Patent ID: 8376599

Claim:
A light module for a headlight of a motor vehicle, the light module comprising at least one light source for emitting light beams and at least one primary optical unit for concentrating the emitted light beams, the light module-being designed for generating a screened light distribution on a roadway in front of the vehicle with a substantially horizontal bright-dark boundary wherein the light module is embodied as a projection module and has a diaphragm arrangement in the beam path of the light beams concentrated by the primary optical unit, and at least one secondary optical unit for imaging the light beams that have traveled past the diaphragm arrangement onto the roadway in front of the motor vehicle in order to generate the screened light distribution, and wherein there is formed in the diaphragm arrangement at least one opening and/or cutout to which is assigned an optically active element, which, during the generation of the screened light distribution, deflects or attenuates at least a portion of the light beams passing through the opening and/or cutout and deflects light beams impinging on the diaphragm arrangement in the region of the opening and/or cutout in such a way that the deflected light beams, after passing through the secondary optical unit, illuminate a predetermined region of the light distribution above the bright-dark boundary.