Auxiliary brake light for motor vehicles

• US 4,703,398 A
• Filed: 10/29/1986
• Issued: 10/27/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Daimler-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Daimler-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Inventors: Dahm, Horst, Moetting, Goetz, Haeberle, Fritz, Huth, Lothar
• Primary Examiner(s): Scott, Samuel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Flanigan, Allen J.
• Application Number:
  US06/924,336
• Time in Patent Office: 363 Days
• Field of Search: 362/61, 362/80, 362/226, 339/119 L, 339/125 L, 339/125 R, 340/7, 340/87, 340/97
• US Class Current: 362/503
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/302 mounted in the vicinity, e.g. in the middle, of a rear window

Abstract

An auxiliary brake light for motor vehicles which consists of a socket mounted securely on the hat storage shelf and of a light housing pivotally mounted on the socket toward the rear window; the auxiliary brake light includes means for sealing the light exit surface with respect to the rear window for preventing stray light; the light housing is displaceably and pivotally connected with the socket by way of bolts engaging in guide channels and at least one springy tongue projects from the socket which is adapted to be connected with the light housing in a detent-like manner.

Claims

1. An auxiliary brake light for motor vehicles, comprising socket means preassemblable securely near a rear window on a body part, a light housing means mountable pivotally on the socket means, and seal means for avoiding stray-light by sealing the light exit surface of the light housing means with respect to the rear window, one of socket and light housing means including two oppositely disposed guide channels extending substantially in the vehicle longitudinal direction in which guide bolts protruding from the other of the socket and light housing means are displaceably and rotatably guided, at least one springy tongue means projecting from one of socket and light housing means which during assembly is supported with prestress at a counter-surface of the other of said socket and light housing means, the counter surface and the surface of the tongue means facing the same being provided with grooves forming teeth and extending transversely to the displacement direction, and the side of the light housing means facing the rear window being matched in its course to the inclination of the rear window and being provided along its circumference with a soft rubber seal forming part of the seal means.

2. An auxiliary brake light according to claim 1, wherein pin means, which extend away from the light housing means and are electrically conductively connected with an incandescent lamp, engage during assembly in an electric plug-in contact means of the socket means.

3. An auxiliary brake light according to claim 2, wherein said light housing means includes a housing cover, and wherein the light housing means after removal of the housing cover is disengageable from the grooves of the counter surface by lifting off the freely accessible tongue means and is detachable from the socket means.

4. An auxiliary brake light according to claim 3, wherein the spring action of the tongue means is directed in the direction of the rear window.

5. An auxiliary brake light according to claim 1, wherein said body part is a hat deposit shelf.

6. An auxiliary brake light according to claim 1, wherein said light housing means includes a housing cover, and wherein the light housing means after removal of the housing cover is disengageable from the grooves of the counter surface bY lifting off the freely accessible tongue means and is detachable from the socket means.

7. An auxiliary brake light according to claim 1, wherein the spring action of the tongue means is directed in the direction of the rear window.