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20110019555 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - To provide a communication apparatus for achieving further improvements in communication quality and power saving effect, without depending on network environments. A portable terminal ( | 01-27-2011 |
20110113123 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, CONTENT REPRODUCTION METHOD, CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND SERVER - The content reproduction device receives, from a server, information for indicating the location of content reproduction control information that is required for acquiring the content reproduction control information, and acquires the content reproduction control information from the server. Then, the content reproduction device extracts AV data and clip identification information for specifying clip information for managing the AV data. Then, the content reproduction device converts a predetermined part of the information for indicating the location of the content reproduction control information by applying the clip identification information and a predetermined conversion rule, generates information for indicating the location of the clip information and the AV data, and acquires the clip information and the AV data from the server. | 05-12-2011 |
20120128333 | TRANSMISSION CONTROLLER, RECEPTION CONTROLLER, TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD, RECEPTION CONTROL METHOD AND TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM - A transmission control device generates, based on a content stream acquired from an external source, auxiliary information necessary for at least one of recording and playback of a content in the content stream and transmits a transmission target stream to an external device. The transmission target stream includes a first stream portion based on the content stream and a second stream portion based on the generated auxiliary information. | 05-24-2012 |
20140003790 | CONTENT PLAYBACK DEVICE, CONTENT PLAYBACK SYSTEM, AND CONTENT PLAYBACK METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140149497 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - A control device including: an input unit which accepts input of a reproduction mode; a content reproduction device determination unit which determines whether content is to be reproduced by a content reproduction device or by the control device, in accordance with the reproduction mode; and a display unit which displays reproduced content, wherein the content reproduction device determination unit transmits a content reproduction instruction to the content reproduction device if the content reproduction device determination unit determines that the content is to be reproduced by the content reproduction device, and the content reproduction device determination unit causes the display unit to display the content acquired from a server if the content reproduction device determination unit determines that the content is to be reproduced by the control device. | 05-29-2014 |
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20080249163 | Process For Producing Product Containing Proanthocyanidin in High Proportion - A proanthocyanidin-containing product containing a large amount of highly bioactive OPCs can be obtained easily by treating an extract or juice of a plant with at least two types of adsorbents that differ from one another in at least one of material, pore radius, specific surface area, and an ability of adsorbing and releasing a substance based on the molecular weight of the substance. | 10-09-2008 |
20080286392 | Body Fat-Reducing Agent - The present invention provides a body fat-reducing agent containing a processed pueraria flower as an active component. The body fat-reducing agent has a superior body fat-reducing effect. Furthermore, the body fat-reducing agent may contain at least one of a lipid absorption suppressing component and a lipid metabolism promoting component. A food product, which contains the body fat-reducing agent, provided according to the present invention has superior effects of preventing body fat accumulation and reducing body fat. | 11-20-2008 |
20090110760 | Lipometabolism improver containing pine bark extract - As a lipid metabolism improving agent for allowing lipids in the body to be metabolized efficiently, a lipid metabolism improving agent containing a pine bark extract as an active component is provided. The lipid metabolism improving agent of the present invention has abilities to promote cholesterol excretion, inhibit lipid absorption, reduce body fat, and inhibit fat accumulation, and the like. | 04-30-2009 |
20090124818 | METHOD OF PRODUCING PROANTHOCYANIDIN-CONTAINING MATERIAL - The method for producing proanthocyanidin-containing product of the present invention comprises the steps of providing a pine bark as a starting material, extracting the pine bark with at least one of water and an organic solvent, and treating the resultant extract with a synthetic resin adsorbent, wherein the pine bark has characteristics in that at least 7 wt % of solid material in terms of dry weight is obtained from a pine bark extract that is obtained by adding 10 parts by volume of an aqueous ethanol solution containing ethanol in the range of 50 to 80 volume % to one part by weight of the pine bark, and performing extraction at 80 to 85° C. for one hour. It is possible to conveniently and efficiently obtain proanthocyanidin-containing product that contains at least 10 wt % of OPCs. | 05-14-2009 |
