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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2021
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yuta Maruyama, Shizuoka, JP;
KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle headlamp () includes a lamp fitting (), and a control unit (CO) configured to, when a signal indicating detection of a preceding vehicle () is input, control the lamp fitting () such that a total luminous flux amount of light emitted to a first region () and a second region (), and widths (Wand W) in the first region () and the second region () change according to a position of the preceding vehicle () with respect to a vehicle (), in which the first region () overlaps a whole of a visual recognition unit of the preceding vehicle (), and edges (R andL) of the second region () on both sides in the left-right direction are located on a preceding vehicle () side with respect to edges (R andL) of the first region () on both sides in the left-right direction.