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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 05, 2013
Applicant:

Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Takayuki Yagi, Shizuoka, JP;

Satoshi Yamamura, Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21S 41/00 (2018.01); F21S 41/25 (2018.01); F21S 41/143 (2018.01); F21S 41/43 (2018.01); F21S 41/64 (2018.01); F21S 41/675 (2018.01); F21S 41/365 (2018.01); F21S 41/135 (2018.01); F21S 41/20 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F21S 41/25 (2018.01); F21S 41/135 (2018.01); F21S 41/143 (2018.01); F21S 41/285 (2018.01); F21S 41/365 (2018.01); F21S 41/43 (2018.01); F21S 41/645 (2018.01); F21S 41/675 (2018.01);
Abstract

A vehicular lamp includes a projection lens, a two-dimensional image forming device located on or in the vicinity of a rear focal point of the projection lens, and including a plurality optical elements which are arranged in a matrix shape and individually driven and a projection plane that is formed by the plurality optical elements, a light source configured to irradiate the projection plane of the two-dimensional image forming device with light, and a dimming part provided between the optical elements and the projection lens and configured to reduce light directed to the projection lens from the optical elements arranged on an end portion of the projection plane.


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