Patent ID: 7264387

Claim:
An automotive headlamp assembly for use in a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle defining vertical, cross-car and lengthwise axes, oriented perpendicular to one another, wherein the cross-car axis is oriented along a width of the vehicle and the lengthwise axis is oriented along a length of the vehicle, comprising: a housing including an exterior cover lens and at least one mirror, the housing defining a housing axis extending between the exterior lens and the mirror and being oriented along the length wise axis of the vehicle; a projector module including a halogen or HID light source, a reflector, and a condenser lens co-axially arranged along a projector axis defined between the light source and the condenser lens; wherein the projector is coupled to the housing and a projector axis angle substantially greater than zero degrees is defined between the projector axis and the housing axis, whereby light from the light source is focused by the condenser lens onto the mirror, the mirror being configured to reflect the light through the exterior lens along the housing axis.