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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1991
Hideharu Mochizuki, Shizuoka, JP;
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automobile headlamp which indicates the inclination of the tilting member of the headlamp (the reflector in a movable-reflector type headlamp and the lamp body and reflector unit in a movable-unit type headlamp) in relation to the base member (the lamp body in a movable-reflector type headlamp and the lamp housing in a movable-unit type headlamp) in terms of a change on the scale on an inclination measuring device installed between an aiming screw and the base member. The inclination measuring device includes a guide member supported on the base member and extending approximately in parallel with a protruding portion of the rightward-leftward direction aiming screw. A sliding member is threadedly engaged with the protruding portion of aiming screw such that the sliding member slides relative to the guide member as the aiming screw is rotated. A linear scale formed on the guide member indicating an amount of relative displacement between the guide member and a reference mark on the sliding member. If desired, a similar inclination measuring device can be provided on the upward-downward direction aiming screw to indicate the amount of inclination of the tilting member in the upward-downward direction.