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Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020

Filed:

May. 15, 2019
Applicant:

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yasuo Toko, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21S 41/25 (2018.01); F21S 41/32 (2018.01); G02F 1/1335 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F21S 41/25 (2018.01); F21S 41/32 (2018.01); G02F 1/133526 (2013.01);
Abstract

To provide a lighting apparatus etc. that is capable of obtaining various light distribution patterns and is superior in light utilization efficiency. The lighting apparatus includes a light source, a light conversion part for converting the light emitted from the light source into nearly parallel beams, a light modulating part having a plurality of pixel regions arranged so that the nearly parallel beams can be incident and capable of switching between a light transmitting state and a light scattering state for each of the pixel regions, and a projection lens disposed on the light path of the nearly parallel beams and on the light emitting side of the light modulating part and where the projection lens projects an image formed by the light modulating part using the nearly parallel beams.


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