Tilting device for use in anti-glare mirror

• US 4,448,488 A
• Filed: 09/27/1982
• Issued: 05/15/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TKAI RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Inventors: Nakaho, Junichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Corbin, John K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): DZIERZYNSKI, PAUL M
• Application Number:
  US06/424,497
• Time in Patent Office: 596 Days
• Field of Search: 350/278, 350/279, 350/281, 74/471, 74/501, 74/501 M
• US Class Current: 359/606
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/087 with remote or automatic control means
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 7/1827 Motorised alignment
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20432 for moving a mirror

Abstract

A tilting device for use in an anti-glare mirror including a prism mirror, a plate for holding the prism mirror, and a casing for accommodating the prism mirror and the plate in it. The tilting device includes a contact projection mounted on the plate, a spring for urging the plate and the prism mirror, a rotary member having a cam face formed on its one face, and a reversible motor for driving the rotary member such that the prism mirror is changed over to either one of a normal position and an anti-glare position.

Claims

1. A tilting device for use in an anti-glare mirror including a prism mirror, a plate for holding said prism mirror fixedly secured thereto, and a casing, with the plate being accommodated in said casing together with said prism mirror, said tilting device arranged to support said plate such that said plate is tiltable together with said prism mirror in a forward direction and in a rearward direction of said casing about a horizontal rotational axis in said casing and comprising:

a contact projection which is mounted at a predetermined position on a rear face of said plate such that the predetermined position is disposed above or below said horizontal rotational axis;

a spring for urging said plate and said prism mirror about the horizontal rotational axis;

a rotary member having a cam face formed on one face thereof, which is rotatably provided at a position in said casing so as to confront said contact projection such that said contact projection is brought into sliding contact with said cam face with said one face extending in a radial direction of said rotary member;

said cam face comprising a first plane, a second plane, and a spirally inclined face interposed between said first plane and said second plane such that said first plane, said spirally inclined face and said second plane are arranged in a circumferential direction of said rotary member so as to form a circle with said first plane being different, in level, in an axial direction of said rotary member, from said second plane; and

a reversible motor for driving said rotary member, which is provided in said casing;

whereby when said rotary member is rotated upon forward rotation or reverse rotation of said reversible motor, said contact projection is selectively brought into pressure contact with said first plane and said second plane such that said prism mirror is changed over to either one of two positions in the forward direction and in the rearward direction of said casing.

2. A tilting device as claimed in claim 1, further including a clutch mechanism provided between said rotary member and said reversible motor.

3. A tilting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a limit switch for turning on or off said reversible motor is provided so as to stop said rotary member at predetermined positions.

4. A tilting device as claimed in claim 2, wherein a limit switch for turning on or off said reversible motor is provided so as to stop said rotary member at predetermined positions.

5. A tilting device as claimed in claim 2, further including a stopper member formed on said cam face so as to stop rotation of said rotary member through contact of said contact projection by said stopper member, said reversible motor being arranged to be supplied with electric power for a time period slightly longer than that required for said contact projection to come into contact with said stopper member and being caused to run idle by said clutch mechanism after contact of said contact projection by said stopper member.