Patent ID: 6971777
Filing Date: 2005-12-06
Classification: B60Q

Abstract:
1. A lamp unit for a motor vehicle, of the type including at least one housing at least open at the front and in which is mounted a lighting module, notably a reflector, of which a rear face is fixed in the housing by means of at least one pivot element incorporating a substantially horizontal rod oriented axially, supported by the housing, of which one end incorporates a spherical head housed in a counterpart seating of a capsule which is integral with the lighting module, such that the pivot element forms a ball joint composed of the spherical head and the seating, enabling the lighting module to pivot in relation to the housing at least around the ball joint, wherein it includes at least one retaining enclosure which is traversed by at least part of the rod, which is carried by a wall of the housing, and in which a seating receives the capsule supported vertically substantially aligned with the ball joint, so that the weight of the lighting module bears on the housing and thereby avoids having the lighting module overhanging the ball joint, and a sidewall of the enclosure has two flanges which are received in a slideway carried by the associated wall of the housing.