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Granted Patent B2
US 11,999,286 · App. 17/640,436 · Granted Jun 4, 2024

Vehicle drawing device

Inventor: Yuichi Shibata (Shizuoka, JP)
Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
B60Q1/38B60Q1/381B60Q2400/50
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Patent No.
US 11,999,286
App. No.
17/640,436
Granted
Jun 4, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle drawing device draws a sign on a road surface with amber-colored light. When a luminance of the sign is assumed as a road surface drawing luminance, and a luminance in a surrounding environment of a driving vehicle is assumed as a background luminance, the amber-colored light is irradiated such that a luminance contrast calculated by the road surface drawing luminance and the background luminance is 0.2 or more.

Claims (12)

1. A vehicle drawing device that draws a sign on a road surface with amber-colored light,

wherein, when a luminance of the sign is assumed as a road surface drawing luminance, and a luminance in a surrounding environment of a driving vehicle is assumed as a background luminance, the amber-colored light is irradiated such that a luminance contrast calculated by the road surface drawing luminance and the background luminance is 0.2 or more, and

wherein an angle formed by an inclination direction at a tip end of the sign with respect to an irradiation direction of the amber-colored light is less than 120 degrees.

2. The vehicle drawing device according to claim 1 , wherein an ON/OFF of the vehicle drawing device is performed at a same timing as an ON/OFF of a turn signal lamp.

3. The vehicle drawing device according to claim 1 , wherein the amber-colored light is irradiated such that the luminance contrast is less than 1.0.

4. A vehicle drawing device that draws a sign on a road surface with amber-colored light,

wherein a maximum luminous intensity in a light distribution pattern of light irradiated from the vehicle drawing device is three times or more of a maximum luminous intensity in a light distribution pattern of light irradiated from a turn signal lamp, and

wherein an angle formed by an inclination direction at a tip end of the sign with respect to an irradiation direction of the amber-colored light is less than 120 degrees.

5. The vehicle drawing device according to claim 4 , wherein an ON/OFF of the vehicle drawing device is performed at a same timing as an ON/OFF of the turn signal lamp.

6. The vehicle drawing device according to claim 4 , wherein a plurality of signs is drawn, and

a maximum luminous intensity in a light distribution pattern of light that draws at least one sign among lights that draw the plurality of signs is three times or more of the maximum luminous intensity in the light distribution pattern of the light irradiated from the turn signal lamp.

7. The vehicle drawing device according to claim 4 , wherein the maximum luminous intensity in the light distribution pattern of light irradiated from the vehicle drawing device is twenty times or less of the maximum luminous intensity in the light distribution pattern of light irradiated from the turn signal lamp.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 4, 2022
From: SHIBATA, YUICHI
To: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 059169/0417 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-163835 · Sep 9, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220341560A1 · Oct 27, 2022
Cited By (1)
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