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Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026

Filed:

Jul. 26, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Tomoki Wakasugi, Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/143 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/054 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/056 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/41 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/42 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/45 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle headlight includes a light unit and a control unit. When the plurality of predetermined objects is located in front of the vehicle, the control unit decreases an amount of light in a first region individually overlapping at least a part of each of the predetermined objects in an ADB light distribution pattern, increases an amount of light in a second region following at least a part of an outer edge of each of the first regions and sets a light increase rate in an overlapping region, in which at least a part of one of two of the second regions and the other of the two second regions overlap each other, to be lower than a sum of a light increase rate in one of the two second regions and a light increase rate in the other of the two second regions.


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