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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7572042 | Leveling device for vehicular headlamp A leveling device helps to prevent misalignment in the axial direction of an adjusting screw with respect to a shaft. A shaft 20 has an insertion cylindrical portion 21 that is in a generally cylindrical shape, and a shaft-side engagement portion 23... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7434748 | Vehicle lamp washing device There are disposed a spray nozzle 12 which includes a supported section 13 and a spray section 14 for spraying cleaning water; a nozzle holder 9 into which the supported section 13 of the spray nozzle 12 is inserted and whic... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7397197 | Discharge lamp lighting circuit A discharge lamp lighting circuit includes a DC/AC converter, a starting circuit, a control unit, a plurality of switching elements driven by the control unit and a series LC resonance circuit. At the time of lighting the discharge lamp, the driving frequency of the... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394108 | Light-emitting device and vehicle lamp A light-emitting device in which a light-emitting element, such as an LED, and an electrostatic protection element for protecting the light-emitting element from electrostatic breakdown are connected in parallel. The light-emitting device is configured such that a c... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7344288 | Lighting system for vehicle A vehicle lighting system 1 reads position data of a plurality of nodes which are situated ahead of and behind the current position of a cruising vehicle using vehicle current position data and road map data to estimate the shape of a driving path by connecti... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7329994 | Lighting system for vehicle A lighting system for a vehicle includes a lamp and a deciding circuit to detect the number of abnormal light emitting elements or the abnormal elements in the lamp. The deciding circuit may be connected to a disconnection detecting circuit by one signal line to det... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7309960 | Vehicular lamp with current controlling unit There is provided a vehicular lamp that can inform walkers or drivers in the other vehicles of the existence of the moving vehicle even where the circumference of the vehicle is bright by emitting a light amount larger than that of normal times when the circumferenc... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7291951 | Actuator including intermediate wall An actuator has a housing that accommodates a motor, an output shaft for rotating a lamp unit that radiates light, a drive mechanism portion formed from a transmission gear system for transmitting rotation from the motor to the output shaft, and a control circuit po... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7282872 | Discharge lamp lighting circuit In a discharge lamp lighting circuit 1, circuits 12, 13, which respectively detect a voltage applied to a discharge lamp 10 and a current flowing through the discharge lamp are provided. Light on/off state, furthermore, light on/off state detect... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7234849 | Vehicle lighting apparatus A vehicle lighting apparatus can help improve irradiation for different speeds of an automobile. The vehicle lighting apparatus includes lamps for installation at front portions of an automobile. An irradiation direction of the lamps can be deflected in left and rig... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7210828 | Vehicle lighting system 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 i... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7204620 | Headlamp device with swivel control for a vehicle Front viewability during turning may be enhanced by a headlamp device for a vehicle arranged to perform swivel control. The headlamp device is arranged so that when a vehicle 2 is turning around a right curve with low beam, the vehicle velocity V and the esti... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7205680 | Vehicular lamp A vehicular lamp used for a vehicle, includes a semiconductor light emitting element for generating light to be emitted by the vehicular lamp and a current controlling unit for changing a current supplied to the semiconductor light emitting element based on the spee... | 04/17/2007 |
