Control device for actuator, lamp, and calibration method for same
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroyasu GOTO
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Abstract
A vehicle headlamp (1) includes: a lamp unit (15); an actuator (20) capable of tilting the lamp unit (15) such that an emission direction of light of the lamp unit (15) is inclined in a vertical direction; a sensor (71) that is tilted together with the lamp unit (15) and outputs a signal related to an inclination angle of the lamp unit (15); and a control device (72) that receives the signal from the sensor (71) and controls the actuator (20).
Claims7
A control device for an actuator capable of tilting a lamp unit such that an emission direction of light is inclined in a vertical direction, wherein
- the control device receives a signal related to an inclination angle of the lamp unit from a sensor that is tilted together with the lamp unit and outputs the signal, and controls the actuator.
an actuator capable of tilting the lamp unit such that an emission direction of light of the lamp unit is inclined in a vertical direction;
- a sensor that is tilted together with the lamp unit and outputs a signal related to an inclination angle of the lamp unit;
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- a control device that receives the signal and controls the actuator.
A calibration method for a lamp including a lamp unit, an actuator capable of tilting the lamp unit such that an emission direction of light of the lamp unit is inclined in a vertical direction, a triaxial acceleration sensor that is tilted together with the lamp unit and outputs a signal related to a vector indicating a gravity direction, a memory that stores information related to a reference horizontal vector indicating a horizontal direction parallel to a vertical plane parallel to the emission direction in a coordinate system of the acceleration sensor in a first state where an orientation of the emission direction in the vertical direction is a predetermined direction, and a measurement unit that measures an inclination angle of the emission direction in the vertical plane based on the signal and the information related to the reference horizontal vector,
- the method comprising:
- a first arrangement step of placing the lamp in the first state;
- a first acquisition step of obtaining information related to a first vector indicating a gravity direction in the coordinate system of the acceleration sensor in the first state;
- a second arrangement step of bringing the lamp into a second state where the emission direction is inclined by a predetermined angle in the vertical plane from the first state;
- a second acquisition step of obtaining information related to a second vector indicating a gravity direction in the coordinate system of the acceleration sensor in the second state;
- a third acquisition step of obtaining information related to a third vector that is included in a plane including the first vector and the second vector and is perpendicular to the first vector;
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- a storage step of causing the memory to store the information related to the third vector as the information related to the reference horizontal vector.
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