EP2719941B1 - Fahrzeugscheinwerfer mit einer Projektionslinse - Google Patents

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EP2719941B1
EP2719941B1 EP13188294.6A EP13188294A EP2719941B1 EP 2719941 B1 EP2719941 B1 EP 2719941B1 EP 13188294 A EP13188294 A EP 13188294A EP 2719941 B1 EP2719941 B1 EP 2719941B1
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Hidetada Tanaka
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
    • F21S41/00—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps
    • F21S41/60—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps characterised by a variable light distribution
    • F21S41/65—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps characterised by a variable light distribution by acting on light sources
    • F21S41/663—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps characterised by a variable light distribution by acting on light sources by switching light sources
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
    • F21S41/00—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps
    • F21S41/10—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps characterised by the light source
    • F21S41/14—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps characterised by the light source characterised by the type of light source
    • F21S41/141—Light emitting diodes [LED]
    • F21S41/143—Light emitting diodes [LED] the main emission direction of the LED being parallel to the optical axis of the illuminating device
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
    • F21S41/00—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps
    • F21S41/10—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps characterised by the light source
    • F21S41/14—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps characterised by the light source characterised by the type of light source
    • F21S41/141—Light emitting diodes [LED]
    • F21S41/151—Light emitting diodes [LED] arranged in one or more lines
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
    • F21S41/00—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps
    • F21S41/20—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps characterised by refractors, transparent cover plates, light guides or filters
    • F21S41/25—Projection lenses
    • F21S41/255—Lenses with a front view of circular or truncated circular outline
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
    • F21S41/00—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps
    • F21S41/30—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps characterised by reflectors
    • F21S41/32—Optical layout thereof
    • F21S41/321—Optical layout thereof the reflector being a surface of revolution or a planar surface, e.g. truncated
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO THE FORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT EMITTED
    • F21Y2103/00—Elongate light sources, e.g. fluorescent tubes
    • F21Y2103/10—Elongate light sources, e.g. fluorescent tubes comprising a linear array of point-like light-generating elements
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO THE FORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT EMITTED
    • F21Y2115/00—Light-generating elements of semiconductor light sources
    • F21Y2115/10—Light-emitting diodes [LED]

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  • the present invention relates to a vehicular headlamp. More specifically, the present invention relates to a vehicular headlamp to generate a projection light as a so-called high beam (upward/long distance beam), and is applied to a technical field for realizing a good light distribution pattern by a surface shape of a projection lens.
  • a vehicular headlamp to generate a projection light as a so-called high beam (upward/long distance beam), and is applied to a technical field for realizing a good light distribution pattern by a surface shape of a projection lens.
  • a vehicular headlamp there is known a headlamp in which, as a light source, a semiconductor light emitting element such as an LED (Light Emitting Diode), for example, is disposed at an interior of a lamp outer housing formed by a cover and a lamp body (for example, see above No. 2007-213877 ).
  • a semiconductor light emitting element such as an LED (Light Emitting Diode)
  • LED Light Emitting Diode
  • the vehicular headlamp there is known a headlamp employing an array structure in which a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements is arranged in a horizontal direction (a left-right direction).
  • Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 are explanatory views for explaining a schematic configuration of a vehicular headlamp that includes, as a light source, the semiconductor light emitting elements of the array structure.
  • Fig. 8 is a schematic sectional view of the vehicular headlamp and
  • Fig. 9 is a front view of a light emitting body that is formed by arranging a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements in an array form.
  • an arrow "V" represents a vertical direction (an up-down direction)
  • an arrow "H” represents a horizontal direction (a left-right direction).
  • the light emitted from a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements 100 is projected to the vehicle front through a projection lens 101.
  • a sectional view in a vertical direction is shown in Fig. 8
  • the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements 100 are arranged to have an array form in a horizontal direction, as shown in Fig. 9 .
  • a conventional projection lens configured to output a parallel light based on the light emitted from a light source has been used as the projection lens 101.
  • Fig. 10 illustrates a light distribution pattern to be realized by the conventional (ordinary) projection lens 101.
  • an arrow "V" represents a vertical direction and an arrow "H” represents a horizontal direction.
  • the vehicular headlamp causes more light to be distributed to an upper side of a predetermined horizontal reference line Hr shown in Fig. 10 .
  • light distribution is substantially uniformly allocated to an upper and lower portion of the horizontal reference line Hr in a case where the conventional (ordinary) projection lens 101 to output a parallel light is used. Accordingly, some means for realizing the high beam is required in a case where the projection lens 101 is used.