20100004329 | ALCOHOL METABOLISM ENHANCER AND ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE - An alcohol metabolism enhancer is made from safe plant extracts and an alcoholic beverage and causes a reduced sick feeling and hangover from drinking alcohol without causing hemolysis using safe materials derived from plants. The alcohol metabolism enhancer and the alcoholic beverage include proanthocyanidins, such as pine bark extracts. | 01-07-2010 |
20100028473 | BODY FAT-REDUCING AGENT - Described are body fat-reducing agents containing a processed pueraria flower as an active component. The body fat-reducing agent has a superior body fat-reducing effect. Furthermore, the body fat-reducing agent may contain at least one of a lipid absorption suppressing component and a lipid metabolism promoting component. A food product, which contains the body fat-reducing agent, provided according to the present invention has superior effects of preventing body fat accumulation and reducing body fat. | 02-04-2010 |
20110159128 | ALCOHOL METABOLISM ENHANCER AND ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE - An alcohol metabolism enhancer is made from safe plant extracts and an alcoholic beverage and causes a reduced sick feeling and hangover from drinking alcohol without causing hemolysis using safe materials derived from plants. The alcohol metabolism enhancer and the alcoholic beverage include proanthocyanidins, such as pine bark extracts. | 06-30-2011 |
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20100064993 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An internal combustion engine includes: a variable valve train mechanism, configured to receive a cam displacement of an inlet cam so as to vary a driving output for driving an inlet valve continuously from a maximum valve lift to a minimum valve lift so as to match the driving output with a running condition of the internal combustion engine; and a control part, configured to control the variable valve train mechanism so as to set a valve lift of the inlet valve to a starter valve lift when starting the internal combustion engine in a cold state. The starter valve lift is formed so that a valve opening period of the inlet valve is set to encompass an overall area of an induction stroke period of the internal combustion engine from a top dead center to a bottom dead center of the induction stroke period. | 03-18-2010 |
20100116231 | VARIABLE VALVE GEAR FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Disclosed is a variable valve gear comprising a camshaft phase change mechanism, which variably controls a phase of an intake cam with respect to a crankshaft, and a variable valve lift mechanism, which changes an opening timing of an intake valve more than a closing timing and basically continuously varies a lift and an open period of the intake valve. The lift and the open period are set lest the intake valve interfere with a piston of an engine, with the phase controlled to be most advanced by the camshaft phase change mechanism and the lift controlled to be maximal by the variable valve lift mechanism. | 05-13-2010 |
20100116232 | VARIABLE VALVE GEAR FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - In a variable valve gear for an internal combustion engine provided with a camshaft phase change mechanism for variably controlling opening and closing timings of an intake valve, the camshaft phase change mechanism and a variable valve lift mechanism are controlled so that the closing timing of the intake valve is advanced beyond a predetermined range T | 05-13-2010 |
20140163796 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - An ignition switch is turned on, and when an abnormality is detected in any of electronic control instruments or sensors, real failure is established, and a fail-safe process is performed. After a lapse of a predetermined period from the establishment of the real failure, fault determination is established, a failure level is sent, and a hybrid fail-safe process is performed. Then, when the abnormality is eliminated, the real failure is not established, and the fail-safe process of an engine is finished. Then, when the ignition switch is turned off and then again turned on, sending of the failure level to a hybrid control unit is stopped, and the hybrid fail-safe process is finished. | 06-12-2014 |
