OUTER MIRROR WITH TURN LAMP

• US 20110051444A1
• Filed: 07/07/2010
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Original Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Inventors: MURATA, Yoshihiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,177,400 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/494
• 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 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators

Abstract

There is provided an outer mirror with turn lamp that facilitates assembling of a housing cover to a mirror housing and increases strength of the housing cover. A turn lamp assembly is mounted to a mirror housing. A housing cover is placed over and mounted to a partial area of the mirror housing. Thus, a lens of the turn lamp assembly is exposed through an opening formed in an outer position of the housing cover. The mirror housing and the housing cover are connected to each other with a ridge and a groove in end surfaces and abutting against and fitting each other. On a wall on an inner side of the mirror that constitutes a part of the component of the groove in the housing cover, at an assembling start position in an outer position outside the opening, an assembling leading rib is formed that protrudes in a direction abutting against the end surface of the mirror housing.

Claims

1. An outer mirror with turn lamp having a structure in which with a turn lamp assembly being mounted to a mirror housing, a housing cover is placed over and mounted to a partial area of the mirror housing, and a lens of the turn lamp assembly is exposed through an opening with a closed entire circumference formed in an outer position of the housing cover,

wherein the mirror housing and the housing cover are connected to each other with end surfaces being abutted against each other,

a groove is formed in an abutting end surface of the housing cover,

a ridge that fits into the groove is formed in an abutting end surface of the mirror housing, and

on a wall on an inner side of the mirror among inner and outer walls that constitute the groove in the housing cover, at an assembling start position in an outer position outside the opening, an assembling leading rib is formed that protrudes in a direction abutting against the abutting end surface of the mirror housing and first leads the ridge in the abutting end surface of the mirror housing into the groove at the assembling start position.

2. The outer mirror according to claim 1, wherein the assembling leading rib has a length longer than a width of the opening, and is formed to extend to both sides of an area of the opening.

3. The outer mirror according to claim 1, wherein on the wall on the inner side of the mirror among the inner and outer walls that constitute the groove in the housing cover, a plurality of protrusions that protrude in a direction abutting against the abutting end surface of the mirror housing and sequentially lead the ridge in the abutting end surface of the mirror housing into the groove are placed at appropriate intervals in a position different from the position where the assembling leading rib is formed.

4. The outer mirror according to claim 2, wherein on the wall on the inner side of the mirror among the inner and outer walls that constitute the groove in the housing cover, a plurality of protrusions that protrude in a direction abutting against the abutting end surface of the mirror housing and sequentially lead the ridge in the abutting end surface of the mirror housing into the groove are placed at appropriate intervals in a position different from the position where the assembling leading rib is formed.

5. The outer mirror according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of protrusions are placed such that the interval increases with the distance from the assembling leading rib.

6. The outer mirror according to claim 4, wherein the plurality of protrusions are placed such that the interval increases with the distance from the assembling leading rib.