Patent ID: 7456560

Claim:
A vehicle headlamp having a lamp vessel, a luminous means ( 2 ) arranged therein and a lamp base, the lamp vessel ( 1 ) having a sealed end ( 11 ), which has at least one molybdenum foil seal, which comprises at least one molybdenum foil ( 112 ) and a power supply wire ( 24 ), which overlaps and is connected to said molybdenum foil and protrudes out of the sealed end ( 11 ) of the lamp vessel ( 1 ), the lamp base having a metallic base sleeve ( 3 ), in which the sealed end ( 11 ) of the lamp vessel ( 1 ) is fixed, the base sleeve ( 3 ) having at least one aperture ( 30 ), which is arranged in the region of the sealed end ( 11 ) of the lamp vessel ( 1 ), characterized in that the metallic base sleeve ( 3 ) has at least one integrally formed tab ( 32 ), which protrudes into the aperture ( 30 ) and bears against the sealed end ( 11 ) of the lamp vessel ( 1 ) in the region of overlap between the at least one molybdenum foil ( 112 ) and the power supply wire ( 24 ), and said tab ( 32 ) is constructed as a cooling plate and the free end of said tab ( 32 ) is located closer to the luminous means ( 2 ) than the end of said tab ( 32 ) which is connected to the base sleeve ( 3 ).