Valeo Vision

Stephane Paugam

Jean-Marc Colombel

Julien Cesaire

Guillaume Altermatt

Jean-Denis Tissier

Gilles Nodet

Jocelyn Prechais

Benoit Milaret

Carlos Bedoya

Remi Blot

A lighting device for a motor vehicle, the lighting device including: a housing; a light module arranged inside the housing; a control device designed to control the electrical supply to the light module, including a female connector mounted outside the housing; a connection harness connected to the light module and including a male connector designed to be connected to the female connector of the control device so as to connect the control device electrically to the light module, characterized in that the housing includes: an orifice for the passage of the connection harness from the inside to the outside of the housing; and at least two ribs defining a receiver to receive and lock the male connector in position on the housing.

Lighting device for a motor vehicle

The invention relates to a method for assembling a first and a second part of a lighting device for a vehicle by mirror welding, including a step of supplying the parts wherein each part comprises, in the interface area thereof for contact with the other part, a weld bead intended to come into contact against the weld bead of the other part during the mirror welding, the weld bead of at least one of the parts is provided with a plurality of expander ribs (N) spread out along the weld bead, in such a way as to locally expand the width of the weld bead.

Two-part assembly of a lighting device by mirror welding via expander ribs

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Angers, France

Stephane Paugam