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US 7,478,933 B2Granted
Vehicle lamp
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsKeiichi Tajima, Yuji Sugiyama
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Abstract
A vehicle lamp is provided with: a lamp unit 10 supported horizontally rotationally movably within a lamp housing; a shade movable in a predetermined direction so as to change a shielded quantity of light emitted from a light source; a horizontally driving device for horizontally rotationally moving the lamp unit; and a shade driving device for moving the shade in the predetermined direction. The shade driving device is provided with a driving shaft to be coupled with the shade. The lamp unit is rotationally moved by the horizontally driving device around the driving shaft.
Claims10
A vehicle lamp comprising:
- a lamp unit supported in a lamp housing and rotationally movable in a horizontal direction, the lamp unit having a light source;
- a shade movable so as to change a shielded quantity of light emitted from the light source;
- a horizontally driving device for rotationally actuating the lamp unit in the horizontal direction;
- a shade driving device for actuating the shade;
- and
- a driving shaft provided on the shade driving device and coupled with the shade,
- wherein the lamp unit is rotationally moved by the horizontally driving device around the driving shaft, and
- wherein the driving shaft extends along a rotational center of the lamp unit.
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