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20120137666 | AN EXHAUST GAS APPARATUS OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An exhaust gas apparatus suppresses sound pressure level from increasing, and reducing its weight and production cost without need of a sub-muffler in a tail pipe and a sound deadening device having an air column resonance of a large capacity provided at the upstream opened end of the tail pipe. The exhaust gas apparatus is provided with an exhaust gas pipe, an upstream opened end connected to the sound deadening device positioned at the upstream side of an exhaust gas discharging direction, and a downstream opened end through which the exhaust gas is discharged to the atmosphere. A plate is provided at least one of the upstream opened end and the downstream opened end in opposing relationship with the exhaust gas discharging direction, and formed with an opened portion. The exhaust gas pipe is formed at its peripheral wall axially inwardly spaced apart from the plate with a through bore. | 06-07-2012 |
20120168245 | EXHAUST PIPE PART AND EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A tail pipe part includes a tail pipe to constitute part of the tail pipe, and has a hollow member connected with the tail pipe in axial alignment with the tail pipe to be positioned within an area covering a node portion in a sound pressure distribution of an air column resonance caused in the tail pipe, and a short pipe included in the hollow member and having a predetermined length to extend in the axial direction of the tail pipe, the short pipe having an open end at the upstream end thereof and a closed end at the downstream end thereof, the closed end being constituted by a bottom plate positioned at almost the same position as that of the node portion in the sound pressure distribution of a standing wave formed by the air column resonance caused in the tail pipe. | 07-05-2012 |
20120180465 | EXHAUST APPARATUS OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An exhaust gas apparatus of an internal combustion engine is capable of suppressing the sound pressure level from being increased by the air column resonance in the tail pipe. The exhaust gas apparatus being provided with an exhaust gas pipe at the downstream side of an internal combustion engine in the exhaust gas direction of an exhaust gas flow, the exhaust gas pipe having an upstream opening end at one end portion thereof and connected with a sound deadening device at the upstream side in the exhaust gas direction of the exhaust gas flow, and a downstream opening end at the other end portion thereof for exhausting the exhaust gas flow to the atmosphere. | 07-19-2012 |
20120273302 | EXHAUST APPARATUS OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An exhaust apparatus for internal combustion engines which can reduce exhaust noises, its weight and production cost with no need to provide a sub-muffler. The exhaust apparatus is provided with an inner pipe having the upstream open end and the downstream open end is disposed in the tail pipe, and the upstream open end of the inner pipe is protruded outwardly from the inside of the tail pipe to be extended into the resonance chamber, and thus the upstream open end is closed by the resonance chamber defined by the outer shell of the muffler, the end plate, and the partition plate. | 11-01-2012 |
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20150218998 | EXHAUST HEAT RECOVERY CONTROL DEVICE - An exhaust heat recovery control device includes a recovered heat adjusting unit configured to adjust an amount of heat recovered of exhaust gas by an exhaust heat recoverer recovering heat of exhaust gas and a control unit configured to control the recovered heat adjusting unit so as to prevent or suppress freezing in an exhaust pipe based on a traveling history of a vehicle on which the exhaust heat recovery control device is mounted when the freezing in the exhaust pipe is predicted. | 08-06-2015 |
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20100226694 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of image forming units as defined herein; an image carrier as defined herein; a first operation controlling unit as defined herein; a second operation controlling unit as defined herein; a density detecting sensor that detects densities of the images formed on the image carrier; a measuring unit that binarizes a density detection output of the image position deviation correction patterns formed on the image carrier, from the density detecting sensor, and that measures intervals between color patterns of the image position deviation correction patterns, based on the binarized output; and a position deviation correction controlling unit that performs a position deviation correcting control of, when the intervals measured by the measuring unit and of the color patterns in the image position deviation correction patterns are deviated from a predetermined range, correcting position deviation of the toner images formed by the image forming units. | 09-09-2010 |
20100226695 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units that form toner images in different color; an image carrier which carries the toner image of each color; a determination unit that determines, in relation to a size of image data instructed to print, whether or not a first area where a misregistration correcting image is formed at an end portion in a width direction of the image carrier is secured; a first control unit that controls the image forming unit; and a detection sensor that detects the misregistration correcting image formed on the image carrier by controlling of the first control unit; wherein the misregistration of the toner image formed by each image forming unit is corrected on a basis of a value detected by the detection sensor. | 09-09-2010 |
