Patent ID: 6736524
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: B60Q,F21S,F21V,F21Y

Abstract:
A motor vehicle headlight which is designed to produce at least one regulatory principal lighting beam with cutoff, of the dipped headlight type, comprising, arranged from rear to front substantially along a longitudinal optical axis, a reflector of the elliptical type, a principal light source which is arranged in the vicinity of a first focus of the reflector, a shield which comprises a cutoff edge arranged in the vicinity of a second focus of the reflector, so as to form the cutoff in the principal lighting beam produced by the headlight, and a principal convergent lens, a focal plane of which passes close to the second focus of the reflector, a secondary light source being arranged between the shield and the principal lens,the headlight further comprising an optical distribution element which is arranged in front of the shield, so as to distribute the light rays emitted by the secondary source on the input surface of the principal lens, with a view to producing a secondary lighting beam, the secondary source being arranged outside the path of the light rays coming from the principal source and directed towards the input surface of the principal lens.