Side mirror device

• US 10,259,391 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2015
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Sakai, Tomoaki, Ishikawa, Takeshi, Nakamura, Jun, Sawada, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Font, Frank G
• Application Number:
  US15/518,294
• Publication Number:
  US 20170305350A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,280 Days
• Field of Search: 359841, 359871, 296 111
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/06 mounted on vehicle exterior B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/0617 foldable along the vehicle, e.g. in case of external force applied thereon
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/074 for retracting the mirror arrangements to a non-use position alongside the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/076 yieldable to excessive external force and provided with an indexed use position B60R1/0617, B60R1/074 take precedence

Abstract

This side mirror device includes: a mirror base; a housing a bearing mechanism; a mirror; an inclining mechanism; an internal housing; and a cover, wherein the bearing mechanism and the inclining mechanism are contained in an interior of the housing, and wherein the bearing mechanism and the inclining mechanism are formed so as to face each other across the mirror base along an axis line of the bearing mechanism, wherein the housing has an upper cover and a lower cover that are disposed so as to face each other, wherein the upper cover and the lower cover whose outer surface shapes form an mirror-image symmetry with each other, wherein the cover forms, on a rear side, an opening edge portion that exposes the mirror, wherein the opening edge portion is made of an involuted recess portion that is a rear-side end portion of the cover being bent inwardly toward the mirror, and wherein with the rear-side end portion of the internal housing is inserted into the involuted recess portion, the rear-side end portion of the cover is engaged with the rear-side end portion of the internal housing.

Claims

1. A side mirror device, comprising:

mirrors that are attached to outer surfaces on both sides of a vehicle along a vehicular width direction;

housings that hold the mirrors; and

mirror bases that couple the housings to the vehicle,

wherein the housing has an upper cover and a lower cover that are disposed so as to face each other, and

wherein shapes of outer surfaces of the upper cover and the lower cover form a mirror-image symmetry with each other.

2. The side mirror device according to claim 1,

wherein in the mirror base, an engagement region that is engaged with the housing is disposed between the upper cover and the lower cover, and

wherein in the mirror base, the engagement region directly faces the upper cover and the lower cover.

3. The side mirror device according to claim 2,

wherein the outer surfaces of the upper cover and the lower cover are formed in a shape that is further inclined toward a rear of the vehicle as it is farther away from the mirror base along an up-down direction of the vehicle.

4. The side mirror device according to claim 1,

wherein between the upper cover and the lower cover, a center cover is provided that outwardly extends continuously from the engagement region of the mirror base along the vehicular width direction, and

wherein the center cover is sandwiched between the upper cover and the lower cover.

5. The side mirror device according to claim 4, wherein the engagement region of the mirror base and the center cover are formed at least in a connection portion therebetween so as to have a substantially same width along an up-down direction of the vehicle.

6. The side mirror device according to claim 4,

wherein the housing comprises an internal housing that is disposed in an internal space surrounded by the upper cover, the lower cover, and the center cover,

wherein between the internal housing and the center cover, a predetermined gap is held, and

wherein in the gap, a connection member is disposed that connects between the internal housing and at least one of the upper cover and the lower cover.

7. The side mirror device according to claim 4, wherein in an outer circumferential edge portion of at least one of the upper cover and the lower cover, a recess portion is formed that is engageable with an outer circumferential edge portion of the internal housing and an outer circumferential edge portion of the center cover.

8. The side mirror device according to claim 7, wherein on a vehicular-width-direction outer end portion of the center cover, a click portion is formed that engages the internal housing.

9. The side mirror device according to claim 6, wherein on a vehicular-width-direction outer end portion of the internal housing, an abutment portion is provided that abuts the vehicular-width-direction outer end portion of the center cover.

10. The side mirror device according to claim 9, wherein a vehicular-width-direction inner end portion of the center cover is engaged with the internal housing via an engaging click.