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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2019
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Yasuda, Shizuoka, JP;
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
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.