Abstract: A mount for a headlight reflector includes three pivot-point mechanisms, at least one of which comprises a spherical head at an end of a pivot-mechanism pin mounted in an elongated socket formed on a receiver rigidly attached to the reflector. The axis of elongation of the pivot-mechanism pin is approximately parallel to an optical axis of the headlight and an axis of elongation of the socket is perpendicular thereto, with one end of the socket being open to allow ingress and egress of the spherical head. A side of an elongated shell forming the socket has a slit therein facing a back wall of a headlight housing through which the pivot-mechanism pin passes. In one embodiment of the invention, an outer end of the pivot-mechanism pin is coupled to an adjusting bolt which is parallel to the pivot-mechanism pin by means of a moveable bridge.

Abstract: A pane washing appartus for a motor vehicle comprises a pressure source to drive a cleaning fluid which in turn activates a valve and a jet nozzle associated with a jet-nozzle carrier which is movable from a pulled-back rest position to an operational, deployed position. The valve is first opened once the jet-nozzle carrier has moved the jet nozzle to the deployed position. The valve includes a cap which loosely covers a passage opening in the jet-nozzle carrier leading to the jet nozzle but which follows movement of the jet-nozzle carrier until its peripheral area contacts a fixed stop thereby uncovering the passage opening immediately before the jet nozzle reaches its deployed position. The cap is pressed against the jet-nozzle carrier by cleaning fluid pressure, a spring or a permanent magnet.

Abstract: A reflector for a dimmed or dimmable motor vehicle headlight is divided into an asymmetrical wedge-shaped sector, an upper sector, and a lower sector which are stepped axially from on another. The reflection surface is thereby formed such that a desirable light distribution is achieved without a correcting lens in horizontal and vertical areas perpendicular to a middle axis of the headlight. The desired light distribution of the asymmetrical wedge-shape sector is such that a corresponding point of every reflected light-filament image of each arbitrary point of the asymmetrical wedge-shaped reflection surface is positioned immediately near a prescribed borderline, such as a legislatively mandated borderline.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting a bulb in a reflector opening of a headlight includes tongues which are cut-out and bent-out of a portion of the reflector from which an opening is formed through which a bulb to be mounted thereat is inserted. These tongues engage notches in an edge of a base flange of the bulb in a radial direction to prevent rotation thereof. A holding spring which spans over the flange of the bulb base lies under tension against the flange and urges it against an opening frame of the reflector. The holding spring is attached to the reflector at cut outs in edges of the mounting tongues on opposite sides of the opening. Spring tongues from a middle portion of the holding spring impinge on the bulb base flange.

Abstract: A coupling apparatus for a speed regulator, or governor, of a typed used on motor vehicles for example, comprises a hollow connecting stud which is affixed to a governor positioning drive at a driven end telescoped to a hollow adjustment piece at a driving end. The hollow adjustment piece has a cap with an opening therein. A coupling rod passes through the opening having a driven end enlargement directed toward the governor positioning drive and a connecting apparatus at the other end connected to a speed adjusting apparatus. The coupling rod slides through the cap opening but the driven end enlargement is larger than that portion of the opening through which the coupling rod extends and can, therefore, not slide therein.

Abstract: A projection-type vehicle headlight includes a sheet metal support (11) which provides a light shield (3) between a convex lens (2) and a reflector (1). The support is rigid and has arms (12) which are fastened to the ellipsoid-formed reflector. The arms are appended to a lens frame (13), which receives the lens, of the support. The light shield is in the form of a spherical bulge which extends, or is convex, toward a light source (5), the bulge being produced by "drawing out" areas of the support lying within the lens frame. A light shield edge (6) is formed by "blanking out" an opening in a top half of the spherically shaped bulge.

Abstract: A light bulb is mountable from a rear side of a bowl shaped headlight reflector by extending the light bulb through an opening in an apex of the reflector and rotating it less than 180 degrees. Radially protruding tongues of a plate shaped socket of the light bulb slide under a ring formed element during the mounting. The ring formed element is constructed of spring wire having a polygonal shape. The number of angles of the polygonal-shaped wire is the same as the number of tongues of the socket. The polygonal-shaped wire engages the reflector at its corners, or angles, and the middle of each side thereof is biased to tightly engage a tongue of the socket.

