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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2020
Applicant:
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21S 41/675 (2018.01); F21S 41/32 (2018.01); B60Q 1/076 (2006.01); F21W 102/20 (2018.01); F21W 102/13 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F21S 41/675 (2018.01); B60Q 1/076 (2013.01); F21S 41/32 (2018.01); F21W 2102/13 (2018.01); F21W 2102/20 (2018.01);
Abstract
A vehicle lamp includes a first lamp unit that includes a light source, a driving unit, and a reflective body that is driven by the driving unit to repeat a periodic motion and thus scans an exit beam from the light source; and a controlling unit that controls the first lamp unit. The controlling unit instructs that the driving unit be driven until a first duration Thas passed even in a case where the controlling unit has received an illumination instruction instructing the first lamp unit to emit a beam and then received a stop instruction instructing the first lamp unit to stop emitting a beam.