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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 22, 1989
Kimio Kumagai, Hadano, JP;
Ichikoh Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a slant type headlamp unit for motor vehicles, the reflector has an inner reflecting surface a reflecting area taking the form of a part of a paraboloid of revolution and a light-diverging reflecting area which diverges in the horizontal plane, and a reflects in the vertical plane the rays of light incident from a lamp bulb in directions substantially parallel with the optical axis. The center of the filament of the lamp bulb is disposed nearly parallelly with the optical axis of the reflector and as spaced slightly frontwardly from the focus of the paraboloid of revolution. A front lens is disposed as slanted with respect to said optical axis, covering the front opening of said reflector and having provided on the inner surface by a plurality of prism areas which refract the rays of light emitted from said lamp bulb and reflected at said reflector, thereby forming horizontally elongated illumination patterns and slant illumination patterns frontwardly.