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US 6,478,456 B1Granted
Headlamp having an impact-resistant housing assembly
AssigneeHella KG Hueck & Co.
InventorsHenning Eichhorn, Christian Huether, Dirk Kersting, Roland Lachmayer, Bernd Mennen
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Abstract
Headlamp, in particular for motor vehicles, with a headlamp housing that can be inserted into a housing receiver from the front, whereby—in the event of a defined impact in a longitudinal direction that exceeds a specific force opposite to the driving direction—the headlamp housing is displaced within the housing receiver a predetermined energy-absorption path.
Claims17
Headlamp, including a headlamp housing which can be inserted into a vehicle body opening from the front generally along a driving direction,
- wherein said headlamp includes an energy absorber for engaging the headlamp housing such that the headlamp housing (2, 40) is displacable along a predetermined energy-absorption path, along which the headlamp housing transfers energy to the energy absorber,
- wherein said headlamp further includes a housing receiver (3) in which the headlamp housing is mounted, and wherein the headlamp housing (2) has guide parts and the housing receiver (3) has guides (26) for guiding:
- the guide parts, with the guide parts being latched in the guides when the headlamp housing is in a normal position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.