Patent ID: 7188982

Claim:
A projector type vehicle headlamp comprising: a light source; a reflector including a reflection surface for reflecting light from the light source; and a condenser lens that irradiates reflected light from the reflection surface forwards, wherein the reflection surface includes a plurality of segments, and is formed of a free-form surface obtained by deforming a reference ellipsoid of revolution, wherein the reflection surface is formed into a free-form surface obtained by stretching the reference ellipsoid of revolution in one direction and pushing down the reference ellipsoid of revolution in other direction perpendicular to the one direction to deform the reference ellipsoid of revolution, the light source is arranged between a first focal point of the reference ellipsoid of revolution and the condenser lens, closer to the first focal point than to the condenser lens, and segments forming one end and other end portions of a light distribution pattern include a wide area-illuminating reflection surface that makes the one end and the other end portions substantially a rectangular shape, wherein the other end portion is opposite to the one end portion with respect to a center of the light distribution pattern.