ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,234, issued on June 10, was assigned to Ichikoh Industries Ltd. (Isehara, Japan).
"Lamp unit and vehicle lighting tool" was invented by Yasuhiro Okubo (Isehara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a lamp unit that can form an irradiation pattern on a road surface almost without tilting an inclination of a lamp unit axis with respect to the road surface, and a vehicle lighting tool using the lamp unit. A lamp unit includes: a light source; a condenser lens that condenses light from the light source; a light-shielding member (shade) provided with an irradiation slit through which the light condensed by the condensing lens...