Patent ID: 7484864

Claim:
A vehicle headlamp comprising: a projection lens disposed on an optical axis extending in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle; a light source disposed on a rear side of a rear focal point of the projection lens; a reflector which forwardly reflects a light emitted from the light source toward the optical axis; a shade disposed such that an upper edge of the shade is positioned in the vicinity of the optical axis near the rear focal point, wherein the shade shields a part of the light reflected by the reflector, and forms a cutoff line of a low beam light distribution pattern; a first auxiliary reflector which is disposed below the reflector, and downwardly reflects the light emitted from the light source in a forward direction; and a plurality of second auxiliary reflectors which is disposed on a front side of the first auxiliary reflector at a predetermined interval along a vertical direction, and forwardly reflects the light reflected by the first auxiliary reflector, wherein the light source is a line light source extending in a width direction of the vehicle, a sectional shape of a reflecting surface of the first auxiliary reflector taken along a vertical plane that is parallel to the optical axis is a shape of a parabola, the parabola having a focal point in the vicinity of the light source and an axis line downwardly extending in the forward direction at a predetermined downward inclination angle with respect to the optical axis, and a sectional shape of a reflecting surface of each of the second auxiliary reflectors taken along the vertical plane has a shape of a substantially straight line downwardly extending in the forward direction at a downward inclination angle which is smaller than the predetermined downward inclination angle.