Patent ID: 8851728

Claim:
A vehicle headlamp comprising: a support board; a light-emitting module supported on the support board; a control circuit section supported on the support board and configured to control a lighting of the light-emitting module; and a reflector including a reflecting face configured to reflect and collect the light emitted from the light-emitting module, wherein the control circuit section includes, on at least a part of the control circuit section, an opposing portion that is opposed to the reflecting face, and the support board is configured to support the light-emitting module and the control circuit section so that the opposing portion is disposed at a position away from an optical path of light to be collected by the reflector, wherein the light-emitting module comprises a plurality of light-emitting devices, wherein the control circuit section respectively controls the lighting of each of the plurality of light-emitting devices of the light-emitting module, wherein the vehicle headlamp further comprises a charge coupled device (CCD) camera, wherein the control circuit section obtains image data taken by the CCD camera, wherein the control circuit section analyzes the image data to judge a position of any vehicle running ahead wherein, if a vehicle running ahead is present, the control circuit section respectively controls the lighting of each of the plurality of light-emitting devices of the light-emitting module based on the position of the vehicle running ahead, and wherein the control circuit section respectively controls the lighting of each of the plurality of light-emitting devices of the light-emitting module so as to turn off the light-emitting device that forms a divided light distribution pattern containing the position of the vehicle running ahead.