  • Fig. 11 is a sectional view showing a schematic configuration of the vehicular headlamp
  • Fig. 12 is a front view of a light emitting body in which the reflectors 102 are individually provided to each of the semiconductor light emitting elements 100 arranged in an array form.
  • the reflectors 102 are formed at a front side of a light emitting surface of the semiconductor light emitting elements 100 in such a way that reflective surfaces thereof to reflect the light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting elements 100 in each direction of the upper and lower are respectively provided.
  • the reflectors 102 By providing the reflectors 102 in such a way, the light that is emitted from the semiconductor light emitting elements 100 and reflected by the reflective surfaces of the reflectors 102 as well as the direct light from the semiconductor light emitting elements 100 is incident on the projection lens 101. In other words, it is possible to give a change in the light distribution pattern by the reflected light from the reflectors 102.
  • the light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting elements 100 in an oblique direction as indicated by an arrow in Fig. 12 is reflected by the reflectors 102 and therefore the diffusion of light in the horizontal direction H occurs.
  • a problem occurs that it is difficult to shield a desired region properly, in a case where a headlamp system is configured to have a function to shield a portion of light in the horizontal direction H by on/off control of the semiconductor light emitting elements 100, especially.
  • a light shielding function can be used in applications for selectively shielding a region corresponding to a location in which an object is present, for example, when the object such as a human is detected in the front of a vehicle.
  • Fig. 13 shows a specific example of the relationship between a light distribution pattern and a light shielding region by a conventional headlamp.
  • an arrow "V” represents a vertical direction and an arrow “H” represents a horizontal direction. Also in Fig. 13 , a horizontal reference line “Hr" is shown.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicular headlamp which can prevent the reflection to a light shielding region while allowing the generation of a projection light as a so-called high beam.
  • a vehicular headlamp according to the invention is defined in claim 1.
  • a vehicular headlamp comprises a semiconductor light emitting element, and a projection lens having an irradiation surface, configured to project light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting clement to the outside from the irradiation surface.
  • Both an upper portion and lower portion of the irradiation surface of the projection lens serve as a control surface configured to emit the light emitted from a focal point upwards relative to a parallel light.
  • the present invention it is possible to generate a projection light as a high beam by the surface shape of the projection lens. Accordingly, it is not necessary to provide the reflectors as in the prior art for realizing the high beam and, as a result, it is possible to achieve the prevention of the reflection to the light shielding region.
  • the vehicular headlamp includes a semiconductor light emitting element as a light source and a projection lens for projecting the light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting element to the outside from an irradiation surface thereof. Further, both an upper portion and lower portion of the irradiation surface of the projection lens serve as a control surface that emits the light emitted from a focal point upwards relative to a parallel light. Accordingly, it is possible to realize a good vehicular headlamp aiming to prevent the reflection to a light shielding region while allowing the generation of a projection light as a high beam.
  • curvature of the upper portion and lower portion of the irradiation surface are set so that the upper portion and lower portion of the irradiation surface emit the light emitted from the focal point upwards relative to the parallel light. According to this configuration, it is possible to realize a good vehicular headlamp aiming to prevent the reflection to a light shielding region while allowing the generation of a projection light as a high beam, by a relatively simple method of adjusting the curvature of the irradiation surface of the projection lens.
  • surface shapes of the upper potion and the lower portion are set so that the light emitted through the lower portion has an angle to the parallel light larger than that of the light emitted through the upper portion.
  • the light emitted through the lower portion is more suitable as a high beam since the light is directed more upwards.
  • the curvature of the upper portion of the irradiation surface becomes smaller toward an outer periphery. Therefore, it is possible to achieve the prevention of the situation where a short wavelength light such as a blue light, in particular, falls on a road side and therefore the light distribution pattern characteristics as a high beam are deteriorated.
  • the curvature of the lower portion of the irradiation surface becomes larger toward an outer periphery.
  • the light on the lower side is more suitable as a high beam since the light can be largely bent.
  • Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 are explanatory views showing a configuration of a vehicular headlamp 1 according to an embodiment.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic vertical sectional view of the vehicular headlamp 1
  • Fig. 2 is a schematic front view of the vehicular headlamp 1.
  • an interior of a lamp outer housing 4 configured by a lamp body 2 and a cover 3 attached to a front end of the lamp body 2 is formed as a lamp chamber 5 and a light emitting part including a projection lens 12 and a light emitting body 6 is formed in the lamp chamber 5 (see Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 ).
