Patent ID: 6379030
Filing Date: 2002-04-30
Classification: B60Q,F21S

Abstract:
A lamp assembly comprising:a lamp housing supported on a motor vehicle body in a lamp port thereof for universal articulation to aim the lamp assembly, a flexible seal around the lamp housing including an outer lip bearing against a peripheral edge of the lamp port and an inner lip bearing flush against an outside surface of the lamp housing and an integral convex web exposed in a clearance gap between the lamp housing and a peripheral edge of the lamp port resiliently urging relative separation between the inner and the outer lips, a guide means operable to guide an adjustable fraction of the inner lip of the flexible seal in translation parallel to the outside surface of the lamp housing through a range of positions varying the exposure of the convex web of the flexible seal in the clearance gap, a retaining means operable to prevent relative separation between the inner lip of the flexible seal and the lamp housing perpendicular to the outside surface of the lamp housing, and a latch means operable to retain the adjustable fraction of the inner lip of the flexible seal in a position relative to the lamp housing of maximum exposure of the convex web in the clearance gap during aiming of the lamp assembly and in an adjusted position relative to the lamp housing after aiming of the lamp assembly characterized by substantially uniform exposure of the convex web in the clearance gap.