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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1995
Toshio Tanaka, Shizuoka, JP;
Takaaki Nishizawa, Shizuoka, JP;
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicular headlamp including a lamp body, a lens formed of resin which covers a front opening of the lamp body, a reflector disposed in a lamp chamber defined by the lamp body and the lens, an electric bulb supported by the reflector, and a substantially cylindrical shade formed of metal and surrounding the bulb for shielding light emitted from the bulb and directing a part of the light toward a part of the reflector other than an effective reflection region thereof. The lens is inclined with respect to the optical axis of the headlamp. The shade has a cut-out portion for transmitting light emitted from the bulb through a side part thereof, and the shade is provided with an inclined portion at a front end portion thereof shaped so as to correspond to the shape of the inclined lens surface.