Apparatus for controlling auxiliary equipment of vehicle

• Main Authors: FUKUHARA, MASAAKI, FURUSAWA, ISAO, IIDA, FUJIO, OUCHI, KATSUO, KASUYA, HIROYUKI, HIGASHINO, JUN, OTSUBO, KATSUMI, MONJI, TATSUHIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 08.06.2005
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING ORSUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES INGENERAL; ARRANGEMENTS OR ADAPTATIONS OF HEATING, COOLING, VENTILATING,OR OTHER AIR-TREATING DEVICES SPECIALLY FOR PASSENGER OR GOODSSPACES OF VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SERVICING, CLEANING, REPAIRING, SUPPORTING, LIFTING, ORMANOEUVRING OF VEHICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

The invention relates to an apparatus for controlling operation of auxiliary equipment of a vehicle by receiving an output of a surroundings detection sensor (1) for detecting the surrounding of the vehicle and an output of the vehicle information sensor (11) for detecting operation of the vehicle, wherein the distance to and the direction of an overtaking vehicle, an oncoming vehicle, or a preceding vehicle and the light intensities of the right and the left headlamps (21-24) are controlled independently. A plurality of processes required for controlling the vehicle auxiliary equipment are performed by the time division processing.