B60Q 1/1415
Dimming circuits
Official title: {Dimming circuits}
B60Q1/1415 (Dimming circuits) appears on 1,694 US grants and 1,817 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60Q- Granted patents
- 1,694
- Published applications
- 1,817
- Assignees
- 393
- Inventors
- 2,673
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 25 | 30 |
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| 2004 | 25 | 36 |
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| 2021 | 95 | 121 |
| 2022 | 105 | 111 |
| 2023 | 105 | 148 |
| 2024 | 114 | 120 |
| 2025 | 94 | 100 |
| 2026 | 72 | 75 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Low beam dimming method for situational glare6 Oct 2026US 12,752,696 B2Valeo Vision
- Vehicle lamp system, control device, illuminating state restriction method, and recording medium6 Oct 2026US 12,752,697 B2Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Automatic travel management device6 Oct 2026US 12,752,698 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Vehicle lamp system and active light adjustment method for a vehicle lamp system29 Sep 2026US 12,746,870 B2Wistron Corporation
- Lighting module for exterior lighting of vehicles22 Sep 2026US 12,741,590 B2Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
- Integrated circuit for connecting a headlamp light source module to a bus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311630 A1Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
- Control apparatus for vehicle headlight, vehicle headlight system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296298 A1Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
- Vehicle lamp control device, control method for vehicle lamp control device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296299 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Vehicular vision system with headlamp safety control24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285219 A1Magna Electronics Inc.
- Vehicle headlight17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274153 A1Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automatic rearview mirror system using a photosensor array1,778US 5,550,677 ADonnelly Corporation · 1996
- Rearview vision system for vehicle including panoramic view1,778US 5,670,935 ADonnelly Corporation · 1997
- Vehicle headlight control using imaging sensor1,368US 5,796,094 ADonnelly Corporation · 1998
- Display enhancements for vehicle vision system1,367US 5,949,331 ADonnelly Corporation · 1999
- Automatic rearview mirror, vehicle lighting control and vehicle interior monitoring system using a photosensor array1,303US 5,877,897 ADonnelly Corporation · 1999