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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2005
Kiyotaka Fukawa, Shizuoka, JP;
Tomoyuki Sakai, Shizuoka, JP;
Norihisa Sutou, Shizuoka, JP;
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle lighting system comprising an additional illumination lamp for additionally illuminating ahead of a vehicle and a control means for controlling turn-on and turn-off of the additional illumination lamp so as to follow a steering angle at which the vehicle is steered. The control means sets a turn-on reference steering angle θfor turning on the additional illumination lamp based on the steering angle, a primary turn-off reference steering angle θfor turning off the additional illumination lamp at a steering angle which is smaller than the turn-on reference steering angle θand a secondary turn-off reference steering angle θfor turning off the additional illumination lamp at a steering angle which is larger than the primary turn-off reference steering angle θwhen the vehicle is steered to a predetermined steering angle which is larger than the turn-on reference steering angle θ