Patent ID: 7314297

Claim:
A lighting apparatus with a headlamp unit fitting in a front cowl of a vehicle, comprising: a pair of lamps arranged horizontally within said headlamp unit and having lamp housings for said lamps with each lamp housing defining a lamp chamber therein, said lamp housings including housing main bodies and lens bodies, said housing main bodies being connected with a connection wall portion; a pair of lenses, each of said lenses being provided in one of said respective lens bodies, each of said lens bodies including an outer peripheral wall portion running throughout an entire periphery thereof and extending generally rearwardly from an outer peripheral edge portion of the corresponding lens body; a lamp to lamp transverse portion disposed between said lamp housings at the outer peripheral edge portion of the lens bodies; a central space portion defined between said lamp housings and providing an outside air environment, said central space portion being formed between the connection wall portion and the lamp to lamp transverse portion in a fore aft direction and between inner side portions of the outer peripheral wall portions of the lens bodies in a lateral direction; a pair of air vent boles formed on a surface of each housing main body to face the central space portion, each of said pair of air vent holes venting between a different one of said lamp chambers and said central space portion, wherein each of said air vent holes alleviates fogging of an inner surface of said respective lens.