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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2016
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Kawai, Shizuoka, JP;
Takahiko Honda, Shizuoka, JP;
Shinji Kagiyama, Shizuoka, JP;
Naoki Uchida, Shizuoka, JP;
Ryuho Sato, Shizuoka, JP;
Akinori Matsumoto, Shizuoka, JP;
Hiroyuki Ishida, Shizuoka, JP;
Takashi Inoue, Shizuoka, JP;
KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle lamp configured to selectively perform a low-beam irradiation and a high-beam irradiation includes a projector lens, a light emitting element disposed behind the projector lens and configured to emit light for forming a low-beam light distribution pattern, a light emitting element disposed behind the projector lens and configured to emit light for forming an additional high-beam light distribution pattern, a upward reflecting surface (shade) disposed behind the projector lens and configured to form a cutoff line of the low-beam light distribution pattern, and an optical path change portion configured to change an optical path of a part of light emitted from the light emitting element so as to travel toward a portion between the low-beam light distribution pattern and the additional high-beam light distribution pattern.