Vehicle lighting apparatus and vehicle headlamp apparatus including the same
AssigneeIchikoh Industries, Ltd.
InventorsYasuhiro Okubo, Yasufumi Suzuki
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Abstract
A vehicle lighting apparatus emits a spot light distribution pattern to be combined with a low-beam light distribution pattern emitted from a headlamp. The vehicle lighting apparatus includes a semiconductor light source formed with a rectangular light emitting element; and a lens that projects light from the rectangular light emitting element under an upper horizontal cutoff line of the low-beam light distribution pattern, as the spot light distribution pattern of a substantially rectangular shape.
Claims8
A vehicle lighting apparatus that emits a spot light distribution pattern to be combined with a low-beam light distribution pattern emitted from a headlamp, the vehicle lighting apparatus comprising:
- a semiconductor light source formed with a rectangular light emitting element;
- and
- a lens that projects light from the rectangular light emitting element under an upper horizontal cutoff line of the low-beam light distribution pattern, as the spot light distribution pattern of a substantially rectangular shape.
A vehicle headlamp apparatus that independently emits a low-beam light distribution pattern and a spot light distribution pattern, the vehicle headlamp apparatus comprising:
- a headlamp that emits the low-beam light distribution pattern;
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- at least one lighting apparatus that emits the spot light distribution pattern, wherein
- the lighting apparatus includes
- a semiconductor light source formed with a rectangular light emitting element;
- and
- a lens that projects light from the rectangular light emitting element under an upper horizontal cutoff line of the low-beam light distribution pattern, as the spot light distribution pattern of a substantially rectangular shape, and
- the low-beam light distribution pattern and the spot light distribution pattern are combined.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.