US Patent Issued to STANLEY ELECTRIC on Jan. 27 for "Heater controller, heater control method, vehicle lamp" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,385, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Heater controller, heater control method, vehicle lamp" was invented by Masayuki Kanechika (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To avoid an adverse effect on the sensor by the heater. A controller for a heater installed in a vehicle lamp, where the controller detects a rising edge of a light emission period of a sensor light emitted from an object detection sensor built in the vehicle lamp, and starts supply of a drive voltage to the heater in accordance with the rising edge."

The patent was filed on June 14, 2022, under Application No. 17/839,504.

*For fu...