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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2000
Michael Hamm, Pfullingen, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The headlight arrangement for a vehicle produces respective light beams with different characteristics and includes at least two headlight units ( ), each having a number of individual headlights ( ), by means of which the respective light beams are produced and operated simultaneously and/or in different combinations. The headlight unit ( ) has at least one base headlight ( ) by which a light beam with low beam characteristics is produced. In a basic or initial configuration the base headlights of two headlight units on opposite sides of the vehicle have substantially parallel optic axes ( ) and their light beams are superimposed. The base headlights ( ) may be pivoted in opposite directions from each other from their initial configuration about vertically extending axes ( ) so that their optic axes ( ) diverge or converge. The light beams produced by the base headlights ( ) are no longer superimposed to the same extent so that lower intensities are provided in a central region in front of the vehicle but the illumination extends over a greater horizontal breadth in front of the vehicle when their light beams diverge. This is especially advantageous in city traffic and at low vehicle speeds.