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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bernard Luciani, Paris, FR;
Assignee:
Cibie Projecteurs, Bobigny, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
362 61 ; 362299 ; 362 80 ;
Abstract
A motor vehicle foglight of the type comprising: a lamp having a transverse horizontal filament (10); a reflector (20) whose axis (Ox) passes in the same vertical plane as the center of the filament (F.sub.O); and a closure glass (30). According to the invention the surface of the reflector is a surface without discontinuity forming images of the filament in which all the points of the images are situated below a horizontal cutoff and in a horizontal strip of substantially constant height situated beneath said cutoff. The invention is applicable to foglights which do not include a masking cup.