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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1992
Filed:
May. 15, 1991
Hiroyuki Makita, Shimizu, JP;
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An aimable vehicular headlamp system has a discharge lamp assembly mounted within a lamp housing via aiming screws. The discharge lamp assembly comprises a paraboloidal reflector, a discharge lamp bulb, and a bulb carrier subassembly electrically coupled to the discharge lamp bulb and mechanically supporting the same in position with respect to the reflector. Also included is a lighting circuit assembly comprising a ballast section for providing a high alternating voltage, and an igniter section electrically connected between the ballast section and the bulb carrier subassembly of the discharge lamp assembly for causing the lamp bulb to glow by an electric discharge. At leeast the igniter section of the lighting circuit is mounted to the lamp housing, with the igniter section electrically connected to the bulb carrier subassembly via flexible conductors of minimal lengths thoroughly disposed within the lamp housing.