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US 6,578,995 B2Granted
Vehicular headlamp and vehicle provided with same
AssigneeIchikoh Industries, Ltd.
InventorYasufumi Suzuki
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Abstract
A lower reflector (3), disposed in a opening (23) of an upper reflector (2) to reflect conventionally unused light, is rotatable relative to the upper reflector (2), thereby changing a dispersed light-distribution pattern (WP) with respect to a fixed reference light-distribution pattern (LP), with an improvement in visibility when the vehicle negotiates a curve.
Claims5
A vehicular headlamp comprising:
- a reflector comprising a first reflective surface, and a shade region provided with a second reflective surface movable relative to the first reflective surface;
- and
- a light-source bulb disposed an a light axis of the first reflective surface, wherein
- the reflector is divided into two parts to be an upper reflector intersecting a reference plane including the light axis and a vehicle-transversely level line, and a lower reflector positioned below the reference plane, with a line region interposed between the upper reflector and the lower reflector, wherein
- the upper reflector is configured to have the first reflective surface and the shade region, light from the light-source bulb reflected therefrom being provided to the vehicle as a reference light-distribution pattern for low beam defined with a out line formed by the line region, and
- the lower reflector is configured to have the second reflective surface, light from the light-source bulb reflected therefrom being provided as a dispersed light-distribution pattern for low beam relative to the reference light-distribution pattern, the lower reflector being rotatable about a vertical axis vehicle to a focus of one of the first and second reflective surfaces and rotatable relative to a bracket fixed to the upper reflector.
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A vehicular headlamp comprising:
- a reflector comprising a first reflective surface, and a shade region provided with a second reflective surface movable relative to the first reflective surface;
- and
- a light-source bulb disposed on a light axis of the first reflective surface, wherein
- the second reflective surface has a substantially parabolic shape and extends in substantially the same parabolic plane as the first reflective surface when the second reflective surface is at a neutral position, wherein
- the reflector is divided into two parts to be an upper reflector intersecting a reference plane including the light axis and a vehicle-transversely level line, and a lower reflector positioned below the reference plane, with a line region interposed between the upper reflector and the lower reflector, wherein
- the upper reflector is configured to have the first reflective surface and the shade region, light from the light-source bulb reflected therefrom being provided to the vehicle as a reference light-distribution pattern for low beam defined with a cut line formed by the line region, and
- the lower reflector is configured to have the second reflective surface, light from the light-source bulb reflected therefrom being provided as a dispersed light-distribution pattern for low beam relative to the reference light-distribution pattern, the lower reflector being rotatable about a vertical axis vehicle to a focus of one of the first and second reflective surfaces.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.