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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7658523 | Vehicle headlight leveling device and vehicle headlight equipped with leveling device An axial direction of an output shaft of a motor is perpendicular to an axial direction of a shaft that moves back and forth with respect to a housing unit. A plurality of power-supplying terminals is symmetrically arranged with respect to a vertical line passing th... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7635211 | Aiming device of lighting device for vehicle and lighting device for vehicle An aiming device of a lighting device for a vehicle for transversely and vertically tilting a lamp unit supported tiltably in vertical and transverse directions on one fulcrum in a lamp housing formed by a lamp body having a concave portion which is opened almost fo... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7427152 | Headlamp assembly with integrated housing and heat sink A headlamp assembly for a motor vehicle having a light source, a chamber that receives the light source and a cooling channel for removing heat from the chamber. A conductive wall and an insulating wall cooperate to define the chamber and the channel. The conductive... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7367701 | Headlight assembly structure for a motorcycle A motorcycle headlight assembly that has simplified structure that cost less to manufacture and assemble than a conventional headlight. The headlight assembly may enhance the rigidity of the headlight assembly and decrease the number of components. The headlight ass... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7275846 | Adaptive head light and lens assemblies Disclosed herein is an adaptive head light assembly, comprising a parabolic reflector for housing a filament assembly; a lever arm having one end pivotably affixed to a bearing point of the parabolic reflector; an actuator in operative communication with the other e... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7261443 | Disappearing landscape light An extendable lighting system having a main housing with a bottom wall and upwardly extending side walls. A lamp housing is retractable positioned within the main housing and a flexible diaphragm connects to the main housing above the bottom wall and connects to the... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7234847 | Projector A projector (1) enabling the extension/retraction of a column even when the column is rotated, including the telescopic column (4) installed on a carrier (6) as a base, a lifting and lowering device (21) installed in the column (4)... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7226185 | Illumination system with alignment mechanism and method An illumination system including a plurality of light source modules each including a light-emitting surface and a dome lens, an illumination target and at least one optical device disposed between at least one of the light source modules and the illumination target... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7163323 | Vehicular rotatable lamp unit A vehicular rotatable lamp unit includes a main seat adapted to be mounted on a vehicle, a lamp seat assembly connected pivotally to the main seat, a conducting wire, a first contact assembly mounted on the main seat, and a second contact assembly adapted to be conn... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7106185 | Interior light bar A full function light bar is provided mountable inside a vehicle against the windshield. The light bar is an assembly of several light sources, including strobe lamps, flashing lamps, oscillating lamps, and an aimable take down lamp. The light bar is not limited in ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7057504 | Vehicle headlamp apparatus In a headlamp apparatus comprising a sub-CPU integrally provided on a headlamp for controlling an optical axis direction changing operation and a main CPU for sending out to the sub-control circuit a control signal for changing the direction of the optical axis, the... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7052165 | Vehicle headlight assembly An automotive headlight assembly includes a concave parabolic reflector having a focal axis and a focal point on the axis spaced from the reflector surface. A halogen light source is mounted on an elongated tubular conduit that is oriented on the focal axis of the p... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7009356 | Wiper control apparatus and method for automatic vehicular wiping The wiper control apparatus comprises a precipitation detector, a surrounding state detector and a wiper controller. The precipitation detector detects a precipitation condition at a position where the vehicle is. The surrounding state detector detects an exit of th... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6994458 | Vehicle headlight and process for operation thereof The invention concerns a process for operation of a vehicle headlight as well as a vehicle headlight (1) with a housing and a light source (3) provided within the housing. In accordance with the invention the housing of the vehicle headlight (1)... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6984060 | Vehicle headlamp apparatus and method of setting optical axis position Provided is a reference angle position setting means for setting an optical axis at a reference angle position (direction of going straight ahead: 0°) by detecting the maximum deflection angles when swivel lamps 3R and 3L are pivoted in one direction ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6953274 | AFS for LED headlamp The subject invention comprises an adaptive front lighting system (“AFS”) utilizing at least one light emitting diode (“LED”) as a light source and a means for moving the LED to achieve AFS functionality. An exemplary embodiment of the subject invention comp... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6923563 | Movable headlight unit for use on motor vehicle A headlight unit that is adapted for use on a motor vehicle, such as a land vehicle, can be moved from one orientation with respect to the road into other orientations that are angularly spaced apart from the first orientation in response to movement of a control sw... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6923558 | Filament alignment mechanism for high accuracy lamps A system for aligning a light source to a reflector on a frame for efficiently illuminating a target along a first axis of the reflector. The light source is coupled to an arm that is linearly translatable by a driver assembly coupled to the frame. The travel of the... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6918688 | Vehicle headlamp apparatus A vehicle headlamp device contains a rotation-state recognizing circuit operating such that when any of Hall elements used for controlling a rotational position of a drive motor for deflecting the optical axes in a headlamp device is abnormal, a rotation-state recog... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6918687 | Leveling apparatus for vehicle headlamp A leveling apparatus for a vehicle headlamp has a case body, a motor disposed within the case body, a worm wheel supported by the case body rotatably but unmovably in the longitudinal direction and rotated by the motor and a shaft screwed into the worm wheel. The sh... