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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2006
Kunihiko Fukui, Saitama, JP;
Masahiro Inoue, Saitama, JP;
Masaki Yamazaki, Saitama, JP;
Yukinori Kawaguchi, Saitama, JP;
Kunihiko Fukui, Saitama, JP;
Masahiro Inoue, Saitama, JP;
Masaki Yamazaki, Saitama, JP;
Yukinori Kawaguchi, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A dimmer switch takes the form of a rotary switch including a stationary portion fixed to a vehicle and an operable rotary portion, and is constructed such that switching between a high beam position and a low beam position is made by a rotational operation in opposite directions at a same position in an axial direction of the rotary portion. In addition, the rotary portion is slideable in the axial direction, and a rotational operation to switch from the low beam position to the off position can not be made without the axial sliding movement of the rotary portion. Hence, switching from one of the high beam, low beam, and off positions to another can be made by a same rotational operation, while an erroneous operation to switch to the off state when a switching from high beam to low beam is prevented.