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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169147 | Circuit for vehicle lighting A circuit for driving a vehicle lamp includes a current path coupled between a power line and ground, and a monitoring unit coupled to the power line. The current path includes a dummy load. The monitoring unit can monitor a testing signal applied to the power line.... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8154207 | Light apparatus control system for vehicle A control unit determines whether a vehicle has entered an area under a covering object that covers the upper side of the vehicle. In the case where the control unit determines that the vehicle has entered the area under the covering object, the control unit turns o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8129908 | Navigation light device for an aircraft, in particular a military airplane The navigation lighting device for an aircraft, in particular a military aircraft and preferably a fighter aircraft is provided with several navigation light units with navigation lights, a power supply unit for the navigation tight units, and a central actuation un... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8110989 | Lighting controller of lighting device for vehicle A lighting controller of a lighting device for a vehicle includes M (M is an integer of one or more) switching regulators for supplying driving currents to first to Nth (N is an integer of one or more) semiconductor light sources; first to Nth current driving portio... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8080942 | System and method for electronic adaptive front-lighting A system and method relates to electronic adaptive front-lighting of a vehicle, including at least one fixed solid state light source. The fixed solid state light source is configured to illuminate a front peripheral region of a vehicle. In addition, the fixed solid... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8044593 | Methods and systems for controlling the activation of agricultural vehicle lighting An agricultural vehicle lighting system includes a plurality of HID lamps and a lighting controller. The HID lamps are configured to be mounted to the agricultural vehicle and powered by an existing electrical circuit of the agricultural vehicle. The lighting contro... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7999478 | Vehicle headlight device A vehicle headlight device includes a lower beam unit for illuminating a lower beam, an upper beam/infrared ray switching unit for switching between illuminating an upper beam and an infrared ray, a low-beam abnormality detecting circuit for detecting an abnormality... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7952290 | Current-regulated light emitting device for vehicle use A current-regulated light emitting device for vehicle use includes a light emitting unit and a current limiting unit. The current limiting unit includes first and second switches and first and second bias units. The first switch is for making and breaking an electri... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7948184 | Vehicle testing lamp apparatus, system, and method A vehicle testing lamp system comprising an onboard controller unit, an off-board controller unit, and a lamp fixture. The onboard controller unit comprises a solid state relay, the solid state relay being switchable between an idle output power setting and a high o... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7928660 | Vehicular conspicuity lamp with rapidly modulated intensity A method and apparatus is used to rapidly modulate the intensity of a vehicular lamp for the purpose of enhancing the vehicle's conspicuity. A timer is used to generate a periodically varying pulse width modulated signal that is used to drive a transistor connected ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7893622 | Circuit apparatus of LED vehicle lamp A circuit apparatus of an LED vehicle lamp is disclosed. The circuit apparatus includes an input unit, an LED unit and a current limiting unit. The LED unit includes at least one light-emitting device. Each light-emitting device includes at least one LED and a prote... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7868555 | Enhanced vehicle side signal lighting system The present invention relates to a vehicle side light system for signaling an event that is directly connected to a vehicle's signaling system and power source. The system comprises at least one series of lights having multiple light emitting devices set in a row, a... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7863822 | Operating element for a vehicle An operating element for a vehicle (1, 160) for operation of a function of vehicle (1, 160), especially by pressing on the operating element or touching the operating element, is designed in such a way that the operating element includes a front electr... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852007 | Automobile room lamp system An automobile room lamp system is provided, which comprises a first circuit having a power source with positive and negative poles, a light emitting diode, a miniature incandescent bulb and a push switch, said light emitting diode, said miniature incandescent bulb a... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7768208 | Discharge lamp apparatus In a discharge lamp apparatus for lighting a discharge lamp, a ballast is disposed outside of a lamp housing of a discharge lamp and is electrically connected to the discharge lamp through a connector. A ballast housing of the ballast is connected to a bottom wall o... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7755293 | Method for protecting a lamp circuit and related wiring A method for controlling a lamp circuit that includes: setting a first voltage threshold and a first time window within a control circuit corresponding to a characteristic of a first lamp type; providing a first signal through the lamp circuit to start a first time ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7642723 | Vehicular lamp lighting circuit A vehicular lamp lighting circuit includes a control unit configured to control an electric current that flows to a light source unit. The control unit has an electric current supply section configured to output the electric current to the light source unit, a switc... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7638947 | Lighting control circuit for vehicle lighting fixture Relative comparison is made between a voltage applied to the whole of the first through eighth LEDs and a voltage applied to the first LED by a comparator. When the voltage applied to the whole of the LEDs has relatively dropped with respect to the voltage applied t... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7589471 | System for pre-indication of motor vehicle HID lamp feature Vehicle high intensity discharge lamps are available with three wire ballasts which emit a signal indicating proximate shutdown of the ballast and thus failure of the bulb energized by the ballast. The signal provides indication to a vehicle electrical controller wh... