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Headlamp Assembly
United States Patent
Mateos et al. |
Patent Number: 4,807,094
Date of Patent: Feb. 21, 1989 |
| HEADLAMP ASSEMBLY |
| Inventors: |
Luis A. Mateos; Lawrence M. Rice, both of
Anderson, Ind. |
| Assignee: |
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Mich. |
| Appl. No.: |
135942 |
| Filed: |
Dec. 21, 1987 |
| Int. Class: |
B60Q 1/00 |
| U.S. Class: |
362/80; 362/290 |
| Field of Search: |
362/61, 80, 82, 290, 342, 268, 296, 299, 237, 245, 307, 327, 329;
296/1 R, 194; D26/28, 35 |
References Cited
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| 1463024 |
July 1923 |
Steinhauer et al. |
362/290 |
| 3487206 |
December 1969 |
Dawson et al. |
362/80 |
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| 4153928 |
May 1979 |
Speedy |
362/80 |
| 4383290 |
May 1983 |
Binder et al. |
362/80 |
| 4525772 |
June 1985 |
Peck |
362/290 |
| 4722033 |
January 1988 |
Van Duyn et al. |
362/80 |
FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS |
| 0074726 |
Mar. 1983 |
European Patent Office |
362/268 |
| 2129537 |
May 1984 |
United Kingdom |
362/61 |
Primary Examiner- Ira S. Lazarus
Assistant Examiner- D. M. Cox
Attorney, Agent, or Firm- Edward J. Biskup |
Abstract
A headlamp assembly having a colorless lens which is positioned flush with the
adjacent panels at the front end of a motor vehicle and which includes horizontal louvre and vertical
slat means located within the body of the headlamp that art of the same color as the adjacent panels
and are positioned and spaced therein so that the lens appears to be the same color as the adjacent
panels.
9 Claims, 3 Drawing Sheets |
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