Blazer International

Cooper Industries, Inc.

Mark J Mayer

Charles Daniel Lemme

Steven R Rovtar

Combined auxiliary light and license plate holder

Fog lamp

Fog lamp with mounting bracket

A fog lamp reflector includes a reflector body having a reflector surface made up of a series of vertical convex flutes. Each of the flutes is made up of a plurality of segments, and each of the segments is shaped as a section of a respective paraboloid. The focuses of all of the paraboloids substantially coincide at a selected point in space, and the segments of each flute are aimed at a plurality of non-parallel directions with the left-of-center segments of each flute aimed left of the central segment and the right-of-center segments of each flute aimed right of the central segment to laterally disperse reflected light originating at the selected point in space. The focal lengths of the paraboloids increase progressively from one side to the other side of at least some of the flutes, and the paraboloids are each scaled about their respective focus to ensure that adjacent segments meet on the midline of the reflector in a substantially continuous curve.

Fluted lamp reflector

A fog lamp reflector includes a reflector body having a reflector surface made up of a series of paraboloid strips arranged side by side along a lateral direction. Each of the strips defines a respective focus, and all of the focuses coincide at a selected point in space. The strips are aimed at multiple converging directions to laterally disperse reflected light originating at the selected point, and each of the strips defines a respective focal length. The focal lengths of strips progressively farther from the center are progressively greater. The focuses are selected such that adjacent strips are matched in position and the reflector surface is substantially continuous. The reflector surface has a second derivative of lateral displacement with respect to axial displacement which is substantially continuous throughout the reflector surface to provide a visually smooth appearance.

Lamp reflector

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Bolingbrook, IL, United States of America

Mark J Mayer