20100231934 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In the image forming apparatus, a color shift correction execution check unit detects positions of density correction patches of respective colors according to binary signals of density detection outputs by a density sensor on the density correction patches. When distances corresponding to intervals of time from starts of image drawing of the density correction patches of the respective colors to the detection of the positions of the density correction patches of the respective colors and distances between the density correction patches of the respective colors are shifted from a value, the color shift correction execution check unit determines color shift correction processing is required to be executed, and it gives an instruction to a color shift correction control unit to execute the color shift correction processing. And the color shift correction control unit forms a color shift correction patch to execute the color shift correction processing. | 09-16-2010 |
20100238465 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes image forming sections that forms images of different colors, respectively, a correction image formation controlling section that forms correction images of the respective colors, a density sensor that detects a density of each of the correction images in synchronization with passage of each correction image on an image carrying body, a detecting section that detects a position and the density of each of the correction images, based on a binary signal of a density detection output of each of the correction images, a density correction controlling section that corrects and controls an image density of the color, based on the detected density of each of the correction images, and a color deviation correction controlling section that corrects and controls the color deviation, based on the detected position of each of the correction images. | 09-23-2010 |
20100239279 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A prediction table is stored in an NVM and an in-apparatus temperature is measured by a temperature sensor, a registration control adjustment based on the prediction table is carried out if an absolute value of a variation in the in-apparatus temperature is smaller than a threshold, and a registration adjusting patch is formed to actually measure a positional shift amount if the absolute value of the variation in the in-apparatus temperature is equal to or greater than the threshold. When the positional shift amount measured actually is greatly different from a value of the prediction table, the value of the prediction table is modified into the actually measured value. | 09-23-2010 |
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20120121476 | ELECTRICALLY-HEATED CATALYST - An electrically-heated catalyst is disclosed. The catalyst may include a carrier; more than two comb-shaped electrode portions extending in a longitudinal direction; an electrically conductive underlying layer provided between the carrier and the comb-shaped electrode portions; and more than two electrically conductive fixing layers bonding to at least one of the comb-shaped electrode portions and to the underlying layer to fix the comb-shaped electrode portions to the carrier at more than two points spaced apart. | 05-17-2012 |
20120207649 | EXHAUST AIR PURIFICATION DEVICE - Disclosed is an exhaust air purification device, which enables heating a carrier uniformly and heating a catalyst supported on the carrier above an active temperature thereof even when an engine is run on a cold-start mode. Specifically disclosed is an exhaust air purification device, which includes a hollow case as an exterior, a cylindrical carrier housed in the case and having a catalyst supported thereon, and a pair of electrodes arranged on the outer circumferential surface of the carrier. In the device, the carrier is electrically heated through the pair of electrodes so that the catalyst is heated to an active temperature thereof. In the device, each of the pair of electrodes is placed on an arc-shaped outer circumferential segment of the carrier that has a central angle of 20 to 40 degrees, and the electrodes are opposed to each other with the phase difference of 180 degrees. | 08-16-2012 |
20130062328 | ELECTRODE, ELECTRICALLY HEATING TYPE CATALYST DEVICE USING SAME, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ELECTRICALLY HEATING TYPE CATALYST DEVICE - An electrode according to one aspect of the present invention is formed on a base material composed of a ceramics. The electrodes includes a matrix composed of an Ni-Cr alloy (with a Cr content of 20 to 60 wt. %) or an MCrAlY alloy (M is at least one material selected from Fe, Co and Ni), and a disperse phase that is dispersed in the matrix and composed of an oxide mineral having a laminated structure. The ratio of area occupied by the disperse phase in a cross section of the electrode is 40 to 80%. With the structure like this, it is possible to suppress the increase in the electrical resistance even after a thermal cycle is performed. | 03-14-2013 |
