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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2018
Applicant:
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Takeshi Waragaya, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuhiro Uchida, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); B60Q 1/08 (2006.01); B60Q 11/00 (2006.01); B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); H05B 45/10 (2020.01); H05B 47/105 (2020.01); B60W 40/072 (2012.01); F21W 102/145 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/085 (2013.01); B60Q 1/143 (2013.01); B60Q 11/00 (2013.01); B60W 40/072 (2013.01); H05B 45/10 (2020.01); H05B 47/105 (2020.01); B60Q 2300/054 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/056 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/122 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/322 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/41 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/45 (2013.01); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); F21W 2102/145 (2018.01);
Abstract
An apparatus for controlling an adaptive drive beam mode vehicle headlamp of a subject vehicle travelling a road includes a headlamp driver adapted to drive the vehicle headlamp, a preceding vehicle determining section adapted to determine whether or not a preceding vehicle is travelling ahead of the subject vehicle, a road state determining section adapted to determine whether a state of the road is straight or curved, and a curved-mode illumination intensity pattern outputting section adapted to output a curved-mode illumination intensity pattern to the headlamp driver.