Light projecting device and vehicular headlamp
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKoji TAKAHASHI, Shigetoshi ITO, Yoshiyuki TAKAHIRA
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Abstract
A light projecting device of the present invention includes: a light source unit including (i) a laser element for emitting light, (ii) a light converging lens for converging the light emitted from the laser element, and (iii) a light emitting section for emitting light upon receipt of the light converged by the light converging lens; and a reflector for projecting light emitted from the light source unit. The light source unit is provided so as to be attached to or detached from a fixed part to which the light source unit is to be fixed.
Claims13
A light projecting device, comprising:
- a light source unit including (i) a plurality of laser elements which emit respective laser beams whose wavelengths are different from each other and (ii) a light converging section for converging the laser beams emitted from the laser elements, wherein the laser beams conversed by the light converging section are emitted from a specific part of the light source unit;
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- a light projecting section for projecting the laser beams emitted from the light source unit,
- the light source unit being attached to a main body of the light projecting device to which the light projecting section is fixed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.