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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2009
Applicants:
Takuya Kotajima, Shizuoka, JP;
Satoshi Yamamura, Shizuoka, JP;
Inventors:
Takuya Kotajima, Shizuoka, JP;
Satoshi Yamamura, Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 3/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A vehicle headlamp apparatus is provided. The vehicle headlamp apparatus includes a low beam lamp unit which forms a low beam distribution pattern having a cutoff line along an upper edge thereof, and an additional lamp unit which forms an additional light distribution pattern including an area above the cutoff line of the low beam distribution pattern. The additional lamp unit is configured such that a luminous intensity of at least a portion of the additional light distribution pattern increases toward a horizontal line from above.