ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,851, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Lamp fitting, and vehicular headlamp" was invented by Ryujiro Ikuta (Shizuoka, Japan), Shuhei Nozue (Shizuoka, Japan), Yasutaka Katsuura (Shizuoka, Japan), Ryosuke Utsumi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kazuma Mochizuki (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular headlamp (1) serving as a lamp fitting includes: a board (40) on which a first light source (41) and a second light source (42) are mounted; a heat sink (20); and a reflector unit (50) that presses the board (40) against the heat sink (20) and reflects a part of light emitted from the first li...