ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,899, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Ichikoh Industries Ltd. (Isehara, Japan).
"Lamp unit for vehicular headlamp, and vehicular headlamp" was invented by Hiroya Imamura (Isehara, Japan) and Kazunori Iwasaki (Isehara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a lamp unit for a vehicular headlamp and a vehicular headlamp, by which it is possible to diffuse left and right ends of a high-beam light distribution pattern further to the left and right. An inner reflecting surface reflects light from a first light-emitting element as reflected light onto a lens. The lens emits the reflected lig...