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US 2021/0231284 A1Published application
Vehicle lamp
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsMitsuharu Mano, Takanori Namba
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Abstract
A lamp unit and a camera are disposed in a lamp housing including a translucent cover, and an aiming adjustment of the camera is enabled. The camera is provided with a lens hood for preventing light emitted from the lamp unit from being incident on the camera. The lens hood has a required gap with respect to the translucent cover and allows the camera to tilt.
Claims16
A vehicle lamp comprising:
- a lamp unit disposed in a lamp housing including a translucent cover;
- an imaging device disposed in the lamp housing and configured to be tiltable;
- and
- a light control unit provided on at least one of the translucent cover and the imaging device, and configured to prevent light emitted from the lamp unit from being incident on the imaging device,
- wherein the light control unit is configured to allow the imaging device to tilt.
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A vehicle lamp comprising:
- an imaging device disposed in a lamp housing which includes a translucent cover and configured to perform imaging through the translucent cover;
- and
- an extension disposed in the lamp housing, configured to cover the imaging device, and having a surface facing an inner surface of the translucent cover configured as a light reflecting surface,
- wherein the extension includes, in a partial region of the light reflecting surface, a surface region forming a gap having a cross-sectional shape a dimension of which between the light reflecting surface and the inner surface of the translucent cover gradually increases as being away from the imaging device in at least one of a horizontal cross section and a vertical cross section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.