US 11,872,604 B2
Image pickup device for vehicle, vehicle lamp and electronic control unit
Naoki Tatara, Shizuoka (JP); and Toshihiro Okamura, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/240,623.
Application 17/240,623 is a division of application No. 15/560,557, abandoned, previously published as PCT/JP2016/058356, filed on Mar. 16, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 2015-060176 (JP), filed on Mar. 23, 2015; application No. 2015-060177 (JP), filed on Mar. 23, 2015; and application No. 2015-060178 (JP), filed on Mar. 23, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0252562 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. B08B 5/02 (2006.01); F21V 19/00 (2006.01); F21V 23/00 (2015.01); B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); B60S 1/08 (2006.01); B60S 1/56 (2006.01); B60S 1/54 (2006.01); B60R 1/00 (2022.01); B60Q 1/26 (2006.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); H04N 23/63 (2023.01); B60Q 1/38 (2006.01); F21S 43/19 (2018.01); B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B08B 5/02 (2013.01) [B60Q 1/0023 (2013.01); B60Q 1/2661 (2013.01); B60Q 1/381 (2022.05); B60Q 9/008 (2013.01); B60R 1/00 (2013.01); B60S 1/0848 (2013.01); B60S 1/54 (2013.01); B60S 1/56 (2013.01); F21S 43/19 (2018.01); F21V 19/00 (2013.01); F21V 23/00 (2013.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); H04N 23/633 (2023.01); B60R 2011/004 (2013.01); B60R 2300/103 (2013.01); B60R 2300/307 (2013.01); B60R 2300/804 (2013.01); B60R 2300/8046 (2013.01); B60R 2300/8066 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle lamp comprising:
an outer housing comprising a housing having an opening and a translucent cover configured to close the opening;
a substrate disposed in the outer housing;
a camera module comprising an image pickup element and disposed on the substrate, and
a light emitting element provided as a light source and disposed on the substrate,
wherein an optical axis of the camera module is inclined more downward than in a horizontal direction,
wherein the translucent cover is provided with a transmission window through which a capturing light to be incident on the camera module is to pass, and
wherein the transmission window is formed to have a shape which is long in an upper and lower direction and is symmetric with respect to the upper and lower direction, and
wherein the translucent cover is provided with a light shield part at a position covering an outer periphery of the transmission window for preventing a light into the camera module, which is to be emitted from the light emitting element and to be guided along an inside of the translucent cover, from entering into the transmission window.