Motor vehicle headlight and frangible support
AssigneeValeo Vision
InventorsPhilippe Arlon, Laurence Marechal, Pascal Harand, Jean-Paul Ravier
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Abstract
The invention relates to a motor vehicle headlight, which comprises a casing enclosing a light source and fixed on a chassis, as well as frangible means of linking the casing to the chassis, which are able to absorb in the course of their rupture at least part of the energy of an impact suffered by the headlight.
Claims25
A support for linking a motor vehicle headlight to a chassis of a motor vehicle, the support comprising:
- a plurality of successive frangible elements for absorbing energy by one or more of said plurality of successive frangible elements breaking in succession during one or more impacts to the headlight when the support is supporting a motor vehicle headlight to a chassis of a motor vehicle and the headlight suffers an impact.
A motor vehicle headlight comprising:
- a casing enclosing at least one light source;
- a support for linking said casing to a chassis of a motor vehicle, said support including a plurality of successive frangible elements for absorbing energy by one or more of said plurality of successive frangible elements breaking in succession during one or more impacts to the headlight when said casing is linked to a chassis of a motor vehicle.
A motor vehicle headlight, which comprises a casing enclosing at least one light source and fixed on a chassis, which headlight comprises frangible means of linking the casing to the chassis, which are able to absorb in the course of their rupture at least part of the energy of an impact suffered by the headlight,
- wherein the linking means comprises a succession of predetermined rupture zones capable of breaking successively during an impact suffered by the headlight.
A motor vehicle headlight, which comprises a casing enclosing at least one light source and fixed on a chassis, which headlight comprises a frangible means of linking the casing to the chassis, which are able to absorb in the course of their rupture at least part of the energy of an impact suffered by the headlight, and
- wherein the linking means comprise a succession of predetermined rupture zones capable of breaking successively during an impact suffered by the headlight the casing is reinforced in the vicinity of said rupture zones and
- wherein the linking means comprise, on the one hand, a cleat mounted movably in a runner and, on the other hand, a row of stops able to be broken successively by the cleat during an impact suffered by the headlight.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.