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6866407 | Vehicle headlight Vehicle headlight including a light emitting unit for emitting a light, an operating member joined with the light emitting unit, the operating member fitted with a magnet, a coil in the vicinity of the operating member for generating a magnetic field, and a housing ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6837603 | Emergency taillight for vehicles, especially for motor vehicles An emergency taillight for a vehicle includes a reflective housing with a transparent cover and a light source resiliently suspended in the focal center thereof. In the first embodiment, the light source is energized by a periodic source of electrical power to provi... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6824302 | Lamp device for vehicle Due to an effect of a solenoid of a moving mechanism, when a valve and a shutter are positioned at a first position, a light source is positioned at a first light source position and a shutter is in a state of closing a window. A lighting luminous flux from a light ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6821005 | Vehicle headlamp In a headlamp comprising low beam irradiating, there are provided main beam irradiating means, light distribution switching means for switching a low beam and a main beam, abnormality detecting means for detecting an abnormal situation in which a proper low beam can... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6773152 | Headlight A headlight for a motor vehicle has a light module with at least one reflector and a light source, a first frame with which at least a part of the light module is connected, a first adjusting element for swivelling the first frame around a first swivel axis, a secon... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6767115 | Pneumatic telescoping mast A pneumatically actuated telescoping mast assembly has a mast axis and comprises a plurality of telescopically interengaged mast tubes having axially opposite ends and being axially slidable relative to one another along the mast axis between retracted and extended ... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6761476 | Multi-axis swivel mechanism The present invention involves an apparatus for swiveling a headlamp body of a vehicle. The apparatus includes a headlamp bracket configured to receive the headlamp body to rotate the headlamp body. The headlamp bracket has a mounting stem and a first receiving port... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6761473 | Vehicle lighting apparatus A vehicle lighting apparatus includes lamp deflection angle controlling means for controlling the change of a deflection angle of a lamp. The vehicle lighting apparatus further includes a reference angular position setting means for setting the deflection angle of t... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6729749 | Automatic headlight axis direction control for vehicles A DC motor is driven with a predetermined driving signal thereto before a headlight axis direction control is started by using a headlight axis control angle calculated on a basis of a variety of sensor information and a positional signal from a potentiometer. If th... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6709140 | Vehicle headlamp unit and vehicle headlight with the headlamp unit A vehicle headlamp unit includes a discharge lamp, a socket to which the discharge lamp is fitted, a base carrying the socket and being compatible with a base of a halogen bulb provided with a high beam filament and a low beam filament, and a moving mechanism, in re... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6648494 | Vehicle lamp and rotary driving apparatus A vehicle lamp includes an optical means whereof the direction of irradiation is change by rotation, a motor, an output shaft for driving the optical means, and a rotation transmitting mechanism for transmitting rotation from the motor to the output shaft... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6623147 | Vehicle lighting apparatus A vehicle lighting apparatus includes abnormality detecting means for detecting abnormality in the AFS of the vehicle lighting apparatus, and means for adjusting optical axis of the lamp in the vertical direction for setting the angle of the optical axis ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6616302 | Vehicle lamp A vehicle lamp includes a drive portion having a drive source, and a lamp body that has a light source and that is supported by a rotary shaft operable to be rotated by the drive portion. A rotary contact is provided around the rotary shaft and rotates to... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6582105 | Extendable mast arrangement having a coded remote control system An extendable mast arrangement, that is supported on a mobile vehicle, having a telescopically extending mast and a mast accessory supported at one end thereof. The mast arrangement having a control system for effecting the movements and functions of the ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6550944 | Vehicle headlamp A vehicle headlamp has a unit pivot control mechanism for laterally moving the luminous intensity distribution of a lamp unit by laterally pivoting the lamp unit according to the travel conditions of the vehicle, and a luminous intensity variable control ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6325528 | Motor vehicle headlight assembly A motor vehicle headlight assembly switchable between low-beam and high-beam modes of operation includes a housing, a reflector component mounted in the housing for displacement relative thereto between a plurality of beam aiming positions, and a light so... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6315435 | Electronically controlled searchlight having multiple preset positions An electronically controlled, programmable searchlight (1), particularly useful for mounting on helicopters. The searchlight (1) uses a digital electronic control circuit (30) in conjunction with rotary potentiometers (32), (34) to control movement of the... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6299336 | Low profile lift mounting arrangement for telescoping mast An improved low profile mounting arrangement is provided for a telescoping tube construction applied to the roof of a vehicle. The lowest mast section is nested between two vertically upright shaft support plates which journal a pivot shaft rotatably secu... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6247835 | Vehicle headlight A vehicle headlight includes a driving unit capable of repeatedly switching the headlight's light distribution pattern between a by-passing mode and a traveling mode by moving an element committed to the formation of the light distribution patterns. The d... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6206555 | Headlight for low beam and high beam of a vehicle A headlight for a low beam and a high beam in a vehicle has a reflector, a light source, an adjusting device operative for displacing the light source relative to the reflector between a position for a low beam and a position for a high beam, the adjustin... | 03/27/2001 |
