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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2001
Hitoshi Taniuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Teruo Koike, Tokyo, JP;
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There has been a problem that in a head lamp with a prior constitution, an utilization factor of luminous flux with respect to a light source is low and the head lamp with brightness commensurate with power consumption can be obtained. According to the invention, it can be realized a head lamp for a vehicle wherein a first elliptic system reflecting surface having an optical axis in the illuminating direction of the head lamp and arranging a primary focus on the light source and a second elliptic system reflecting surface arranging the primary focus on the same light source and intersecting the optical axis at approximately right angle to the optical axis of the first elliptic system reflecting surface are provided, the projection lens , corresponding to the secondary focus of the first elliptic system reflecting surface and the shield plate , as required are provided, and a parabolic system reflecting surface approximately taking the secondary focus as a focus, corresponding to the secondary focus of the second elliptic system reflecting surface and the shield plate and taking the optical axis as the approximately illuminating direction is provided], whereby the light shielded by the shield plate and the light from the light source which can not reach the reflecting surface and heretofore, has been invalid to form the light-distribution characteristic can be recovered, and the utilization factor of luminous flux to the light source can be improved, thereby to be solve the problems.