Illumination – Supported by vehicle structure – Specific lamp mounting or retaining
Reexamination Certificate
2000-12-29
2002-10-29
Husar, Stephen (Department: 2875)
Illumination
Supported by vehicle structure
Specific lamp mounting or retaining
C362S369000, C362S507000, C362S546000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06471386
ABSTRACT:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application claims priority of Korea patent Application No. 2000-65025, filed on Nov. 2, 2000.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a mounting structure of automobile headlamp which can cope with the current Safety Rule for Pedestrians in Europe by properly absorbing the impact during automobile accident with inserting and mounting a bellow spring to conventional mounting boss divided by two and a bellows spring bracket to conventional bolt and snap fitting pin.
2. Brief Description of Prior Art
Generally, since a mounting structure of automobile headlamp is firmly mounted to an automobile body, there is no available structure to absorb the impact force except for a front bumper during the automobile accident with a pedestrian.
As shown in
FIGS. 7 and 8
, the conventional mounting structure of automobile headlamp is fabricated in a manner such that a monoblock mounting boss
11
is mounted to an upper member panel
16
of a headlamp housing with a bolt
14
, while the lower end of the headlamp housing
10
is mounted to a supporting panel
17
with a snapping fitting pin
15
or bolt
14
.
However, the conventional mounting structure of automobile headlamp cannot meet the current Safety Rule for Pedestrians in Europe, since its firmly mounted parts to the automobile body is vulnerable to cracking owing to the impact force generated during an automobile accident.
For reference the current Safety Rule for Pedestrians in Europe prescribes that an automobile manufacturer, who intends to export his/her automobiles to Europe, should obtain a certificate warranting the impact-absorbing structure of automobile parts in order to further protect the pedestrian when the front part of an automobile collides with a pedestrian
Further, the testing procedures of the safe rule requires that when any impact force is provided to the upper part of headlamp at the angle of 45~50° upward from the headlamp, the headlamp should be designed to have an impact force of less than 300 Nm moment.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
To cope with the current Safety Rule for Pedestrians in Europe, therefore, an object of this invention is to provide a mounting structure of automobile headlamp that is elastically moved backward and downward so that its parts can absorb the impact power from the automobile accident by mounting a bellows spring and bellows spring bracket.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4475148 (1984-10-01), Tomforde
patent: 4658335 (1987-04-01), Culler
patent: 6135619 (2000-10-01), Donaire Camacho et al.
patent: 6190030 (2001-02-01), Chase
Christie Parker & Hale LLP
Hyundai Motor Company
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