20140301908 | ELECTRICALLY HEATED CATALYST DEVICE AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD - An electrically heated catalyst device includes a catalyst support including a ceramics, on which a catalyst is supported, a pair of surface electrodes disposed on an outer surface of the catalyst support, the surface electrodes being disposed opposite to each other and extending in an axial direction of the catalyst support, and a wiring line that externally supplies electric power to the surface electrodes, in which the catalyst support is electrically heated through the surface electrodes. A wrought member made of metal is buried in the surface electrodes, the wrought member extending in the axial direction of the catalyst support. With the configuration like this, the spreading of electric currents in the catalyst-support axis direction can be maintained even when cracks occur in the catalyst-support circumference direction in the surface electrodes. | 10-09-2014 |
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20140139076 | PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - A piezoelectric element | 05-22-2014 |
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20150364548 | Handle Substrates of Composite Substrates for Semiconductors, and Composite Substrates for Semiconductors - A handle substrate of a composite substrate for a semiconductor is provided. The handle substrate is composed of polycrystalline alumina. The handle substrate includes an outer peripheral edge part with an average grain size of 20 to 55 μm and a central part with an average grain size of 10 to 50 μm. The average grain size of the outer peripheral edge part is 1.1 times or more and 3.0 times or less of that of the central part of the handle substrate. | 12-17-2015 |
20150380290 | COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A composite substrate | 12-31-2015 |
20160005643 | Handle Substrate, Composite Substrate for Semiconductor, and Semiconductor Circuit Board and Method for Manufacturing the Same - It is provided a handle substrate of a composite substrate for a semiconductor. The handle substrate is composed of a translucent polycrystalline alumina. A purity of alumina of the translucent polycrystalline alumina is 99.9% or higher, an average of a total forward light transmittance of the translucent polycrystalline alumina is 60% or higher in a wavelength range of 200 to 400 nm, and an average of a linear light transmittance of the translucent polycrystalline alumina is 15% or lower in a wavelength range of 200 to 400 nm. | 01-07-2016 |
20160007461 | Insulating Substrates Including Through Holes - It is provided an insulating substrate including through holes for conductors arranged in the insulating substrate. A thickness of the insulating substrate is 25 to 100 μm, and a diameter of the through hole is 20 to 100 μm. The insulating substrate includes a main body part and exposed regions exposed to the through holes and is composed an alumina sintered body. A relative density of the alumina sintered body is 99.5 percent or higher. The alumina sintered body has a purity of 99.9 percent or higher, and has an average grain size of 3 to 6 μm in said main body part. Alumina grains are plate-shaped in the exposed region and the plate-shaped alumina grains have an average length of 8 to 25 μm. | 01-07-2016 |
20160046528 | Handle Substrates for Composite Substrates for Semiconductors - An alumina purity of translucent polycrystalline alumina forming a handle substrate is 99.9 percent or higher, and a porosity of the polycrystalline alumina is 0.01% or more and 0.1% or less. A number of pores, each having a size of 0.5 μm or larger and included in a surface region on a side of a bonding face of the handle substrate is 0.5 times or less of a number of pores, each having a size of 0.1 μm or larger and 0.3 μm or smaller and contained in the surface region. | 02-18-2016 |
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20130155704 | VEHICLE LIGHT DISTRIBUTION CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - A vehicle light distribution control apparatus includes a camera configured to capture a scene in a forward direction of the vehicle; a lighting apparatus configured to illuminate a forward direction of the vehicle with illumination light; and a controller configured to detect an image portion in an image captured by the camera as an object estimated as another vehicle when the image portion meets a predetermined criterion, and control a light distribution of the illumination light based on a detection result, wherein if the controller detects the object estimated as another vehicle within an illumination region of the illumination light, it limits the illumination region of the illumination light such that the object estimated as another vehicle is not illuminated by the illumination light, and then if it does not detect an object estimated as another vehicle within a non-illumination region of the illumination light due to the limitation, it restricts a cancellation of the limitation of the illumination region of the illumination light until a predetermined cancellation criteria is met. | 06-20-2013 |
