Patent ID: 6919820

Claim:
A vehicle headlamp system with headlamps, each of which contains a lamp unit within a lamp body for emitting beams forward with a predetermined luminous intensity distribution, comprising; vehicle-to-vehicle distance measuring means for measuring the vehicle-to-vehicle distance between a first vehicle and a second preceding vehicle, and variable luminous intensity control means for varying said luminous intensity distribution according to said vehicle-to-vehicle distance when the speed of the first vehicle exceeds a predetermined value, wherein headlamps are provided on the left and right sides of a vehicle, thus forming a pair of headlamps and wherein said vehicle-to-vehicle distance measuring means is contained in the lamp body of a first of the headlamps, and wherein a second of the headlamps includes an auxiliary lamp in a position that corresponds to the position of the vehicle-to-vehicle distance measuring means in the lamp body of the first headlamp.