Back-mirror fitted with illumination light at car side

• US 4,809,137 A
• Filed: 09/21/1987
• Issued: 02/28/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kiyoshi Yamada
• Original Assignee: Kiyoshi Yamada
• Inventors: Yamada, Kiyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazarus, Ira S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hagarman, Sue
• Application Number:
  US07/099,125
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• Field of Search: 362/61, 362/66, 362/80, 362/138, 362/139, 362/142, 362/143, 362/144, 362/285, 362/286, 362/386
• US Class Current: 362/494
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/245 Searchlights, e.g. adjustable from within the vehicle adjustable headlights B60Q1/06
• 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 1/072 for adjusting the mirror relative to its housing
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/076 yieldable to excessive external force and provided with an indexed use position B60R1/0617, B60R1/074 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators

Abstract

Present invention relates to car back-mirror fitted with illumination light. In the conventional cars, forward and backward driving in the night time face no problems with the aid of head lights and rear lamps mounted at the front and rear ends of the car, but sighting of objects approaching from dark right and left side direction of the car or from up or down direction is very difficult due to no side lights. In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides car back-mirror fitted with illumination light which can be rotated in all directions so that dark side directions of the car may be irradiated.

Claims

1. Back-mirror fitted with illumination light at car side, comprising a back-mirror case 1 provided with an illumination light insertion opening 2 at lower wall and a steering rod insertion opening 3 at a left side edge, a steering tube formed at one end of a base plate 4 as an integral part thereof being encased in said case 1 together with said base plate 4, a steering rod being pushed into said steering tube 7 and a resilient coil spring 1 inserted around said steering tube 7 being pressed until a clip 13 fits snugly into a clip recess 14, a mechanism case 19 with a mechanism case lid 40 having holes 41, 41'"'"' being fixed to said base plate 4 in said case 1, a support frame 30 retaining an illumination light 20 being fixed at one end of a shaft tube 29, and said illumination light 20 being inserted into said illumination light insertion opening 2 so that a knurling member 32 formed at a front end of a driving shaft 31 may engage with a guiding knurling member 33 of said illumination light 20, characterized in that said illumination light 20 may be rotated toward up and down direction by the rotation of said driving shaft 31 and in right and left direction by the rotation of said shaft tube 29.

2. Back-mirror fitted with illumination light at car side according to claim 1, characterized in that said illumination light 20 is rotatably inserted into said illumination light insertion opening 2 provided at lower wall of said case 1.

3. Back-mirror fitted with illumination light at car side according to claim 1, characterized in that said case 1 comprises said illumination light insertion opening 2 at lower wall and said steering rod insertion opening 3 at a left side edge, and that said illumination light 20 retained by said support frame 30 may be inserted into said illumination light insertion opening 2.

4. Back-mirror fitted with illumination ligth at car side according to claim 1, characterised in that said shaft tube 29 and said driving shaft 31 being arranged in said mechanism case 19 provided with said mechanism case lid 40 having holes 41, 41'"'"', and that said mechanism case 19 and said mechanism case lid 40 being fixed to said base plate 4 in said case 1.