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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2005
Takeyuki Tachiiwa, Shizuoka, JP;
Manbu Maeda, Shizuoka, JP;
Koichi Nakamura, Shizuoka, JP;
Fujio Onuki, Shizuoka, JP;
Takeyuki Tachiiwa, Shizuoka, JP;
Manbu Maeda, Shizuoka, JP;
Koichi Nakamura, Shizuoka, JP;
Fujio Onuki, Shizuoka, JP;
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicular lamp having a distance adjustment section that adjusts the distance between the lamp body and the reflector and includes an adjustment shaft, a gear member, and a receiving element. The adjustment shaft has a spherical end; the gear member includes a shaft portion that has the adjustment shaft therein, elastic pawls protruding from the shaft portion, and empty spaces defined by the elastic pawls to allow flexure of the elastic pawls toward the shaft portion; and the receiving element is formed on the back surface of the reflector. The gear member having the adjustment shaft is rotatably inserted in an insertion hole of the lamp body, the elastic pawls are engaged with the edge of the insertion hole to prevent the gear member from slipping out; and the spherical end of the adjustment shaft is engaged with the receiving element and prevented from rotating.