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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2014
Valeo Lighting Systems North America, Llc, Seymour, IN (US);
Robert Lee King, Seymour, IN (US);
Valeo North America, Inc., Seymour, IN (US);
Abstract
A multifunction LED headlamp that utilizes a common light source and a plurality of shutter or mask members to produce a plurality of different light beam modes of operation. The plurality of shutter or mask members are generally opaque to occlude or mask light. Each of the plurality of shutter or mask members have at least one edge and the edge of a first one or the plurality of shutter or mask members cooperates with an edge of a second one of the plurality of shutter or mask members to provide or form a generally horizontal opening whose size is varied by pivoting the plurality of shutter or mask members towards or away from each other.