Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicular lamp
- Patent Title (中): 车灯
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Application No.: US14559049Application Date: 2014-12-03
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Publication No.: US09320107B2Publication Date: 2016-04-19
- Inventor: Toda Takeshi , Takao Muramatsu , Tsuchiya Toshiyuki , Masayasu Ito
- Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: unknown Minato-ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: unknown Minato-ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab
- Priority: JP2013-252847 20131206
- Main IPC: H05B37/02
- IPC: H05B37/02 ; H05B33/08 ; B60Q11/00

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a vehicular lamp including bypass circuits parallel to light emitting devices to precisely cope with an abnormality of the bypass circuit side. The vehicular lamp includes: one or more bypass units connected in parallel to at least a part of a plurality of light emitting devices to form a bypass route of the emission driving current so that the light emitting device is turned OFF according to a bypass control signal, or to cut off the bypass route; abnormality detecting units configured to generate state signals each of which indicates an normal state or an abnormal state of each of the bypass units; and a control unit configured to control the formation of the bypass route. When the generated state signal indicates that each of the bypass units is abnormal, supply of the emission driving current from the light source power supply is reduced or stopped.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150163871A1 VEHICULAR LAMP Public/Granted day:2015-06-11
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