Abstract: The opening in the bowl-shaped plastic reflector is surrounded by a collar. Inserted into the collar is an incandescent lamp with a flange that surrounds its base and rests against the face of the collar. The lamp is secured to the reflector with a wire spring that is bent along the optical axis into the shape of a U at the rear of the reflector. The two legs of the spring are tensioned against opposite sides of the collar. The free ends of the legs rotate in a mount. Another mount is positioned on the other side of the collar and has a projection that extends out more or less radially in relation to the optical axis of the reflector and creates an undercut. The web that connects the legs automatically snaps into the undercut. The web has a lever in the form of a bent-in eye that rotates when forced down along the optical axis around a section of the second mount that parallels the web of the spring.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle lamp with several light bulbs. The light bulbs are electrically connected by cables with a multiplug connector disposed at the casing of the lamp. The multiple plug connector comprises contact parts produced from sheet metal strips and provided at the center region with an attachment means. The contact parts are formed as flat plugs at one end section while the contact parts are provided at the other end section in each case with a protruding bent off flag. The clamping jaws of a cutter clamping device generated by a slot are set in the flag. The slot runs in the direction of the longitudinal extension of the contact parts. The contact parts are inserted with the flat plugs in slot-shaped openings and are sequentially disposed in a plane with their wide extension at a distance from each other. The neighboring contact parts in a row are rotated by 180 degrees relative to each other about the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: Mounting for an electric light with bayonet socket. The mounting for an electric light bulb bayonet socket is stamped from a sheet metal plate or from a sheet metal band. An opening is stamped into the sheet metal plate corresponding to about the diameter of the light bulb socket in order to allow insertion of the light bulb. The guide flaps for the light bulb socket are cut from a region of the sheet metal plate which is outside of the opening for the passage of the light bulb socket. The guide flap is bend around two axes vertical to each other such that the end sections after an arcuate shaped deformation form part of a circular cylinder shaped jack.

Abstract: A headlight for a motor vehicle in which an interior space is enclosed by a housing and a cover lens. The interior space communicates with the surrounding outside atmospheric air through a duct that has an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The duct contains reversably-acting hygroscopic desiccating substance which provides less resistance to flow of air into and out of the interior space, than any other leakage points in the headlight. The duct has a portion projecting into the interior space, and has a substantially high permeability for water molecules in a mixture of water-vapor and air. This portion of the duct resists air flow in establishing pressure equilibrium between the inlet opening and the outlet opening of the duct, so that at least a larger part of air in the duct passes through the inlet and outlet openings. One of these openings is in the interior space, whereas the other opening is located in the atmosphere.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a headlight for vehicles with an interior space enclosed by the reflector and the front cover lens or by the housing and the front cover lens, containing air which is in communication with the atmospheric air surrounding the headlight through the inlet and outlet openings of a duct which is formed by a tube, fabricated from substantially air-impermeable material, projecting from the outside into the interior of the headlight. A reversibly-acting hygroscopic desiccating agent is filled into the duct which provides only a slight resistance to the flow of air into, or out of, the interior of the headlight. The desiccating agent contained in the duct has such an area of contact with the moist air within the headlight that it will absorb enough of the moisture from the air within the headlight, even during the periods of time when the motor vehicle is standing idle, so that condensation of water within the headlight, due to falling temperature, will be avoided.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with a headlight for automobiles the interior cavity of which is ventilated with a tube filled with a desiccative. The tube is guided into an opening at the rear of the reflector and is fixed into place by means of a screw lock. A socket-like cover, exhibiting a ventilation hole, is locked into place and pushed onto the end section of the tube which protrudes out of the opening on the rear of the reflector. The socket like cover serves to protect the tube filled with the desiccative against contamination and flooding.

Abstract: The invention concerns a headlight for motor vehicles with an annular mount that accommodates a cover plate and is connected to a reflector by an adjustment device and two bearings. The reflector can be pivoted around the axis of the bearings, which is horizontal when the headlight has been mounted. The reflector and the annular mount each have a cylindrical wall that face each other and overlap but do not come into contact with each other, and clamp between them a sealing ring that has a circular cross-section. The pivoting axis of the reflector is in the same plane as the sealing ring. The facing ends of the cylindrical wall of the reflector and of the mount face have no elevations or depressions. The two pivot bearings each consist of a tab shaped onto either the mount or the reflector and rotating on either the reflector or the mount.

Abstract: An automotive headlight with a bowl-shaped plastic reflector. The reflector has at its apex an opening surrounded at the rear of the reflector by a sheet-metal retaining ring. The ring accommodates an incandescent lamp. The lamp is inserted into openings in the reflector with its securing tabs bent back toward the reflector and is secured to the reflector by barbs on the securing tabs that engage the edges of the holes. To improve the headlight to the extent that the openings in the reflector that accommodate the securing tabs are large enough not to shorten the life of the tool and do not need to be produced with such a precise tolerance, while still ensuring that the retaining ring will fit the reflector reliably and snugly, the securing tabs are bent into a U and the openings in the reflector that accommodate the tabs are quadrilateral and approximately as high and as wide as the tabs.

Abstract: The invention concerns a headlight for motor vehicles, with a cover plate that covers up the reflector. An essentially U-shaped enclosure made out of sheet metal is positioned in the vicinity of the lamp, which fits into an opening in the vertex of the reflector. The flanks of the enclosure extend above and below but not in contact with the lamp, at least to some extent constituting a screen that screens off sections of the reflector that generate diffused light. The flank below the lamp also functions essentially as a supporting arm for the enclosure. The free terminal section of the supporting arm above the lamp has a third screen. A tongue is punched and bent out of the area of the U-shaped enclosure between the lamp and the cover plate and constitutes the upper supporting arm.

Abstract: A screened vehicular headlight with an ellipsoidal reflector has a source of light positioned in the reflector's first focal area. The headlight has a collecting lens positioned in the path of the rays behind the second focal area and accommodated in a rectangular area of a holder. A screen that produces a light-dark border is positioned between the collecting lens and the reflector and in the focal area of the lens. A transparent cover over the collecting lens has margins extending radially beyond the lens.