Patent ID: 7762697

Claim:
A vehicle lamp comprising: a convex lens disposed on an optical axis extending in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle; a light-emitting element disposed near a rear focal point of the convex lens; and an additional lens disposed so as to surround the convex lens, wherein the light-emitting element comprises: a light-emitting chip having a light-emitting surface; wherein light emitted from the light-emitting element passes through the convex lens to form a light-distribution pattern having cut-off lines at the upper end thereof, and wherein the light-emitting element is disposed to face a front side of the vehicle such that a lower edge of the light-emitting chip is positioned on a plane including the optical axis and one end point of the lower edge is positioned at the rear focal point, wherein the additional lens comprises: an incident surface where the light emitted from the light-emitting element enters the additional lens such that the light is refracted to be separated from the optical axis; a reflection surface where the light from the incident surface is internally reflected toward the front side; and an emitting surface where the light from the reflection surface is converted into horizontally diffused light and is emitted toward the front side, and wherein the additional lens is divided into a plurality of fan-shaped areas for each angular range where a corner point of the light-emitting chip, which is positioned at an uppermost end of an image of the light-emitting chip formed on the reflection surface by the light emitted from the light-emitting element, becomes the same corner point.