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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:
Jul. 11, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1998
Manabu Maeda, Shizuoka, JP;
Naruhiro Michiba, Shizuoka, JP;
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle lamp arrangement for mounting to a vehicle body, the lamp arrangement having an irradiation angle adjusting mechanism, including a vehicle mounting bracket mounted to the vehicle body and having a shielding portion; a lamp body portion for housing the lamp; and an adjusting shaft having a first portion completely covered by the vehicle mounting bracket and a second portion for connecting to the lamp body portion, the adjusting shaft being configured within the lamp arrangement to adjust a distance between the vehicle body and the shielding portion when the adjusting shaft is rotated such that the vehicle lamp is inclined with respect to the vehicle body, wherein upon connection of the second portion of the adjusting shaft to the lamp body portion, the second portion of the adjusting shaft is also shielded such that the rotating operation of the adjusting shaft is disabled. Adjustment of the irradiation angle is disabled at least after the irradiation angle adjusting mechanism has been assembled to the vehicle.
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