Patent ID: 6409369
Filing Date: 2002-06-25
Classification: F21S

Abstract:
A headlight for a motor vehicle for traveling on a road defining an axis of the road, the travel of the vehicle being generally in a direction along the axis of the road, wherein the headlight comprises a light source which cooperates with an optical means to produce a fixed beam which is generally spread widthwise with a specific cut-off and adapted for selective enhancement of a dipped passing beam produced by another headlight and to produce a fog penetrating beam, said fixed beam has at least two regions which are bounded by at least two sections of a top cut-off line which are disposed at different heights, a first region of the fixed beam is situated in line with the axis of the road, and is bound by at least a first section of the cut-off line, and a second region of the fixed beam is situated laterally with respect to the first region and is bounded by a second section of the cut-off line which is at a higher level than said first section of the cut-off line.