Vehicle lamp
AssigneeStanley Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsTadashi Kawata, Junpei Inmaru, Jun Ando
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Abstract
A vehicle lamp can include: a first light source configured to emit visible light; a reflective surface designed to reflect the visible light emitted by the first light source and form a light distribution pattern for a vehicle lamp; and a LiDAR apparatus including a second light source configured to emit light for detecting an object to be detected to be transmitted to a first detection range and a light-receiving element configured to output, when return light being reflected light of the light for detecting the object to be detected having been reflected by the object to be detected is incident to the light-receiving element, an electric signal corresponding to an intensity of the return light, in which the LiDAR apparatus is arranged.
Claims15
A vehicle lamp, comprising:
- a first light source configured to emit visible light;
- a reflective surface designed to reflect the visible light emitted by the first light source and form a light distribution pattern for a vehicle lamp;
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- a LiDAR apparatus including a second light source configured to emit light for detecting an object to be detected to be transmitted to a first detection range and a light-receiving element configured to output, when return light being reflected light of the light for detecting the object to be detected having been reflected by the object to be detected is incident to the light-receiving element, an electric signal corresponding to an intensity of the return light, wherein
- the LiDAR apparatus is arranged so that the light for detecting the object to be detected which is emitted by the second light source and which is reflected by the reflective surface is transmitted to a second detection range that is wider than the first detection range;
- the reflective surface includes a plurality of reflection regions formed by dividing the reflective surface, and
- each of the reflection regions is designed as a convex surface or a concave surface so as to diffuse visible light emitted by the first light source and reflected by the reflection region in the horizontal direction and to form a light distribution pattern for the vehicle lamp.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.