Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle lamp
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Application No.: US15178766Application Date: 2016-06-10
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Publication No.: US09964278B2Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Inventor: Masakazu Matsumoto , Takayuki Suzuki
- Applicant: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab
- Priority: JP2015-127086 20150624
- Main IPC: F21V1/00
- IPC: F21V1/00 ; F21S8/10 ; B60Q1/30 ; F21V7/04

Abstract:
A reflecting surface of a reflector has a structure where a plurality of reflecting elements are arranged in rows in an up-and-down direction, and the reflecting elements are arranged as a plurality of sets in a left-and-right direction. The surface of each reflecting element is composed of a curved surface having a horizontal section curvature larger than a vertical section curvature. Thus, a horizontally long light distribution pattern may be easily formed by light reflecting from each reflecting element. Each reflecting element is connected to each of four reflecting elements which are adjacent thereto in the left-and-right direction and are shifted therefrom in the up-and-down direction, through a boundary line extending from a vertical plane in an inclined direction in the left-and-right direction. Thus, the horizontally long light distribution pattern formed by the light reflecting from each reflecting element becomes a bright light distribution pattern having four chipped corners.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160377253A1 VEHICLE LAMP Public/Granted day:2016-12-29
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