Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicular lamp
- Patent Title (中): 车灯
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Application No.: US12557556Application Date: 2009-09-11
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Publication No.: US08227994B2Publication Date: 2012-07-24
- Inventor: Hiroki Shibata , Mikio Urushibata , Hideki Uchida
- Applicant: Hiroki Shibata , Mikio Urushibata , Hideki Uchida
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: JP2008-252347 20080930
- Main IPC: B60Q1/14
- IPC: B60Q1/14

Abstract:
The disclosure facilitates determining the presence of an abnormality of a light source in a vehicular lamp using, as a determination condition, a number of disconnected semiconductor light-emitting elements among multiple semiconductor light-emitting elements. The vehicular lamp includes a first light source block that has light-emitting diodes LED1 to LED6 connected in parallel; a second light source block that has light-emitting diodes LED7 to LED12 connected in parallel; and an abnormality determination circuit that controls a supply of current from an on-board battery to the light source blocks and determines whether an abnormality is presence in the light source blocks. The abnormality determination circuit determines the presence of an abnormality if the disconnected light-emitting diodes in one of the light source blocks exceed a predetermined number and current cannot flow to the light source block. In such case, the supply of current to the light source blocks is stopped.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100079071A1 VEHICULAR LAMP Public/Granted day:2010-04-01
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