A vehicular lamp includes: a main light source that emits light for forming a predetermined irradiation pattern; an optical member that allows the light emitted from the main light source to travel toward a front side in an irradiation direction to form the irradiation pattern; a heat dissipation member that releases heat from the main light source to outside; and a light guide member that guides light from an auxiliary light source provided as a separate body from the main light source. In the heat dissipation member, the heat dissipation member is provided with an opening part that opens a mounting surface provided with the main light source, and the light guide member guides light from the auxiliary light source toward the mounting surface through the opening part.

A vehicle lamp includes a lamp unit which in turn includes a first lamp unit and a second lamp unit each provided with a light transmitting member and is configured to irradiate light emitted from a light emitting element toward a front of the vehicle lamp through the light transmitting member. In each of the first and second lamp units, the light transmitting member includes a direct light controller that directly emits light incident from the light emitting element onto the light transmitting member, toward the front of the vehicle lamp, and a total reflection controller that totally reflects the light and then emits the light toward the front of the vehicle lamp. A total reflection surface of the total reflection controller is divided into a plurality of reflection regions in a circumferential direction around the direct light controller.

A vehicle lamp includes a first lamp unit for forming a first region of a beam pattern, and a second lamp unit for forming a second region of the beam pattern. The first lamp unit and the second lamp unit are arranged in a left-right direction. Each of the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit includes a plurality of lamp modules arranged in the left-right direction, each of the plurality of lamp modules including a light source unit including a light source and a light path adjusting unit. A position of light irradiation region formed by the light emitted from each of the plurality of lamp modules is particularly configured depending on a position of the light source with respect to a rear focal point of the light path adjusting unit.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a lamp for a vehicle, the lamp including a plurality of light sources configured to form two or more types of light distribution patterns, and a light guide unit disposed at one side of the plurality of light sources and having a recessed region having a shape recessed upward in a lower portion of the light guide unit, in which the plurality of light sources includes a first light source disposed rearward of the light guide unit and configured to face a rear portion of the light guide unit, and a second light source disposed below the light guide unit and configured to face a lower portion of the light guide unit, in which the light guide unit includes a first light entering portion provided on a rear portion of the light guide unit and configured such that at least a part of light emitted from the first light source enters the first light entering portion, and a second light entering portion provided in the recessed region of the light guide unit and configured such that at least a part of light emitted from the second light source enters the second light entering portion, and in which the second light entering portion is positioned below a function division plane which is an imaginary plane connecting an uppermost end of the rear portion of the light guide unit and a lowermost end of a front portion of the light guide unit.

The present invention relates to an automotive optical system; the optical system includes one or more first optical elements that reflect light rays emitted from a number of first light sources that are configured to perform a first lighting function and a second optical element; the second optical element is configured to project a light beam from the first optical elements configured to perform the first lighting function where a portion of the second optical element is made of a diffusive material. Furthermore, the optical system includes a number of secondary light sources where the second optical element is configured to receive light ray emissions from the secondary light sources and perform a second lighting function by scattering light rays received from secondary light sources.

A method is provided for storing light distributions of a matrix headlight system. The method includes loading, from a memory, first control data for lighting means of a first matrix light module for generating a first light distribution; feeding the first control data to a comparison module; loading, from the memory, second control data for the lighting means of the first matrix light module or for lighting means of a second matrix light module for generating a second light distribution and feeding the second control data to a comparison module. The method compares the first and second control data; stores the first control data for the first light distribution if there is a similarity or equality between the first and second control data; and linking the second control data for the second light distribution by means of a link to the control data for the first light distribution.

A system may have lights. A light may include a first light source and a first reflector configured to provide lighting for a high-beam mode and for a low-beam mode. The light may include a second light source and a second reflector configured to provide lighting for a cornering light mode. The lighting provided by the first light source and the lighting provided by the second light source may pass through the same headlight lens aperture. A light blocking structure may provide a cutoff pattern that define the illumination pattern of the low-beam lighting and the cornering lighting. One or more additional light sources may be provided to boost the intensity of a hot spot for high-beam lighting.

A vehicle headlamp includes: a first light source unit that forms at least a high-beam light distribution pattern; a second light source unit that forms an additional light distribution pattern and irradiates light with a luminous intensity higher than that of the first light source unit; a posture switching mechanism that switches between a first posture in which an optical axis of the second light source unit is parallel to an optical axis of the first light source unit and a second posture in which the optical axis of the second light source unit is deviated in the horizontal direction by a predetermined angle from the optical axis of the first light source unit; and a controller that controls an ON/OFF state of the second light source unit and an operation state of the posture switching mechanism according to a vehicle speed acquired from a vehicle.

A low-beam zone III lighting module including a light source, lens, transparent optical element and low-beam zone III formation mechanism are herein. The light source, the formation mechanism, the optical element and the lens are sequentially arranged along a light shape formation light path. The formation mechanism includes one first mirror and one second mirror. The first mirror and the second mirror are on two sides of an optical axis of the lens, and are staggered. The light source is at a first focal point of the first mirror and a second focal point of the first mirror coincides with a first focal point of the second mirror. A second focal point of the second mirror is on a light incident face of the transparent optical element. The lens is directly in front of a light-emitting face of the transparent optical element. A headlamp and vehicle are also herein.

A vehicle headlamp system includes a vehicle supported power and control system including a data bus. A sensor module can be connected to the data bus to provide information related to environmental conditions or information relating to presence and position of other vehicles and pedestrians. A separate headlamp controller can be connected to the vehicle supported power and control system and the sensor module through the bus. The headlamp controller can include an image frame buffer that can refresh held images at greater than 30 Hz speed. An active LED pixel array can be connected to the headlamp controller to project light according to a pattern and intensity defined by the image held in the image frame buffer and a standby image buffer can be connected to the image frame buffer to hold a default image.