ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,338, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ichikoh Industries Ltd. (Isehara, Japan).
"Vehicle lamp" was invented by Hiroya Imamura (Isehara, Japan), Yuji Ohashi (Isehara, Japan) and Eiji Suzuki (Isehara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicle lamp which forms a travel light distribution pattern in which occurrence of a dark area between low and high beam light distributions is suppressed. A projection lens is divided into a plurality of lens areas, each of which has a different focal point position, and one second lens area is a low lens area. A low beam light source module is set such reflected light from the reflec...