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Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 13, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Yuichi Watano, Shizuoka, JP;

Yuta Maruyama, Shizuoka, JP;

Yoshihiro Katsurada, Shizuoka, JP;

Takuya Kataoka, Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); B60Q 1/08 (2006.01); B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); B60Q 1/34 (2006.01); F21S 41/657 (2018.01); F21S 45/70 (2018.01); F21W 102/155 (2018.01); F21W 102/165 (2018.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/0023 (2013.01); B60Q 1/08 (2013.01); B60Q 1/143 (2013.01); B60Q 1/34 (2013.01); F21S 41/657 (2018.01); F21S 45/70 (2018.01); B60R 2300/404 (2013.01); F21W 2102/155 (2018.01); F21W 2102/165 (2018.01); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08);
Abstract

Provided is a lamp mounted on a vehicle where a lamp housing of the lamp is equipped with a lamp camera that captures an image of an object existing outside the vehicle and a lamp unit of which light distribution of emitted light beams is controlled to change based on positional information of the object captured by the lamp camera, in which the lamp camera has an imaging optical axis directed in a predetermined direction with respect to the vehicle, and the lamp unit is configured such that an illumination optical axis is controlled to change in an up-down direction based on the positional information of the object.


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