Door mirror assembly for a vehicle

• US 20040080840A1
• Filed: 10/08/2003
• Published: 04/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Original Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Inventors: Sugiyama, Kazuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,048,393 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/844
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/06 mounted on vehicle exterior B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence

Abstract

A door mirror assembly for a vehicle is provided, which includes a housing, a frame supporting the housing internally. The housing has a shell with a front aperture, two fixation ports and an engagement port. On the other hand, the frame has a main body to be enclosed by the shell, two fixation elements and an engagement element. The door mirror assembly further includes two fixation sections formed by fixing the two fixation ports and two fixation elements with fasteners and an engagement section formed by engaging the engagement port and engagement element. The door mirror assembly has a feature that the engagement section is adapted to be on the circumference of a circle, the center of circle lies on an axis defined by the two fixation sections, so that the rotational displacement of housing relative to the frame can be restricted.

Claims

1. A door mirror assembly for a vehicle comprising:

a housing, wherein the housing has a shell with a front aperture, two fixation ports formed on the inner surface of shell and an engagement port formed integrally with the shell;

a frame supporting the housing internally, wherein the frame has a main body to be enclosed by the shell, two fixation elements formed on the outer surface of main body and an engagement element formed integrally with the main body;

two fixation sections formed by fixing the two fixation ports and two fixation elements with fasteners; and

an engagement section formed by engaging the engagement port and engagement element,

wherein the engagement section is adapted to be on the circumference of a circle, the center of circle lies on an axis defined by the two fixation sections, so that the rotational displacement of housing relative to the frame can be restricted.

2. A door mirror assembly according to claim 1, wherein at least two engagement sections are provided and the engagement sections restrict the rotational displacement of housing in opposite directions each other.

3. A door mirror assembly according to claim 1, wherein the engagement port comprises a hole drilled into the shell, and the engagement element comprises a column projecting from the main body and the column has a claw at an end thereof, and wherein not only the column is adapted to reach beyond the outer surface of shell through the hole while the column is in contact with a side wall of the hole, but also the claw is adapted to be in contact with the periphery of hole.

4. A door mirror assembly according to claim 3, wherein the column has a contact surface to be in contact with the inner surface of shell.

5. A door mirror assembly according to claim 3, wherein the claw is adapted to be positioned so that a direction of the width of claw is substantially in parallel with the axis.