Patent ID: 7153009

Claim:
A projector-type vehicular headlamp for emitting light via a lens toward a predetermined emitting direction, comprising: a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices that are substantially aligned by aligning their one sides at an end thereof with a predetermined straight line; and an optical component, having a focus on said predetermined straight line, operable to irradiate light emitted by said plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices toward said emitting direction, wherein said vehicular headlamp emits said light ahead of an automobile, said plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices are aligned in an substantially left-right direction of the automobile by aligning said sides with said straight line that extends in said substantially left-right direction of the automobile, and said optical component forms at least a part of a cut line that defines a boundary between a bright region and a dark region in a light distribution pattern of said vehicular headlamp based on said light emitted by said semiconductor light emitting devices from portions near said sides aligned with said straight line.