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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7150547 | Turn signal and steering responsive adjustable lighting apparatus for vehicle An apparatus for illuminating an area in front of a vehicle, including a lamp and means for deflecting a radiation direction of the lamp in response to a steering action, except when the steering action is performed in a direction opposite to a direction indicated b... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7118238 | Apparatus for automatically adjusting direction of light axis of vehicle headlight An apparatus for adjusting a direction of a light axis of a swingable auxiliary headlight of a vehicle includes a steered angle sensor detecting a steered angle of a steering wheel of a vehicle, a vehicle speed sensor detecting a vehicle speed of the vehicle, a turn... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7112925 | Vehicle headlamp system and dimming-type vehicle headlamp Lamp units for radiating a beam ahead of a vehicle in a light distribution pattern are housed in a lamp body. Illumination of the auxiliary lamp units is controlled based on driving conditions. Illumination control means extinguish light through dimming by gradually... | 09/26/2006 |
| 6778892 | Vehicle headlamp optical axis control system A lamp's optical axis control system for a vehicle includes vehicle speed sensor, steering angle sensor, a circuit for calculating driver's viewpoint and a controller for controlling the optical axis according to the position of the driver's view point. The controll... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6688760 | Lamp body control system A lamp body control system includes a steering angle sensor, a light emitting unit which can change a illuminating direction laterally, a driving unit changing the illuminating direction, a control unit controlling the driving unit based on an output from... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6626564 | Apparatus and method for automatically adjusting optical axis of vehicle headlights In a headlight optical axis adjusting apparatus and method for a vehicle, the shape of a road in front of the vehicle is detected by a CCD camera based on a change in lane marking line which indicates the lane width on the road, before the steering angle ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6443602 | Vehicle headlamp device A vehicle headlamp device 10 can be equipped with a discharge lamp 11, a beam switch device 13 that is used to switch between the high beam and low beam, a light distribution switch device 14 which broadens the horizontal light distribution in the forward... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6343869 | Light unit for vehicle A light unit 1 for a vehicle has a driving-environment detecting device 2 for detecting information (the shape of the road, the position of the vehicle, whether or not oncoming and preceding vehicle exist, the traffic volume density and ambient luminous i... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6293686 | Lighting device for vehicles The lighting device for a vehicle includes running direction detect means 3 for detecting the vehicle running direction or the vehicle steering angle and vehicle speed detect means 4 for detecting the vehicle speed. An illumination control means 5 specifi... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6176590 | Motor vehicle lighting system having at least two bend lighting driving lights A lighting system for a motor vehicle includes at least two short range driving lights with chopped beams, for illuminating bends in the road. The system includes a control unit for controlling the power supplied to the short-range (bend lighting) driving... | 01/23/2001 |
| 5526242 | Vehicle cornering lamp system A vehicle cornering headlamp system which can be applied to any type of vehicle without changing the correspondence to a radiation angle, and which enables the radiation angle to follow the return of driver's eyes when the vehicle exits a curved road. The... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5498929 | Vehicle lighting enhancement system An implement lighting system providing enhanced turn signal warning with standard or enhanced tractor turn and warning lighting systems. The implement lighting system includes left and right brake lamps for connecting electrically to the ungrounded sides ... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5404278 | Vehicular cornering lamp system A vehicular cornering lamp system in which the amount of electric power consumed by the lamp is minimized. Until the angle of rightward (leftward) steering with respect to the position of straight-ahead steering reaches a predetermined angle θR | 04/04/1995 |
| 5331251 | Automatic corrector of headlight elevation during changes in the attitude of a vehicle A device for automatically correcting the elevation angle of at least one vehicle headlight during changes in the attitude of said vehicle, the device being of the type comprising at least two lighting sensors integrated in the headlight and constrained t... | 07/19/1994 |
| 4963794 | Vehicle cornering headlamp system A vehicle cornering headlamp system in which the direction of illumination of the headlamps of an automobile are made to follow the actual direction of movement of the vehicle, except that the direction of illumination is returned to the straight-ahead di... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4333071 | Self-cancelling apparatus for vehicle turn indicators An electrical translation circuit for detecting the initiation and termination of a turn or change in direction of a motorcycle, automobile, boat or other like vehicle and the cancellation of the turn indicator for that vehicle. Sensors detect relative st... | 06/01/1982 |
