Patent ID: 6485168
Filing Date: 2002-11-26
Classification: B60Q,F21S,G01M

Abstract:
A headlight device for a vehicle, comprising at least two headlights each emitting a screened light beam with an upper bright-dark limit which on one counter traffic side and on a traffic side has a different portions, wherein a portion of each of the bright-dark limits of the light beams emitted by said headlights on the counter traffic side is arranged deeper in a vertical direction with respect to the vehicle than a portion on the traffic side, and the portion on the traffic side extends so as to ascend starting from the portion on the counter traffic side at least over a part of an extension of the portion on the traffic side, said headlights being formed so that light bundles are emitted with different bright-dark limits, wherein at least one first headlight emits a first light bundle with a bright-dark limit with the portion which on the traffic side is located higher in a vertical direction with respect to the vehicle than the portion of the bright-dark limit at the traffic side of a second light bundle emitted by at least one second headlight, and wherein a direction of the second light bundle is changeable so that a portion of the bright-dark limit of said second light bundle is changed at least in a vertical direction.