Patent ID: 8466633

Claim:
An illumination controlling device for a vehicle comprising: a meter to display information of the vehicle; a lighting located in a passenger compartment of the vehicle; an operation switch to be operated for turning on/off the lighting; an illumination operating portion to be operated for controlling a luminance of the meter and a luminance of the lighting stepwise; and a controlling portion to control the meter and the lighting based on operations of the operation switch and the illumination operating portion, wherein the meter is set to have a plurality of luminance phases, and the lighting is set to have a plurality of luminance phases, the number of the luminance phases being equal between the meter and the lighting, the controlling portion controls the luminance of the meter or the luminance of the lighting in accordance with the luminance phases, the controlling portion has an extinguished state controller to change the luminance phase of the meter based on the operation of the operating portion and to maintain the luminance phase of the lighting while the lighting is extinguished by the operation switch, and an illuminated state controller to change the luminance phase of the meter based on the operation of the operating portion and to change the luminance phase of the lighting to correspond to the luminance phase of the meter if the operating portion is operated in a state that the luminance phase is different between the meter and the lighting while the lighting is illuminated by the operation switch.