US Patent Issued to Ichikoh Industries on Nov. 4 for "Projection device for vehicle, method of operating same, and light fixture for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,425, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ichikoh Industries Ltd. (Isehara, Japan).

"Projection device for vehicle, method of operating same, and light fixture for vehicle" was invented by Yuichiro Washi (Isehara, Japan) and Hideto Kurimoto (Isehara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses the problem that the road surface area allowed for projecting an image is limited, there is a restriction on the number of parts into which the image can be divided, and it is hard to achieve an intended visual effect even if individual images are sequentially projected. A control unit (31) controls three light sources (21a...