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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
362 61 ; 362346 ; 362304 ; 313113 ;
Abstract
A beam-forming shade for use in a vehicular headlamp comprising a cylindrical shade body disposed horizontally in surrounding relation to a bulb of the vehicular headlamp so as to interrupt some parts of light emitted from a light source and a connecting member extending downwardly from the shade body and having a single mounting hole to be attached to a reflector by a single screw. The shade of the present invention is obtained by bending a single thin metal plate which is previously cut to form a predetermined contour, which plate having a continuous developed form of the cylindrical shade body and the connecting member, thereby obtaining an integral shade.