发明名称 Control apparatus for vehicle lamp and vehicle lamp system
摘要 A control apparatus for a vehicle lamp includes a receiver to receive an acceleration signal indicative of an acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor, and a controller to derive an inclination angle of a vehicle relative to a horizontal plane from the acceleration signal. While the vehicle is stopped and if a change in the acceleration exceeds a threshold, the controller outputs an adjustment signal indicative of an instruction to adjust an optical axis of the vehicle lamp in accordance with a difference in the inclination angle before and after the change in the acceleration.
申请公布号 US9238431(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.01.19
申请号 US201213473858 申请日期 2012.05.17
申请人 Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 发明人 Kasaba Yusuke;Yamazaki Masashi;Toda Atsushi
分类号 B60Q1/00;F21V1/00;B60Q1/10;G01C9/00 主分类号 B60Q1/00
代理机构 Fish & Richardson P.C. 代理人 Fish & Richardson P.C.
主权项 1. A control apparatus for a vehicle lamp, the control apparatus comprising: a receiver to receive an acceleration signal indicative of an acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor; a memory; and a controller to derive an inclination angle of a vehicle relative to a horizontal plane from the acceleration signal, wherein, while the vehicle is stopped and if a change in the acceleration exceeds a threshold, the threshold corresponding to a change in the acceleration due to a vibration of the vehicle, the controller outputs an adjustment signal indicative of an instruction to adjust an optical axis of the vehicle lamp in accordance with a difference in the inclination angle before and after the change in the acceleration, wherein the inclination angle of the vehicle with respect to the horizontal plane includes a sum of a first angle and a second angle, the first angle being an inclination angle of a road surface relative to the horizontal plane, and the second angle being an inclination angle of the vehicle relative to the road surface, wherein a reference value of the second angle is stored in the memory, and wherein, when the change in the acceleration exceeds the threshold while the vehicle is stopped, the controller updates the reference value of the second angle by using the difference in the inclination angle before and after the change as a difference in the second angle to change the reference value of the second angle by an angle corresponding to the difference, and generates the adjustment signal by using the updated reference value of the second angle.
地址 Tokyo JP
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