Leveling actuator and vehicle lamp
AssigneeStanley Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Sunaga, Junpei Inmaru
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Abstract
A leveling actuator includes a leveling shaft slidably driven in an axial direction in a state in which a tip side is connected to a lighting fixture unit via a pivot portion, a case configured to accommodate the leveling shaft therein from an opening portion on a back side and configured to cause the tip side of the leveling shaft to protrude forward from a hole portion on a front side, a cover configured to close the opening portion of the case and having a hole portion on a back side, and an aiming nut provided to face the hole portion on the back side of the cover, an aiming bolt inserted into the cover from the hole portion being located on the same axis as the leveling shaft while being screwed into the aiming nut.
Claims6
A leveling actuator configured to adjust an optical axis of light radiated from a lighting fixture unit of a vehicle lamp, in which the lighting fixture unit is disposed inside a lighting body, in front of a vehicle, the leveling actuator comprising:
- a leveling shaft slidably driven in an axial direction in a state in which a tip side is connected to the lighting fixture unit via a pivot portion;
- a case configured to accommodate the leveling shaft therein from an opening portion on a back side and configured to cause the tip side of the leveling shaft to protrude forward from a hole portion on a front side;
- a cover configured to close the opening portion of the case and having a hole portion on a back side;
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- an aiming nut provided to face the hole portion on the back side of the cover,
- wherein an aiming bolt inserted into the cover from the hole portion is located on a same axis as the leveling shaft while being screwed into the aiming nut.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.