A vehicle front lighting apparatus includes a lighting device array in which multiple lighting devices are connected in series, multiple bypass circuits, multiple switch elements, a lighting intensity detector, a lighting schedule generator, a lighting controller, a current value detector, a voltage value controller, a detector, and a disconnection determiner. When there is the switch element to be brought into a closed state during a prohibition period from a lighting timing to a post-lighting timing, the lighting schedule generator changes a timing at which the switch element is brought into the closed state outside the prohibition period. The disconnection determiner determines that a disconnection has occurred in any of the bypass circuits when the number of switch elements detected at the post-lighting timing does not match a voltage value.


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    Title :

    Vehicle front lighting apparatus and disconnection detection method


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    Publication date :

    2022-01-04


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    H05B ELECTRIC HEATING , Elektrische Heizung / B60Q ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL , Anordnung von Signal- oder Beleuchtungsvorrichtungen, deren Einbau oder Halterung oder deren Schaltkreise bei Fahrzeugen allgemein



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