  • the vehicular headlamp 1 of the present embodiment is a high-beam (upward/long distance beam) headlamp for irradiating a long distance.
  • the light emitting part is configured in such a way that each required part is attached to a bracket 7 disposed in the lamp chamber 5.
  • the bracket 7 is formed of a metal material having a high thermal conductivity and supported portions 7a, 7a, 7a are provided on both upper and lower end portions thereof.
  • a radiation member (radiation fin) 8 is attached to a rear surface of the bracket 7.
  • a fan 9 for heat dissipation is attached to a rear surface of the radiation member 8.
  • the light emitting body 6 is attached to a central portion of a front surface of the bracket 7.
  • the light emitting body 6 includes a base plate 16 attached to the front surface of the bracket 7 and semiconductor light emitting elements 15, 15, ⁇ mounted to a front surface of the base plate 16 in a state of being spaced apart from each other in a left-right direction (see Fig. 1 ).
  • the semiconductor light emitting elements 15, 15, ⁇ serve as a light source.
  • the semiconductor light emitting element 15 includes a semiconductor layer located at a rear side thereof and a phosphor layer laminated on a front surface of the semiconductor layer.
  • LEDs Light Emitting Diode
  • the color of light emitted from the light emitting body 6 is a white color.
  • a reflector is not provided with respect to the base plate 16. That is, the light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting element 15 is incident on the projection lens 12 (to be described later) without going through the reflection of the reflector.
  • a lens holder 11 is attached to the front surface of the bracket 7 (see Fig. 1 ).
  • the lens holder 11 has a substantially cylindrical shape that is penetrated in a longitudinal direction and is attached to the bracket 7 so as to cover the light emitting body 6.
  • the projection lens 12 is attached to a front end of the lens holder 11.
  • the projection lens 12 has a substantially semi-spherical shape that is convex forward and projects forward the light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting elements 15, 15,
  • the bracket 7 is coupled in such a way that aiming screws 10, 10, 10 are respectively screwed to the supported portions 7a, 7a, 7a of the bracket 7.
  • the bracket 7 is tiltably supported to the lamp body 2 through the aiming screws 10, 10, 10.
  • the bracket 7 is tilted in a vertical direction or a lateral direction while using, as a supporting point, the supported portions 7a, 7a other than the supported portion screwed by the aiming screw 10 that is rotated, so that adjustment (aiming adjustment) of an optical axis is performed.
  • extensions (blindfold material) 13, 14 are provided in the lamp chamber 5.
  • Each of these extensions 13, 14 is provided so as to cover mechanism parts regarding the above-described aiming adjustment, e.g., parts that are undesirable when being visible from the outside of the cover 3.
  • a leveling actuator (not shown) may be provided and the bracket 7 may be tilted in a vertical direction by the driving of the leveling actuator, so that a leveling adjustment for adjusting the direction of an optical axis according to the weight of on-vehicle objects may be carried out.
  • driving current is supplied separately to each of the semiconductor light emitting elements 15, 15, ⁇ from a lighting circuit.
  • the semiconductor light emitting elements 15, 15, ⁇ supplied with the driving current are turned on and the semiconductor light emitting elements 15, 15, ⁇ not supplied with the driving current remain turned off.
  • a control for changing the current value of the driving current to be supplied from the lighting circuit can be separately carried out to each of the semiconductor light emitting elements 15, 15, ⁇ .
  • the vehicular headlamp 1 of the present embodiment as described above serves as a high-beam headlamp.
  • Fig. 3 schematically shows an example of a light distribution pattern TH for a high beam.
  • the light distribution pattern TH is formed by synthesizing distributions T1, T2, ⁇ of light emitted from each of the semiconductor light emitting elements 15, 15, ⁇ .
  • the light distributions T1, T2, ⁇ are overlapped with each other in the horizontal direction (a left-right direction) H.
  • a left-right width thereof is the smallest at a central portion in the horizontal direction H and the left-right width is gradually increased outwards in the horizontal direction H.
  • a vertical width thereof is the largest at a central portion in the horizontal direction H and the vertical width is gradually decreased outwards in the horizontal direction H.
  • the light distribution pattern TH for the high beam is such that more light distribution is made to an upper side of a predetermined horizontal reference line Hr indicated by a dashed line in Fig. 3 .
