Koito Manufacturing

Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacturing and marketing of automotive lighting equipment, aircraft parts, and electrical equipment. Its products include automotive lighting and accessories such as light-emitting diode (LED), discharge, and halogen headlamps, fog lamps, side turn signal lamps, and LED rear combination lamps; aircraft lighting and equipment that includes interior and exterior lights, caution warning panels, electrical equipment, and hydraulic equipment; and ship lights and special products including LED marine lamps and destination indicators. It operates through the following geographical segments: Japan, North America, China, Asia, Europe, and Other Regions. The company was founded by Genrokuro Koito on April 1, 1915 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Koito's lamp systems offer lighting suitable for every driving condition, making nighttime driving safe and relaxing. Energy-efficient and long-lasting LEDs are utilized as the light sources in the latest headlamps, rear combination lamps and other automotive lamps. KOITO's unique optics control system and optimized lighting system realized LED headlamps with world-leading brightness and power-saving performance. LED headlamps are widely adopted to hybrid and electric vehicles and also to mini vehicles and motorcycles.

Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB) is a headlamp system that ensures wide visibility for drivers by enabling to drive with high-beams all the time while avoiding glaring to oncoming vehicles or vehicles ahead. ADB's installed camera recognizes vehicles driving ahead, working together with various sensors, and achieves fully automatic light distribution control.

Koito has released the world's first BladeScan® ADB. BladeScan® ADB is a headlamp system which emits LED light to fast revolving blade mirrors and lights forward vision by using the residual image effect. By turning on/off 12 LEDs in line with the rotation of blade mirrors, BladeScan® ADB ensures high-resolution light distribution equivalent to the use of 300 LEDs and minimizes shading area. The system helps driver to early detect crossing pedestrians, thus contributes to reduce traffic accidents.

Koito has succeeded in developing and mass-producing the world's first headlamp unit called “LED Compact Series”, which provides a selection among lighting function among bi-functional headlamp (a LED unit switching high-beam and low-beam with a single LED), AFS (Adaptive Front Lighting System) headlamp, and ADB (Adaptive Driving Beam) headlamp. As it features small size, light weight, and high usability, it is widely used in wide variety of vehicles; from luxury vehicles to mini vehicles.

LED headlamp is also widely adopted for motorcycles, which is obliged to light up even in the daytime. As KOITO's LED headlamp offers higher power efficiency, longer life, and better space-saving, it supports safer and more comfortable ride with its optimum lighting technology.