Vehicle head lamp
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsKiyotaka Mochizuki, Naoki Tatara, Norihiko Kobayashi
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Abstract
Each of a pair of left and right vehicle head lamps includes a plurality of optical units in a lamp chamber. A variable light distribution type optical unit that changes a light distribution mode of a high beam depending on a surrounding state and a traveling state of a vehicle is disposed in a first vehicle head lamp on a passenger seat side, and a figure drawing optical unit capable of forming a desired figure on a road surface in front of the vehicle by emitted light is disposed at a position symmetrical to the variable light distribution type optical unit in a second vehicle head lamp on a driver seat side.
Claims10
A pair of left and right vehicle head lamps each including a plurality of optical units in a lamp chamber, wherein
- a first variable light distribution type optical unit that changes a light distribution mode of a high beam depending on a surrounding state and a traveling state of a vehicle is disposed in a first vehicle head lamp on a passenger seat side,
- a figure drawing optical unit capable of forming a desired figure on a road surface in front of the vehicle by emitted light is disposed at a position symmetrical to the first variable light distribution type optical unit in a second vehicle head lamp on a driver seat side,
- a second variable light distribution type optical unit that changes the light distribution mode of the high beam depending on the surrounding state and the traveling state of the vehicle is disposed in the second vehicle head lamp on the driver seat side, and
- a third variable light distribution type optical unit that changes light distribution mode of the high beam depending on the surrounding state and the traveling state of the vehicle is disposed at a position symmetrical to the second variable light distribution type optical unit in the first vehicle head lamp on the passenger seat side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.