Patent · US Expired

Headlamp for a motor vehicle

US4860173A · kind A · utility

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5Claims

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Assignee

Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

Reiner Jocher · Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, DE
Horst Dahm · Calw, DE
Fritz Haberle

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 29, 1988
Grant date	Aug 22, 1989
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 29, 2008

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF21S41/29
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A headlamp for motor vehicles exhibits a diffuser disc which serves to mask a light exit aperture of a reflector housing and which is retained on the latter by a fastening frame and which is braced toward the depth of the reflector housing only by the reflector housing. The reflector housing yields at least in a bracing region in case of a collision and clears the path for a yielding plunging of the diffuser disc into a reflector housing cavity without the fastening frame being prejudicially deformed.

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