Abstract: A vehicular headlamp for emitting light toward a predetermined emitting direction, includes: a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices approximately aligned; and an optical component, having its optical center on one of the semiconductor light emitting devices, for irradiating light emitted by the semiconductor light emitting devices toward the emitting direction.

Abstract: The invention includes a headlamp having a plurality of lighting units using light emitting diodes as light sources. A cutoff line forming unit, hot zone forming units, and a diffusion region forming unit are used as these lighting units. Consequently, a light distribution pattern for a low beam having a desirable pattern shape and light intensity distribution can be obtained as the synthetic light distribution pattern of light distribution patterns formed by the irradiation of a light from these three kinds of lighting units.

Abstract: A vehicle headlamp is constituted to have a plurality of lamp units having light-emitting diodes as light sources. At that time, three types of lamp units of different radiation modes; that is, a projector-type lamp unit, direct-projection-type lamp units, and a reflection-type lamp unit, are used as the plurality of lamp units. As a result, a low-beam light distribution pattern obtained as a merged light distribution pattern formed from the light rays output from these three types of lamp units can be readily formed in a desired pattern geometry and a desired distribution of luminous intensity.

Abstract: A vehicle headlamp is configured to have a plurality of lamp units employing light-emitting diodes as light sources. One lamp unit takes as a light source a light-emitting diode into which a single light-emitting chip is packaged. Other lamp units may take as light sources light-emitting diodes into which a plurality of light-emitting diodes are packaged. A diffusion area is formed by means of radiation of light output from the lamp units.

Abstract: A vehicular headlamp in which a light-emitting element such as an LED is used as a light source and which has a light distribution with good accuracy. The headlamp includes a semiconductor light-emitting element in the form of a semiconductor chip and an optical system including a reflector and a lens with a fluorescent body arranged around the semiconductor chip. The focal point of the optical system is located on or closely adjacent the semiconductor chip constituting the light-emitting portion of the light-emitting element in which. Dimensional errors in the outer shape of the reflector or the fluorescent body are made to be not more than 0.1 millimeters, that is, smaller than the positional error of the light-emitting portion with respect to the reflector or the lens. The dimensional accuracy of the semiconductor chip and the like are improved, and thus accuracy required for light distribution control sufficiently assured.