Vehicle lighting system
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsKiyotaka Fukawa, Naohisa Tatara
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Abstract
A vehicle lighting system includes a plurality of lamps having their own inherent respective light distribution characteristics. The plurality of lamps includes a first lamp to irradiate an area excluding a nearest field area just in front of a vehicle, and a second lamp which irradiates only the nearest field area. The plurality of lamps are operable to be simultaneously or selectively lit, and are operable so that irradiation lights of the lamps are combined so as to obtain a particular light distribution characteristic in accordance with various driving conditions of a vehicle.
Claims10
A vehicle lighting system comprising:
- a plurality of lamps having their own respective inherent light distribution characteristics,
- wherein the plurality of lamps comprises:
- a first lamp to irradiate a first portion of a low beam light distribution pattern excluding a nearest field area just in front of a vehicle;
- and
- a second lamp to irradiate a second portion of the low beam light distribution pattern primarily including the nearest field area,
- wherein the plurality of lamps are operable to be selectively lit, and
- wherein the first and second lamps are operable to be selectively lit in combination so as to obtain a combined light distribution pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.