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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2018
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Takashi Matsuda, Osaka, JP;
Masahiro Kasano, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A small and thin lighting device with high efficiency and good design and a headlight for a vehicle. A lighting device includes a first lens taking light generated by a light emitting device and emitting the light, and a second lens taking an emitted light from the first lens and emitting the light, in which the second lens is an anamorphic lens in which curvatures are different in a vertical direction and a right and left direction and a center of a lens surface in the vertical direction of the second lens is positioned in an upper direction with respect to an optical axis of the first lens. A headlight for a vehicle including the plural lighting devices is forming a low beam light distribution by superimposing lights from respective lighting devices for irradiation of the center, right and left in a horizontal direction respectively.