Patent ID: 6250790
Filing Date: 2001-06-26
Classification: F21S

Abstract:
A motor vehicle headlight including a lamp defining a lamp axis, a reflector defining an optical axis of the reflector, and means carried by the reflector for mounting the lamp in the reflector with the said lamp axis at right angles to the said optical axis, the lamp having mounting means for engagement in a plane at right angles to the lamp axis, the reflector being of plastics material injection moulded in a mould and stripped from the said mould in a direction corresponding to that of the said optical axis, the reflector comprising a base portion and at least one further portion adjacent to the said base portion, wherein the said further portion includes a lamp hole formed directly therein and a reflector wall surrounding the lamp hole and having an external surface, the said external surface defining a rake angle with respect to the said direction corresponding to the optical axis, and wherein the headlight further includes, between the said surface and the said mounting means of the lamp, adapter means defining seating surfaces in a plane parallel to the said optical axis, for engagement of the said mounting means of the lamp on said seating surfaces.