EXTERIOR REARVIEW MIRROR ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20190001895A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-03

    申请号:US16105141

    申请日:2018-08-20

    Abstract: A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head and a mounting base, with the mirror head having a mirror casing and a reflective element, and with the mounting base configured for attachment at a vehicle. A camera module is disposed at the mirror head and includes a camera having a field of view and operable to capture image data. The camera module is extendable and retractable relative to the mirror casing. With the camera module retracted, the camera module is oriented such that the field of view of the camera encompasses a blind spot region at least at the body side of the vehicle. With the camera module retracted, an inboard limit of the field of view of the camera partially overlaps an outboard limit of a field of view provided to a driver of the vehicle by the reflective element.

    AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTABLE MIRROR ASSEMBLY
    33.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180345861A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-06

    申请号:US15527824

    申请日:2015-11-19

    CPC classification number: B60R1/072

    Abstract: An adjustable vehicle mirror assembly uses a revolution sensor for detecting revolutions of an element in a mirror rotation drive chain. A control circuit uses the revolution sensor control rotation of the mirror to a preset orientation by counting revolutions and controlling a motor power supply and its direction dependent on whether the count indicates that the count of revolutions has reached a preset value. At power down, power up or when a new preset value is defined the control circuit switches to an overrule state in order to calibrate an offset. The control circuit continues operating in the overrule state until a rotation coupling in the mirror assembly reaches a disengaged state or stalls.

    Vehicle Rearview Mirror
    34.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180265006A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-20

    申请号:US15459624

    申请日:2017-03-15

    Applicant: Wen-Pin TSENG

    Inventor: Wen-Pin TSENG

    CPC classification number: B60R1/081 B60R1/072 B60R1/1207

    Abstract: A vehicle rearview mirror is mounted in an accommodation casing of a vehicle and contains: an electric direction control assembly, a connection plate, a first reflector lens, and a reflector lens assembly. The electric direction control assembly includes a fixing seat and a movable sheet. The connection plate is disposed on the movable sheet away from the fixing seat and includes a first contacting portion and a coupling portion, the first contacting portion has a first plane away from the electric direction control assembly, and the coupling portion has a second plane away from the electric direction control assembly, wherein the second plane is lower than the first plane. The first reflector lens is secured on the first plane of the first contacting portion, and the reflector lens assembly includes a second contacting portion, a universal connector, and a second reflector lens.

    Wing mirror unit, drive construction, and rotation sensor

    公开(公告)号:US09975489B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-22

    申请号:US15304913

    申请日:2015-05-13

    CPC classification number: B60R1/074 B60R1/072 B60Y2400/301 B60Y2400/41

    Abstract: Wing mirror unit, drive construction, and rotation sensor The invention relates to a wing mirror unit (1) for a motor vehicle. The unit comprises a mirror housing support (3) for attachment to a body (4) of the motor vehicle (2). The wing mirror unit further comprises a mirror housing (5) supported by the mirror housing support and pivotably arranged with respect to said support around a rotation axis (6) extending substantially in an upward direction. Furthermore, the unit comprises a drive, preferably an electric drive, for pivoting the mirror housing between a folded-out position of the mirror housing, in which the mirror housing extends substantially in a direction (7) away from the body of the motor vehicle, and a folded-in position of the mirror housing, in which the mirror housing projects less far and extends in a substantially rearward direction more alongside the body of the motor vehicle, and/or for pivoting the mirror housing between the folded-in position and the folded-out position. The wing mirror unit also comprises a rotation sensor (8), preferably a potentiometer, having a sensor axis (9). Said unit is arranged for rotating the sensor axis during a limited part of the pivoting route between the folded-out position and the folded-in position and/or during a limited part of the pivoting route between the folded-in position and the folded-out position.

    VIEW ANGLE ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM IN VIEW DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20170282802A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-05

    申请号:US15469704

    申请日:2017-03-27

    Inventor: Naomi SUGIMURA

    Abstract: This invention relates to a view angle adjustment mechanism. A view element tilting section is tiltably supported by a tilting support section via an inner pivot and an outer pivot. The view element tilting section includes a view element holder holding a view element. The inner pivot and the outer pivot are formed between the tilting support section and the view element holder. The outer pivot has a structure in which an outer-pivot convex surface formed at the view element holder and an outer-pivot concave surface formed at the tilting support section are slidably fitted together. The outer-pivot convex surface is formed in an outer circumferential surface of an outer-pivot convex surface-forming annular wall formed at a back surface of the view element holder in an integrated manner.

    ACTUATOR MECHANISM, EXTERIOR MIRROR DEVICE AND VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20170240114A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-24

    申请号:US15512937

    申请日:2015-09-21

    Abstract: The invention relates to an actuator mechanism for adjusting at least one angular position of a mirror element in an exterior mirror device for a motor vehicle. The actuator mechanism comprises a base element and a mirror element movably coupled with the base element, which comprises a mirror support for supporting a mirror surface. The mirror element is rotatable relative to the base element about at least a first pivoting axis with the aid of a first electric motor provided in the actuator mechanism, which extends in a longitudinal direction that is substantially transverse to a supporting surface of the mirror support. What can be elegantly facilitated by this, for instance also in the case of a relatively small mirror surface that is only a few centimeters wide and/or is only a few centimeters long, is that, as seen from a direction in which during use the mirror surface is being viewed by a driver, such electric motor does not protrude, or hardly protrudes, next to, above and/or below the mirror surface.

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