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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 1997
Filed:
May. 15, 1996
Karl-Otto Dobler, Reutlingen, DE;
Jan Fischer, Tubingen, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
An illumination device for a vehicle comprises at least one reflector, at least one light source, a housing part at least partially surrounding the reflector and the light source and having a front side provided with a light outlet opening, a light permeable cover member closing the light outlet opening, the housing part being mountable on a front part of the vehicle, the housing part being frame-shaped and having a rear side which faces away from the cover member and being open, the housing part having a rear edge insertable into a cup-shaped depression of the vehicle part, an elastically deformable sealing element provided between an outer periphery of the housing part and an inner periphery of the depression and being elastically deformable in a direction transverse to the insertion direction of the housing part, so that the cover member, the housing part and the depression limit a closed inner chamber accommodating the reflector and the light source.