VEHICLE MIRROR DEVICE

• US 20170028925A1
• Filed: 06/08/2015
• Published: 02/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Inventors: YOKOYAMA, Kazuyuki, OHASHI, Masatsugu, ARAI, Masahiro
• Application Number:
  US15/302,309
• Publication Number:
  US 20170028925A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 1/12 Mirror assemblies combined with other articles, e.g. clocks
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2001/1215 with information displays
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0018 Redirecting means on the surface of the light guide
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0038 Linear indentations or grooves, e.g. arc-shaped grooves or meandering grooves, extending over the full length or width of the light guide

Abstract

A door mirror device has a main mirror having a first reflecting surface that enables a periphery of a vehicle to be viewed, and a sub-mirror that is disposed adjacent to the main mirror. The sub-mirror includes a light guide having a light guiding portion into which light from an LED is introduced. A second reflecting surface, that enables a periphery of the vehicle to be viewed, is provided at a surface of the light guide. Further, a light portion, that illuminates, toward an out-of-plane direction of the second reflecting surface, light from the LED that has been introduced into the light guide interior, is provided at the second reflecting surface.

Claims

1. A vehicle mirror device comprising:

a first mirror that is provided at a vehicle and that has a first reflecting surface that reflects light; and

a second mirror disposed adjacent to the first mirror and structured to include a light guide that has a light guiding portion into whose interior light from a light source is introduced, a second reflecting surface that is provided at a surface of the light guide and that reflects light, and a light portion that is provided at the second reflecting surface and that is lit by the light that is introduced into the light guide interior.

2. The vehicle mirror device of claim 1, wherein, at a boundary of the first mirror and the second mirror, the first reflecting surface and the second reflecting surface are disposed so as to be offset in a thickness direction of the first mirror.

3. The vehicle mirror device of claim 1, wherein the light guiding portion is disposed so as to face the first mirror in a thickness direction of the first mirror.

4. The vehicle mirror device of claim 2, wherein the light guiding portion is disposed so as to face the first mirror in a thickness direction of the first mirror.