Housing for vehicular lamp assembly

Claim 1

In a vehicular lamp assembly housing for supporting the body of a vehicular lamp assembly such as a headlamp assembly adjustably in the mounting angle of said lamp assembly body, said housing being fixed to a vehicle body in a predetermined position, the improvement characterized in that: (A) the housing is constituted as an annular structure in a plane shape thereof wherein there is centrally formed therethrough a hole which permits insertion therein of the rear end portion of the vehicular lamp assembly, and at least a portion of said housing extends in the depth direction to form a surface curved in three dimensions; (B) the inner and outer peripheral portions of the annular structure are respectively formed with annular, inner and outer peripheral edges bent backwards approximately perpendicularly to the surface of the annular structure; (C) an annular or generally annular, continuous reinforcing rib is erected between said inner and outer peripheral edges and a multitude of connecting ribs are formed at appropriate intervals in a crossing relation to said reinforcing rib; and (D) said annular structure is obtained by integral molding using a fiber-reinforced synthetic resin.