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Adjusting instrument for electrically adjusting the interior mirror of a motor vehicle about two mutually perpendicular axes

  • US 4,895,337 A
  • Filed: 04/12/1988
  • Issued: 01/23/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Electrically adjustable interior mirror structure of a motor vehicle, said structure comprising:

  • a suspension device suspendable at a point of suspension from a motor vehicle interior, said suspension device including a housing;

    a mirror mounting plate connected to said suspension device and adjustable about two mutually perpendicular axes;

    a mirror mounted to said plate; and

    two electrically operable drive units accommodated in said housing, said drive units having respective output shafts extending perpendicular to one another and connected to said mirror mounting plate for adjusting said mirror mounting plate about said axes thereof, respectively,said drive units and said mirror mounting plate having the mirror mounted thereto being so disposed relative to the point of suspension of said suspension device that when the suspension device is suspended, the torque exerted by said drive units at the point of suspension is equal but opposite to the torque exerted at the point of suspension by said mirror mounting plate and said mirror.

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