Patent ID: 8616741

Claim:
A vehicle headlamp, comprising: (i) a semiconductor-type light source for emitting light; (ii) a reflector made of a parabola-based curved face, having a plurality of reflecting surfaces which are divided along the vertical-axis direction, for reflecting light radiated in a vertical-axis direction from a light emitting face of the semiconductor-type light source, as reflection light, so as to illuminate the reflected light toward a forward direction of a vehicle, wherein: the plurality of reflecting surfaces of the reflector includes a predetermined reflecting surface provided in a range in which a reflection image of the semiconductor-type light source is obtained within a longitudinal angle of Â±40 degrees from a center in a vertical-axis direction of the light emitting face of the semiconductor-type light source and in a range of high energy in energy distribution of the semiconductor-type light source, the predetermined reflecting surface of the reflector includes a first reflecting surface and a second reflecting surface adjacent to each other at a center of the reflector; the first reflecting surface is a reflecting surface on which a reflection image group of the semiconductor-type light source according to the first reflecting surface is formed near the oblique cutoff line and the horizontal cutoff line in comparison with the refection image group of the semiconductor-type light source according to the second reflecting surface, and density of the reflection image group of the semiconductor-type light source according to the first reflecting surface is higher than density of the reflection image group of the semiconductor-type light source according to the second reflecting surface; and the second reflecting surface has a light distribution range of the reflection image of the semiconductor-type light source including a light distribution range of the reflection image of the semiconductor-type light source according to the first reflecting surface so that the reflection image group of the semiconductor-type light source according to the second reflecting surface contains the reflection image group of the semiconductor-type light source according to the first reflecting surface.