Wide range rearview mirror with signal and safety lights

• US 20040212489A1
• Filed: 03/04/2004
• Published: 10/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jack Sing Chiow Chan
• Original Assignee: Jack Sing Chiow Chan
• Inventors: Chan, Jack Sing Chiow
• Granted Patent: US 7,129,829 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/475
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/2665 on rear-view mirrors lighting devices for vehicle interior on or for rear-view mirrors B60Q3/258
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/082 using a single wide field mirror or an association of rigidly connected mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators

Abstract

A module of signal light and safety light is created for mounting onto the housing at the edge cover of the exterior rearview mirror of motor vehicles. Within the module wherein the signal light is installed at the upper compartment and the safety light at the lower compartment providing flashing turning signal and safety light illumination respectively for the vehicles. The invented module of signal and safety lights is designed for the mirror edge angle of 128° which is 38° wider than ordinary rearview mirror. The flashing of signal and the illumination of night light could be seen from the rear, the side and the front for driving safety on the road. Another advantage is that the flashing of signals would not be able to glare the eyes of the driver. The other few more patterns of signal and safety lights incorporated into the present invented Wide Range Rearview Mirror are created on the same rationale and methology. The exterior rearview mirror is an invented Wide Range Rearview Mirror with ¼ (25%) of curvature reflective mirror as composite to ¾ (75%) flat reflective mirror. This composition with the curvature mirror in radius of 18 inches and the bending curve angle of 2.5° is the most effective rearview mirror as the maximum area of non-distortion (75%) could reflects objects as real as existing and the minimum area of curvature mirror (25%) could widen the scope of view and cover the blind spot with only a negligible distortion. This fine tuning model designed through computer Curve Fitting Program incorporated with the signal and safety light system would be the most effective multifunctional device for driving safety on the roads.

Claims

1. A created signal and safety light system incorporated with an invented exterior Wide Range Rearview Mirror of which the wide angle mirror cover edge is created with 128°

so as to enable the flashing of signal light and illumination of safety light mounting at the exterior rearview mirror for the left side and the right side of motor vehicles could be seen from the front, the side and the rear.

3. A wide angle exterior rearview mirror cover edge created with 128°

curve and any curve angle between 90°

-140°

for review mirror of claim 1 and claim 2 or for any exterior rearview mirror for gaining additional space to accommodate the mounting of modules of signal light and safety light is governed under this invention.

6. An invented exterior Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 and claim 2 is a multifunctional rearview mirror covering the blind spot, providing safety light for safety night driving and providing a signal light for lane changing and cornering turning safety.

8. A signal and safety light system incorporated with the claim 1 and claim 2 at any positions of the mirror in any shapes, round, oval, square, or rectangle and manufactured in various sizes and patterns for the use of cars, vans, trucks, cruisers, buses, trailers and motorcycles and scooters.

9. A signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 and claim 2 in oval shape mounted to the edge of the mirror cover as Pattern I.

10. A signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 and claim 2 each with two outlets in oval shapes mounted on to the mirror cover as Pattern Ia.

11. A signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 and claim 2 mounted to the edge cover housing and one safety light in round shape mounted in front of the mirror as Pattern II.

12. A signal and safety light system incorporated with exterior Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 and claim 2 having two signal light outlets in round shape with one in a arrow image, mounted to the edge of mirror cover and one safety light in round shape mounted to the mirror cover respectively as Pattern IIa

14. A signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 and claim 2 wherein the signal alights and safety lights are illuminated by LED Super Beam with one bulb for one outlet as Pattern IIc.

15. A special designed signal and safety light system incorporated with the big size of Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 and claim 2 with one module of signal light and another module of signal and safety light respectively mounted to the edge cover and the front cover of the mirror invented for buses, trailers and other heavy vehicles as Pattern III.

17. The replica of the exterior Wide Range Rearview Mirrors of claim 1 and claim 2 with curvature mirror at the right side incorporated with signal and safety lights in various patterns is for the right side of the motor vehicles, motorcycles and scooters.

18. A created signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 and claim 2 depicted as Patterns IV and other variations for motor cycles are reciprocally applicable to motor vehicles.

19. A signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 and claim 2 for motor cycles and scooters of which the created wide angle mirror cover edge is reduced to 118°

so as to reduce the thickness of the mirror cover for aesthetical esthetical reason.

2. A created signal and safety light system incorporated with the invented exterior Wide Range Rearview Mirror which is a combination mirror of a ¼

(25%) curvature reflective mirror as composite of a ¾

(75%) flat reflective mirror in which the bending curve angle of the curvature reflective mirror is 2.5°

with a curvature radius of 18 inches.

4. A created exterior Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 2 for the left side and the right side of motor vehicles, is to have the bending curve angle between 2°

and 7°

for the curvature reflective mirror and a radius of 16 inches to 19 inches.

5. A created exterior Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 2 is not with convex surface but with plane reflective surface sprayed with transparent scotch guard.

7. An exterior Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 2 with adjusted combination regardless of length, bending angle degree and sizes of the curvature mirror, designed with computer Curve Fitting Program and Solid Work Program is under the jurisdiction of this invention.

20. A side curvature mirror created by separating the ¼

portion of curvature mirror from the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 2 as an independent piece of curvature side mirror for sticking respectively onto the edge of the left side and the right side of the existing flat rearview mirror.

13. A signal and safety light system incorporated with the two signal light outlets in round shape with one in a arrow image and two safety light outlets in front of the mirror cover in round shape as Pattern IIb.

16. A signal and safety light system under the same methology incorporated with the conventional exterior flat rearview mirror in various patterns for cars, vans, pickups, cruisers, buses, trailers, heavy vehicles and motorcycles and scooters is governed under this inventions.