Vehicular lamp
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazuhito Iwaki, Hitoshi Takeda, Masayasu Ito
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Abstract
A vehicular lamp used in a vehicle, includes: alight source for emitting light in accordance with power given thereto; a lamp body for accommodating the light source and protecting the light source from water; a first resistor provided in the outside of the lamp body and connected in series with the light source; and a current limiting circuit, provided in the inside of the lamp body, for preventing an excess current supplied to the light source in a case where dump surge occurs in a supplied voltage or current to be supplied to the light source.
Claims9
A vehicular lamp used in a vehicle, comprising:
- a light source operable to emit light in accordance with power given thereto;
- a lamp body operable to accommodate said light source and protect said light source from water;
- a first resistor provided in an outside of said lamp body and connected in series with said light source;
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- a current limiting circuit, provided in an inside of said lamp body, operable to prevent an excess current supplied to said light source in a case where dump surge occurs in a supplied voltage or current to be supplied to said light source.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.