Patent ID: 6997590

Claim:
Lighting headlamp for a motor vehicle, comprising: a light source; a convergent lens; an elliptical reflector, a first focus of the reflector is arranged in the vicinity of the light source and a second focus of the reflector is arranged in the vicinity of the focal plane of the convergent lens; a fixed mounting having a first face, and second face opposite the first face; a movable mask pivotably mounted, with respect to the fixed mounting, about an overall transverse axis, the movable mask pivotable between an angular occultation position, in which it is arranged substantially vertically in the vicinity of the focal plane of the lens forming a cutoff in the light beam produced by the headlamp, and a retracted angular position; a spring forcing the movable mask into its occultation position; and at least one locking means acting between the mounting and the mask, for holding the mask in the occultation position.