  • a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements 15 corresponding to a plurality of predetermined light distributions T out of the light distributions T1, T2, ⁇ in Fig. 3 are turned off.
  • the semiconductor light emitting elements 15 respectively corresponding to the light distributions T4 and T3 are turned off.
  • the conventional vehicular headlamp is configured such that the high beam is realized by the action of the reflectors (reflector 102) provided on a front side of a light source.
  • the reflectors reflector 102
  • the reflection to the light shielding region is caused and therefore a problem occurs that it is difficult to realize an adequate light shielding.
  • the realization of the high beam is achieved by the action of the projection lens 12.
  • both the upper portion and lower portion of the irradiation surface of the projection lens 12 serve as a control surface that emits the light emitted from a focal point upwards relative to the parallel light, thereby realizing the high beam.
  • Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view schematically showing a lens curved surface of the projection lens 12 of the present embodiment.
  • Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 to Fig. 7 it is assumed that the upper direction and lower direction in the vertical direction V respectively correspond with the upper direction and lower direction of the paper.
  • a vertical cross-sectional shape of the irradiation surface of the projection lens 12 in the present embodiment is represented by a solid line and a vertical cross-sectional shape of the irradiation surface of an ordinary projection lens is represented by a broken line.
  • the ordinary projection lens means a projection lens that is designed to emit the light emitted from a focal point as a parallel light.
  • Fig. 4 also shows an optical axis P of the light that is emitted from the semiconductor light emitting elements 15 and incident on the projection lens 12.
  • the irradiation surface of the projection lens 12 of the present embodiment is configured such that the curvature of an upper portion thereof is smaller than that of the ordinary lens curved surface and the curvature of a lower portion thereof is larger than that of the ordinary lens curved surface.
  • Fig. 5 is a schematic view for explaining an action by the projection lens 12 where the shape of the irradiation surface is set as described above.
  • each of the light that is emitted from the light emitting part 6 and passes through the upper portion of the irradiation surface of the projection lens 12 and the light that is emitted from the light emitting part 6 and passes through the lower portion of the irradiation surface can be emitted upwards together, by setting the shape of the irradiation surface as shown in Fig. 4 . Thereby, it is possible to realize the high beam.
  • Fig. 6 is a view showing a light distribution pattern by the projection lens 12. Meanwhile, Fig. 6 shows a light distribution pattern when some predetermined regions in the horizontal direction H are shielded by the above-described light shielding function.
  • a light distribution pattern as a high beam is realized by setting the upper portion and lower portion of the irradiation surface as the control surface as described above. That is, upon realization of the high beam, the conventional reflectors 102 are not necessary. From this fact, according to the projection lens 12 of the present embodiment, it is possible to effectively suppress the diffusion in the horizontal direction H of light by the reflector 102 and therefore it is possible to effectively suppress the occurrence of reflection to the light shielding region, as indicated by an arrow "X" in Fig. 6 .
  • the surface shape of the projection lens 12 of the present embodiment is set so that the light emitted through the lower portion of the irradiation surface has an angle to the parallel light larger than that of the light emitted through the upper portion thereof.
  • a convex lens such as the projection lens 12 of the present embodiment
  • an emission angle difference between the light of the respective colors becomes large by the influence of chromatic aberration, especially at an outer peripheral portion of the lens.
  • a short wavelength light such as a blue light, in particular, is emitted while being largely bent at an outer peripheral portion of the lens, as compared to a long wavelength light.
  • the vehicular headlamp 1 When the vehicular headlamp 1 is used to emit the high beam, it is desirable that the light passing through the lower portion of the projection lens 12 is largely bent. The reason is that the light on the lower side is emitted more upwardly when the light is largely bent at the lower portion of the projection lens 12.
  • the curvature of the upper portion of the irradiation surface becomes smaller toward an outer periphery. Therefore, it is possible to achieve the prevention of the situation where a short wavelength light such as a blue light, in particular, passing through near the uppermost portion of the irradiation surface falls on a road side and therefore the light distribution pattern characteristics as a high beam are deteriorated.
  • the curvature of the lower portion of the irradiation surface becomes larger toward an outer periphery.
  • the light on the lower side is more suitable as a high beam since the light can be more largely bent.
  • Fig. 7 is a view for explaining a specific lens design of the projection lens 12 of the present embodiment, as described above.
  • central light the light at the central portion having the range from the light directed upward by 14° relative to the optical axis P to the light directed downward by 15° relative to the optical axis P is emitted as a parallel light from the irradiation surface.
