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| 20110241422 | WIRING STRUCTURE TO SUPPLY POWER TO LICENSE LIGHT OF TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE A wiring structure to supply power to a license light provided in a two-wheeled vehicle includes a wire, a connector, a vehicle-body-side harness, and a plug. The wire is connected to the license light attached to a fender support. The fender support is attached to a ba... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110204716 | OPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM In an operation control system, when a selection manipulation for blinking one of turn lamps is inputted using an in-vehicle combination switch, a frequency signal corresponding to the selection manipulation is outputted from a signal oscillation section to a signal tra... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20090243489 | ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION CONTROL DEVICE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE An electric power generation control device for a motor vehicle is provided which ensures a satisfactory regenerative effect without entailing flickering of or reduction in life of headlights even if the headlights are turned on at all times. The electric power generati... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20080266888 | VEHICLE MOUNTED ACCESSORY WITH MULTIPLEXING A control for a vehicle mounted accessory that has an electrically operable device. The accessory is operated by a switch that is mounted on the vehicle remote from the accessory. The switch and the electrically operable device are electrically connected by programmable... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080100139 | Illumination control device for vehicle An illumination control unit includes an automatic control function for automatically controlling the turning on and off of vehicle head lights depending on brightness of an environment around a vehicle. A sensitivity adjuster is installed on a lever extending from a st... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20070284945 | Map pocket illumination A map pocket or other compartment illumination system. The system suitable for use in any number of environment and application where it is desirable to illuminate a storage location in response to definable illumination events.... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070159005 | Process and device for regulating the luminous intensity of indicator lights of a piece of monitoring and control equipment in an airplane cockpit In order to adjust the luminance of indicator lights of a piece of monitoring and control equipment for an airplane, the control for regulating luminous intensity of legends and displays is used as a means for acting on the luminance value of the indicator lights. When ... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070142988 | Method for controlling a vehicle's lighting functionality A method for controlling a vehicle's lighting functionality is disclosed herein. The method may include realizing a preferred vehicle lighting configuration and transmitting a signal to the vehicle via a radio frequency communication system. In response to the signal, t... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070069580 | Vehicle headlamp A vehicle headlamp is provided with: a projector lens; a light source bulb; a reflector for reflecting direct light from the light source bulb to the front side; a movable shade; and an actuator for moving the movable shade between a shading position and a shading relie... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20060271261 | Vehicle illumination system and method An apparatus and method for illuminating a vehicle including a light source connected to an illuminatable component such as an interior or exterior vehicle door handle or steering wheel, and a control system including a plurality of sensors that monitor the vehicle and ... | 11/30/2006 |
| 20060167602 | Operating device and in-vehicle electronic device A switch function selector collects vehicle's positional information and road data of roads surrounding the vehicle from a navigation device, and thereby determines whether the turn-signal lamps need controlling. When affirmatively determining, the switch function selec... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060161319 | Operation checking method for adaptive front lighting system An operation checking method for an adaptive front lighting system (AFS), which is applicable to on-line automobile inspections involves an operation checking program prepared to activate the AFS in a manner to perform its prescribed headlamp illumination redirecting fu... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060119181 | Lighting control circuit for vehicle lighting equipment This disclosure relates to protecting a switching regulator by sensing immediately a change in an input voltage when the input voltage of the switching regulator is changed suddenly. When an input voltage of a switching regulator 12 is changed suddenly and an interrupt ... | 06/08/2006 |
| 20060108932 | Vehicular automatic light control apparatus A headlight is turned on if an external illuminance value outside of the vehicle is equal to or lower than a first threshold value if the non-rainfall state is judged from windshield wiper activation, and is permitted to be turned on if the external illuminance value is... | 05/25/2006 |
| 20060106518 | Image acquisition and processing systems for vehicle equipment control The present invention provides improvements in vehicle vision system components, vehicle vision systems and vehicle equipment control systems employing the vision system components and vision systems. ... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060055244 | Lighting control circuit for vehicle lighting equipment A control unit for generating control signals in response to a communication signal fed from a vehicle, and a plurality of supply units for controlling a supply F of current to respective LEDs in compliance with the control signals generated by the control unit are prov... | 03/16/2006 |
| 20060055245 | Lighting control circuit for vehicle lighting equipment A PMOS transistor is inserted in a circuit connecting a power supply terminal of a power supply circuit and a battery terminal. When a control signal input terminal goes to a low level, it is decided that a PWM signal or an H control signal is input into the control sig... | 03/16/2006 |
| 20060019521 | Electronic control unit case An electronic control unit case is disclosed, wherein a coil is provided on the top surface of a block housing control equipment for operating the same. The case protrudes a sidewall from the circumferential part of a plate portion thereof in which a bus bar is embeded ... | 01/26/2006 |
| 20050177283 | Vehicular-light-beam-guidance apparatus used in moving vehicle A vehicular-light-beam-guidance apparatus used in moving vehicle mainly comprising a pair of light-beam apparatus for vehicular guidance, and being fixed nearby the both sides of the vehicle body. Then, a pair of parallel light-beams is spotlighted thereby and projectin... | 08/11/2005 |
| 20050046279 | Steering wheel high beam switch The steering wheel high beam switch provides a switch at the ten and/or two o'clock position on a steering wheel to permits a driver to quickly locate the high beam switch of a vehicle and turn on the high beams without removing hands from the steering wheel. The switch... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050027419 | Automatic optical axis direction adjusting apparatus for vehicles A vehicle headlight apparatus receives road data from a navigation system. The apparatus has a first and a second swivel devices for adjusting an optical axis directions of a main light and a sub-light corresponding to one and the other headlights of a right and a left ... | 02/03/2005 |
