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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 18, 2019
Applicant:

Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yuji Yasuda, Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/02 (2006.01); B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); F21S 41/151 (2018.01); H05B 45/10 (2020.01); H05B 45/37 (2020.01); F21S 41/663 (2018.01); B60Q 1/04 (2006.01); F21S 41/141 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/1423 (2013.01); F21S 41/151 (2018.01); H05B 45/10 (2020.01); H05B 45/37 (2020.01); B60Q 1/04 (2013.01); F21S 41/141 (2018.01); F21S 41/663 (2018.01);
Abstract

A vehicle lamp includes: a low beam unit including a first light emitting unit and irradiating light only to region below a cutoff line; a high beam unit including a second light emitting unit and irradiating light to regions around and above the cutoff line; and a lighting controller that controls lighting of the low beam unit and the high beam unit. The lighting controller controls to switch between a low mode in which the low beam unit is turned ON and the high beam unit is turned OFF and a high mode in which the low beam unit and the high beam unit are turned ON, and a first light quantity irradiated by the low beam unit in the high mode is larger than a second light quantity irradiated by the low beam unit in the low mode.


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