| US 7,575,352 B2 | ||
| Vehicular headlamp | ||
| Noriko Sato, Shizuoka (Japan); Motohiro Komatsu, Shizuoka (Japan); Naoki Uchida, Shizuoka (Japan); Takuo Sugiyama, Shizuoka (Japan); and Mitsuyuki Mochizuki, Shizuoka (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 08, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/188,860. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2007-210989 (JP), filed on Aug. 13, 2007. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2009/0046474 A1, Feb. 19, 2009 | ||
| Int. Cl. F21V 33/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 362—514 [362/507; 362/508; 362/511; 362/512] | 20 Claims |
| 1. A vehicular headlamp comprising:
a light source irradiating visible light;
a lens allowing the visible light from the light source to pass through to forward of a vehicle,
wherein the light source and the lens are mounted in a rotating element; a scanning actuator for reciprocatingly rotating
the rotating element
so as to form a light distribution pattern forward of the vehicle; and
a light distribution control portion for controlling the scanning actuator such that a portion of the light distribution pattern
is relatively bright.
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