20140145612 | VEHICLE LIGHT DISTRIBUTION CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE LIGHT DISTRIBUTION CONTROL METHOD - A vehicle light distribution control device includes: an illumination device controlled to change a light distribution pattern among high, low and split beam patterns and of which an optical axis direction is controlled; and a control unit. When a vehicle ahead has been detected, the control unit changes the light distribution pattern to the split beam pattern, and controls a cut-off line position of the split beam pattern so as not to irradiate illumination light to the vehicle ahead. When the vehicle ahead becomes undetectable, the control unit maintains the split beam pattern while controlling the cut-off line position in such a manner that the shielded area of the split beam pattern gradually reduces. After the shielded area becomes smaller than or equal to a predetermined reference, the control unit changes the light distribution pattern from the split beam pattern to the high beam pattern. | 05-29-2014 |
20150062937 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LIGHT DISTRIBUTION OF VEHICLE HEADLIGHT - A light distribution control apparatus for the headlights of a vehicle acquires positional information of a forward vehicle from a forward position sensor detects a turn angle of the own vehicle after a time point at which the forward position sensor detects conditions ahead of the own vehicle, based on signals acquired from a behavior sensor that detects the behavior of the own vehicle corrects the positional information of the forward vehicle based on the detected turn angle, and controls the light distribution of the headlights of the own vehicle based on the corrected positional information of the forward vehicle. The light distribution control apparatus is capable of reducing tracking delays in light distribution. | 03-05-2015 |
20150149045 | VEHICLE HEADLAMP LIGHT DISTRIBUTION CONTROL APPARATUS - In a vehicle headlamp light distribution control system which changes a shaded range so as to track a position of a forward vehicle and terminates the tracking when the forward vehicle moves away from the front of a system-mounted vehicle by a tracking limit, how right and left margins of the shaded range for a tracking lag and the tracking limit is determined is arranged to realize adequate dazzle and improve the visibility to a driver of the system-mounted vehicle. It is determined whether the forward vehicle is a preceding vehicle or an oncoming vehicle. When the forward vehicle is the preceding vehicle, optical axis control margins that are right and left margins for the shaded range for the tracking lag are set to be smaller than those when the forward vehicle is the oncoming vehicle to widen the maximum shading range according to the tracking limit. | 05-28-2015 |
20150239392 | VEHICULAR HEADLAMP APPARATUS - A vehicular headlamp apparatus includes: a headlamp that illuminates ahead of a vehicle; illumination range changing means for changing an illumination range of the headlamp; detecting means for detecting a position of a forward vehicle present in front of the vehicle; controlling means for controlling the illumination range changing means based on the position of the forward vehicle detected by the detecting means; and determining means for determining whether or not the position of the forward vehicle is within the illumination range. When the position of the forward vehicle is determined as being within the illumination range, the apparatus changes the illumination range so as to have the position of the forward vehicle fall outside the illumination range. When the position of the forward vehicle is determined as being outside the illumination range, the apparatus does not change the illumination range or performs, on the illumination range changing means, a control of suppressing change of the illumination range. | 08-27-2015 |
20150251586 | VEHICULAR HEADLAMP APPARATUS - A vehicular headlamp apparatus includes: a headlamp that illuminates ahead of a vehicle; light distribution pattern switching means for switching light distribution pattern of the headlamp between a plurality of light distribution patterns which include, at least, a high beam and a low beam; detecting means for detecting a forward vehicle present in front of the vehicle; controlling means for controlling the light distribution pattern switching means based on a detection result of the detecting means; and turning radius acquiring means for acquiring a turning radius of the own vehicle during running. Moreover, when the turning radius of the own vehicle acquired by the turning radius acquiring means is less than a predetermined value, the controlling means inhibits the switching of the light distribution pattern of the headlamp to a higher side. | 09-10-2015 |