Vehicle mirror device

• US 10,252,673 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2015
• Issued: 04/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Inventors: Yokoyama, Kazuyuki, Ohashi, Masatsugu, Arai, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Carruth, Jennifer D.
• Application Number:
  US15/122,855
• Publication Number:
  US 20170066376A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,509 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/025 comprising special mechanical means for correcting the field of view in relation to particular driving conditions, e.g. change of lane; scanning mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/072 for adjusting the mirror relative to its housing
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/081 avoiding blind spots, e.g. by using a side-by-side association of mirrors

Abstract

In a vehicle door mirror device, a main unit supports a secondary unit via a mirror holder, and the secondary unit supports a secondary mirror. For this reason, by actuating the main unit to tilt the secondary mirror via the mirror holder and the secondary unit and simultaneously actuating the secondary unit to tilt the secondary mirror, the tilting speed of the secondary mirror can be increased.

Claims

1. A vehicle mirror device comprising:

a first mirror that is disposed in a vehicle;

a first tilting mechanism that is electrically powered, and that supports the first mirror, an angle of a mirror surface of the first mirror being adjusted as a result of the first tilting mechanism tilting the first mirror;

a second mirror that is disposed in the vehicle; and

a second tilting mechanism that is electrically powered, and that is tiltably supported by the first tilting mechanism and supports the second mirror, an angle of a mirror surface of the second mirror being adjusted as a result of the first tilting mechanism tilting the second mirror by tilting the second tilting mechanism with respect to the first tilting mechanism and the angle of the mirror surface of the second mirror being adjusted as a result of the second tilting mechanism tilting the second mirror.

2. The vehicle mirror device according to claim 1, wherein a tilting center of the second mirror is placed on one side of a center of the mirror surface of the second mirror.

3. The vehicle mirror device according to claim 1, wherein the second mirror is placed on an obverse side of the first mirror.

4. The vehicle mirror device according to claim 1, wherein horizontal direction positions of a position where the first mirror is actuated by the first tilting mechanism and a tilting center of the second mirror coincide with each other.

5. The vehicle mirror device according to claim 1, wherein the mirror holder is a one-piece mirror holder having first and second support portions for supporting the first and second mirrors, respectively.

6. The vehicle mirror device according to claim 1, wherein the mirror holder includes separate first and second support portions for supporting the first and second mirrors, respectively, and wherein the second support portion is mounted on the first mirror.

7. The vehicle mirror device according to claim 1, further comprising a single mirror holder that holds both the first and second mirrors,

wherein the first tilting mechanism is connected to the single mirror holder such that the first tilting mechanism simultaneously adjusts the mirror surface of both said first and second mirrors by a same angle, and

wherein the second tilting mechanism adjusts only the angle of the mirror surface of the second mirror.