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Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 18, 2019
Applicant:

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Daniel T. Neubauer, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Stuart R. Wuerthele, Saline, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/115 (2006.01); B60Q 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/115 (2013.01); B60Q 1/0023 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/11 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/132 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/324 (2013.01); B60Q 2900/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for leveling a headlamp of a vehicle on a ground surface using a portable device may include determining, by a processor and a leveling software application tool of the portable device, a zero reference earth plane of the ground surface on which the vehicle is disposed, setting the zero reference earth plane as a vehicle longitudinal axis of the vehicle with respect to the ground surface, determining a current illumination axis of the headlamp based on a feedback from the headlamp received by the portable device, and generating a calibration level angle based on a comparison of the vehicle longitudinal axis and the current illumination axis.


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