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Patent No.:

US 10125943 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 12, 2016

Motor vehicle and motor vehicle headlamp with a front housing

Applicant:

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg, DE;

Inventors:

Alexander Thiel, Braunschweig, DE;

Eduard Dordel, Calberlah, DE;

Assignee:

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg, DE;

Attorney:

Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Karabi Guharay

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/04 (2006.01); F21S 8/10 (2006.01); F21S 45/47 (2018.01); F21S 45/50 (2018.01); F21S 41/24 (2018.01); F21S 43/237 (2018.01); F21S 43/245 (2018.01); F21S 41/20 (2018.01); F21S 43/40 (2018.01); F21S 45/10 (2018.01); F21S 43/251 (2018.01); F21S 43/31 (2018.01); F21S 41/32 (2018.01); F21S 41/50 (2018.01); B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); B60Q 1/18 (2006.01); B62D 25/08 (2006.01); F21S 41/29 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F21S 45/47 (2018.01); B60Q 1/0035 (2013.01); B60Q 1/0041 (2013.01); B60Q 1/0047 (2013.01); B60Q 1/18 (2013.01); B62D 25/085 (2013.01); F21S 41/24 (2018.01); F21S 41/28 (2018.01); F21S 41/32 (2018.01); F21S 41/50 (2018.01); F21S 43/237 (2018.01); F21S 43/245 (2018.01); F21S 43/251 (2018.01); F21S 43/315 (2018.01); F21S 43/40 (2018.01); F21S 45/10 (2018.01); F21S 45/50 (2018.01); B60Q 2400/30 (2013.01); F21S 41/29 (2018.01);
Abstract

A motor vehicle headlamp including a housing in which at least one main light source is arranged, at least one further light-emitter, a heat sink for cooling the light-emitter, an at least partially transparent external lens that closes off the housing from the external environment of the motor vehicle headlamp and has an inner side facing the interior of the housing and an outer side facing the external environment, a front housing that is arranged in front of the outer side of the external lens. A light-guiding element is arranged in or on the front housing that at least partially fills the interior of the front housing or forms at least part of a wall of the front housing and guides light radiated inwards by the light-emitter. A motor vehicle is provided that includes a motor vehicle headlamp and a cooling grille having at least one cooling grille lamination.

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