Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenichi Takeda

Shigeru Kodaira

Toru Hasegawa

Tetsuya Suzuki

Mutsumi Katayama

Hajime Tabata

A head lamp device includes a structure in which a discharge lamp has a discharge bulb and a reflector of a substantially hemispheric shape arranged in an upper part of a housing. A filament including a filament bulb and a reflector of a substantially hemispheric shape is arranged in a lower part of the housing. The front opening of the lamp housing is covered by a front lens. The discharge bulb can generate two to three times as much luminous flux as a conventional filament bulb. As a result, it is possible to reduce the size of the discharge bulb as compared to the filament bulb. This makes it possible to reduce the overall size of the head lamp device.

Head lamp device for a vehicle

Head lamp device for an automobile

A headlamp cleaner for a motorcycle includes a frame enclosing a headlamp lens. A cleaning nozzle is attached to an upper half of the frame. The nozzle ejects a cleaning agent downwardly over the lens against wind blowing upward during running of the motorcycle. Therefore, it is possible to minimize an amount of the cleaning agent scattered by the wind. Further, vehicle state detecting units are connected to a controller for the headlamp cleaner. No cleaning agent will be ejected, when the vehicle is detected to be in a condition, or state, where the cleaning agent is likely to disperse. The controller, in combination with the downwardly directed nozzle, is thus unlikely to disperse cleaning fluid toward a windscreen or rider of the motorcycle.

Headlamp cleaner

To shorten a high voltage line connecting a lighting circuit and an electric discharge lamp, and to achieve weight reduction of a stay, in a head lamp of a motorcycle. A stay 26L is attached to a flange 24L, a head lamp 27 is attached to a front end of the stay 26L, and a lighting circuit box 30 is arranged substantially between the head lamp 27 and the flange 24L. The lighting circuit box is arranged on the front side of the head pipe of the motorcycle. Therefore, the lighting circuit box can be located near the head lamp. As a result, the lighting circuit is arranged at a position as near as possible to both the body of the motorcycle and the lamp body, the high voltage line is shortened, and countermeasures against insulation or high frequency hazards can be taken easily and inexpensively.

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Saitama, Japan

Kenichi Takeda