  • the surface shape of the portion above the portion from which the central light is emitted has curvature smaller than that of the ordinary lens curved surface and the surface shape of the portion below the portion from which the central light is emitted has curvature larger than that of the ordinary lens curved surface.
  • the portion of the irradiation surface above the portion from which the central light is emitted corresponds to "the upper portion” used herein and, similarly, the portion of the irradiation surface below the portion from which the central light is emitted corresponds to "the lower portion” used herein.
  • the projection lens 12 of this case is designed so that the light passing through "the upper portion” of the irradiation surface is emitted to 5.16° upward relative to the parallel light and the light passing through "the lower portion” of the irradiation surface is emitted to 3.06° upward relative to the parallel light.
  • the curvatures of "the upper portion” and “the lower portion” of the irradiation surface thereof are respectively set so that such emission angles are obtained.
  • the vehicular headlamp 1 includes the semiconductor light emitting elements 15 as a light source and the projection lens 12 for projecting the light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting elements 15 to the outside from an irradiation surface thereof. Further, both the upper portion and lower portion of the irradiation surface of the projection lens 12 serve as a control surface that emits the light emitted from a focal point upwards relative to a parallel light.
  • a projection light as a high beam can be generated by the surface shape of the projection lens 12, it is not necessary to provide the reflectors 102 as in the prior art for realizing the high beam and, as a result, it is possible to achieve the prevention of the reflection to the light shielding region. In this way, it is possible to realize a good vehicular headlamp 1 aiming to prevent the reflection to a light shielding region while allowing the generation of a projection light as a high beam.
  • the upper portion and lower portion of the projection lens 12 emit the light emitted from the focal point upwards relative to the parallel light by setting the curvature thereof.
  • the surface shapes of the upper potion and the lower portion are set so that the light emitted through the lower portion of the irradiation surface has an angle to the parallel light larger than that of the light emitted through the upper portion thereof. In this way, the light emitted through the lower portion is more suitable as a high beam since the light is directed more upwards.
  • the curvature of the upper portion of the irradiation surface becomes smaller toward an outer periphery.
  • the curvature of the lower portion of the irradiation surface becomes larger toward an outer periphery.
  • the light on the lower side is more suitable as a high beam since the light can be largely bent.
  • an array of a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements 15, 15, ⁇ arranged in a row is used as a light source.
  • one semiconductor light emitting element 15 may be used.

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  1. Fernlicht-Fahrzeugscheinwerfer (1), der umfasst:
    ein Halbleiter-Lichtemissionselement (15); und
    eine Projektions-Linse (12) mit einer Strahlungs-Fläche, die so eingerichtet ist, dass sie von dem Halbleiter-Lichtemissionselement (15) emittiertes Licht von der Strahlungs-Fläche nach außen projiziert,
    wobei die Strahlungs-Fläche einen oberen Abschnitt, einen mittleren Abschnitt und einen unteren Abschnitt hat,
    Licht, das von einem Brennpunkt (F) des mittleren Abschnitts emittiert wird und auf die Projektions-Linse (12) auftrifft, als paralleles Licht von dem mittleren Abschnitt der Strahlungs-Fläche emittiert wird, und
    eine Krümmung des unteren Abschnitts der Strahlungs-Fläche der Projektions-Linse (12) so eingestellt ist, dass der untere Abschnitt der Strahlungs-Fläche das von dem Brennpunkt (F) emittierte Licht relativ zu dem parallelen Licht nach oben emittiert,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    eine Krümmung des oberen Abschnitts der Strahlungs-Fläche der Projektions-Linse (12) so eingestellt ist, dass der obere Abschnitt der Strahlungs-Fläche das von dem Brennpunkt (F) emittierte Licht relativ zu dem parallelen Licht nach oben emittiert,
  2. Fahrzeugscheinwerfer nach Anspruch 1, wobei Oberflächenformen des oberen Abschnitts und des unteren Abschnitts so festgelegt sind, dass das über den unteren Abschnitt emittierte Licht einen Winkel zu dem Parallellicht hat, der größer ist als der des über den oberen Abschnitt emittierten Lichts.
  3. Fahrzeugscheinwerfer nach Anspruch 2, wobei die Krümmung des oberen Abschnitts der Strahlungs-Fläche zu einem Außenumfang hin abnimmt.
  4. Fahrzeugscheinwerfer nach Anspruch 2 oder 3, wobei die Krümmung des unteren Abschnitts der Strahlungs-Fläche zu einem Außenumfang hin zunimmt.
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