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US 8,297,815 B2Granted
Vehicle lamp
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshifumi Shimodaira, Gosuke Ohashi, Nobukazu Ishikawa, Yuichi Shibata, Hiroyuki Serizawa
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Abstract
A vehicle lamp including a main lamp unit that forms a main light distribution pattern for a headlamp, and an additional lamp unit that emits blue light or mixed light including blue light to form a lane marker irradiation light distribution pattern, wherein the lane marker irradiation light distribution pattern is superimposed onto the main light distribution pattern.
Claims10
A vehicle lamp comprising:
- a main lamp unit that forms a main light distribution pattern for a headlamp;
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- an additional lamp unit that emits blue light or mixed light including blue light to form a lane marker irradiation light distribution pattern for lighting lane markers on a road surface, wherein the lane marker irradiation light distribution pattern is superimposed onto the main light distribution pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.