed on an outer surface side of an outer lens covering a lamp chamber. The vehicle lamp includes: a holding bracket configured to hold the millimeter wave radar; and a radar cover configured to cover the millimeter wave radar. The holding bracket is fixed to the outer lens in a state of holding the millimeter wave radar, and the radar cover is fixed to the holding bracket in a state of covering the millimeter wave radar.

Vehicular lamp

A left vehicle lamp (L) includes a lamp housing (), a lamp cover () that covers an opening of the lamp housing (), an illumination unit () that is disposed inside a lamp chamber (S) formed by the lamp housing () and the lamp power bar (), a radar () configured to acquire a radar data indicating a surrounding environment of a vehicle by emitting radio waves toward the outside of the vehicle, and a light guide member () that is disposed in a manner of facing the radar () so as to hide at least a part of the radar () from the outside of the vehicle and is configured to transmit radio waves emitted from the radar (). The radar () is disposed outside the housing (S). The light guide member () is configured to emit light toward the outside of the vehicle.

Vehicle light fitting, radar module, radar, and vehicle

A right-side vehicle lamp (R) comprises: a lamp housing (); a lamp cover () that covers an opening in the lamp housing (); a low-beam illumination unit () positioned inside a lamp chamber (S) formed from the lamp housing () and the lamp cover (); radar () configured so as to emit radio waves outside the vehicle, thereby acquiring radar data; and a shielding part () positioned so as to face the radar () so as to shield the radar () from the outside of the vehicle, the shielding part () being configured so as to transmit the radio waves emitted from the radar (). The shielding part () is formed integrally with the lamp cover (). The boundary (B) between the shielding part () and the lamp cover () is positioned outside the field of view (Fv) of the radar ().

Vehicle lamp having radar with concealing part and electromagnetic absorbing cover

A vehicle lamp includes: a lamp housing; a lamp cover; an illumination unit disposed in a lamp chamber; a radar configured to acquire radar data indicating surroundings of a vehicle by emitting an electromagnetic wave outside the vehicle; a concealing part that faces the radar to conceal the radar from the outside of the vehicle and is configured to let the electromagnetic wave emitted from the radar through; a support member that is fixed to a vehicle body and is configured to support and fix the radar; and a positioning part that is disposed between the concealing part and the support member and is configured to position the radar to the concealing part. The concealing part is formed integrally with the lamp cover. The positioning part is fixed to the concealing part and is configured to engage with the support member elastically.

A left vehicle lamp includes a lamp housing, a lamp cover that covers an opening of the lamp housing, an illumination unit that is disposed inside a lamp chamber formed by the lamp housing and the lamp power bar, a radar) configured to acquire a radar data indicating a surrounding environment of a vehicle by emitting radio waves toward the outside of the vehicle, and a light guide member that is disposed in a manner of facing the radar so as to hide at least a part of the radar from the outside of the vehicle and is configured to transmit radio waves emitted from the radar. The radar is disposed outside the housing. The light guide member is configured to emit light toward the outside of the vehicle.

A vehicle lamp includes: a lamp housing; a lamp cover covering an opening of the lamp housing; an illumination unit disposed in a lamp chamber formed by the lamp housing and the lamp cover; a radar configured to acquire radar data indicating surroundings of a vehicle by emitting an electromagnetic wave outside the vehicle; and a concealing part that faces the radar to conceal the radar from the outside of the vehicle and is configured to let the electromagnetic wave emitted from the radar through. The concealing part is formed integrally with the lamp cover. A boundary between the concealing part and the lamp cover is out of a field of view of the radar.

Vehicle lamp having radar with concealing part

A vehicle lamp system includes a vehicle lamp, a first imaging device structured to be disposed outside a lamp room, and generate a first image, a second imaging device structured to be housed in the lamp room, and generate a second image, and a light distribution control device. The light distribution control device includes an information processor structured to acquire from an outside or generate information of a first light shielding part, and decide a second light shielding part, a control executer structured to execute light distribution control for forming a light distribution pattern including the second light shielding part, and a control regulator structured to control the vehicle lamp to form a light distribution pattern including the first light shielding part when at least one condition of a condition (i) to a condition (iv).

Vehicle lamp system, light distribution control device, light distribution control method, vehicle determination device, and vehicle determination method

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Shizuoka, Japan

Yoshihiro Katsurada