A headlamp control circuit reduces a possibility that all headlamps become
lights-out in a two-lamp system headlight, even if a switching element
fails under a high-beam condition while the single switching element is
driven to light two right and left high-beam filaments. A headlamp
control circuit includes switch sections (SW1) and (SW2) for lighting
low-beam filaments (21) and (31), a switch section (SW3) for lighting
high-beam filaments (22) and (32) together, a diode (D1) for detecting an
output voltage on the switch section SW3, and a control section (120) for
turning the switch section (SW3) to an on-condition in the case where a
high-beam indication is accepted and for turning the switch sections
(SW1) and (SW2) to an on-condition in the case where a low-beam
indication is accepted and in the case where a high-beam indication is
accepted and the diode (D1) detects no high-beam lighting voltage.