Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle headlamp apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 车辆前照灯装置
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Application No.: US12402609Application Date: 2009-03-12
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Publication No.: US08226285B2Publication Date: 2012-07-24
- Inventor: Takuya Kotajima , Satoshi Yamamura
- Applicant: Takuya Kotajima , Satoshi Yamamura
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2008-065218 20080314
- Main IPC: B60Q3/04
- IPC: B60Q3/04

Abstract:
A vehicle headlamp apparatus is provided. The vehicle headlamp apparatus includes a low beam lamp unit which forms a low beam distribution pattern having a cutoff line along an upper edge thereof, and an additional lamp unit which forms an additional light distribution pattern including an area above the cutoff line of the low beam distribution pattern. The additional lamp unit is configured such that a luminous intensity of at least a portion of the additional light distribution pattern increases toward a horizontal line from above.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090231873A1 VEHICLE HEADLAMP APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-09-17
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