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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2017
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Uchida, Shizuoka, JP;
Noriko Sato, Shizuoka, JP;
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a vehicular headlamp including an excitation light source, a phosphor excited by the excitation light source, a projection lens, and a scanning mechanism configured to receive light generated by an excitation light source array on a reflective surface of a reflector and scan the light toward the phosphor. The excitation light source is formed as the excitation light source array having a plurality of light emitting portions. Between the excitation light source array and the scanning mechanism, a lens array having a plurality of light condensing portions is provided. The plurality of light condensing portions are arranged to respectively face the plurality of light emitting portions, and configured to condense lights emitted from respective light emitting portions on the reflective surface, respectively, and arrange respective optical images of reflected lights on the phosphor.