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7541743 | Adaptive vehicle communication controlled lighting system A vehicle safety system (10) includes a light source (32). A beam-forming assembly (34) is optically coupled to the light source (32). An object detection sensor (16) detects an object and generates an object detection signal. A co... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7531964 | Discharge lamp apparatus In a discharge lamp apparatus for lighting a discharge lamp, a ballast is disposed outside of a lamp housing of a discharge lamp and is electrically connected to the discharge lamp through a connector. A ballast housing of the ballast is connected to a bottom wall o... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7525254 | Vehicle lighting methods and apparatus Vehicle lighting methods and apparatus, in which an LED-based light source is configured to generate at least visible radiation associated with a vehicle. The light source is controlled such that the generated visible radiation has a variable color over a range of c... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7429825 | Headlight beam control system and headlight beam control method A headlight beam control system includes an image taking apparatus for capturing an image to the rear of the user's vehicle and for generating image data from the captured image, a following vehicle information acquisition unit for acquiring following vehicle inform... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7385431 | Input circuit and an electronic control unit provided with such an input circuit An input circuit commonly uses input ports of a microcomputer for a plurality of contact input terminals such as switches provided on the way to the ground. Transistors (Q1) to (Q8) whose bases are connected with contact input terminals (IN1) to... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7372055 | Night vision infrared illuminator An illuminator assembly is provided for supplying night vision illumination. The assembly includes a support housing and an infrared illumination source. An infrared reflector receives the radiation emitted from the infrared illumination source and reflects the infr... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372210 | Method and apparatus for lamp heat control A lamp drive circuit includes an electronic switch in series with the lamp and a source of DC voltage, a control input of the switch being pulse-width-modulated by a control circuit which includes a temperature-sensing circuit for reducing the pulse-width-modulation... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7362217 | Interior illumination system and method for a motor vehicle A system and method for providing interior illumination in a motor vehicle is disclosed. The system and method include provisions for adjusting the interior lighting conditions to improve visibility of the illuminated objects under different ambient lighting conditi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358683 | Automatic PWM controlled driver circuit and method A load driver circuit includes an output transistor configured to drive a load. The circuit further includes a power supply, and a power supply evaluation circuit configured to sense a characteristic of the power supply, and generate a control signal in response the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353614 | Vehicle compass system with continuous automatic calibration The compass system of the present invention utilizes an improved calibration routine in which a processing circuit of the compass recalibrates the compass each time three data points are obtained from a magnetic field sensor that meet predetermined criteria. One suc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352132 | Metal halide lamp and metal halide lamp lighting device with improved emission power maintenance ratio A metal halide lamp includes a refractory, light-transmitting hermetic vessel, a pair of electrodes sealed in thehermetic vessel, a discharge medium including a halide and a rare gas, and metal storing means storing at least one selected from the group consisting of... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352339 | Diffuse illumination systems and methods The systems and methods disclosed herein relate to sources of diffuse illumination for providing substantially uniform illumination to a surface. The diffuse illumination arises from varying the diffusion angle of light generated by an LED system. To vary the diffus... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342188 | Rotary light switch for motor vehicles A rotary light switch for motor vehicles is presented that ensures a feel that is not susceptible to mechanical influences. The rotary light switch has an actuator that can be rotated around an axis and that can be moved in the axial direction, and that is non-rotat... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333021 | Opening/closing apparatus for vehicle door An opening/closing apparatus for a vehicle door includes: a door handle secured to an outer surface of the vehicle door, the door handle being manipulated by a user for opening and closing the vehicle door; an operation detecting portion for checking w... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7332877 | Light controller A light controller capable of varying the brightness of a light emitting diode in a linear manner. The light controller may control a number of lights in a predetermined pattern or in a pattern designed by the user. A remote control may be used to control and intera... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7325953 | Vehicle exterior mirror system with turn signal light assembly A vehicular exterior rearview mirror system suitable for use on a vehicle includes an exterior mirror assembly adapted for mounting to a side of a vehicle and a turn signal light assembly. The mirror assembly includes a reflectance element that is moveably mounted o... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327203 | PWM signal generation circuit and PWM control circuit A PWM signal generation circuit and a PWM control circuit are provided in which the duty ratio is easily changed and which can also avoid adverse impact from ambient temperature changes and the like. At the beginning of charging a capacitor with a current flow, a vo... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323831 | Illumination device An illumination device has an illumination unit which glows when current flows through a load thereof, at least one instruction unit for instructing the illumination unit to glow, a PWM signal generating unit which generates a plurality of PWM signals based on that ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318662 | Vehicular headlamp A vehicular head lamp includes a first light source module having a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements and a second light source module connected in series to the first light source module, having semiconductor light emitting elements the number of w... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315095 | Voltage regulating apparatus supplying a drive voltage to a plurality of loads In a soft start period after power-on, a voltage regulating apparatus checks LED by LED to determine whether the LED is mounted on a position to receive a drive voltage. After the soft start period, the voltage regulating apparatus monitors the driving status of eac... | 01/01/2008 |
