Rearview mirror for motor vehicles

• US 6,357,886 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2001
• Issued: 03/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Metagal Indãºstria E Comã©Rcio LTDA
• Original Assignee: Metagal Indãºstria E Comã©Rcio LTDA
• Inventors: Miyabukuro, Pedro Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): SIKDER, MOHAMMAD YUNUS
• Application Number:
  US09/768,766
• Publication Number:
  US 20010012165A1
• Time in Patent Office: 419 Days
• Field of Search: 359/879, 359/871, 359/872, 359/876, 248/467, 248/468, 248/481, 248/222.11, 248/478, 248/225.11
• US Class Current: 359/879
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/04 mounted inside vehicle B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence

Abstract

An internal rearview mirror has a mirror assembly, and an assembling device for connecting the mirror assembly to a windshield, the assembling device including a first base connected with the mirror assembly provided with a fixation device, and a second base fixable to the windshield and formed so that the first base being detachably connectable to the second base, the first base having a superior face adapted to be adjacent to the windshield and provided with a resilient pawl with a projection, and the second base having a posterior edge, formed so that when the first base is forced onto the second base the pawl with the first projection first resilient deflect and thereafter the projection engages behind a posterior edge of the second base so as to retain the bases assembled with one another.

Claims

1. An internal rearview mirror, comprising a mirror assembly;

and an assembling device for connecting said mirror assembly to a windshield, said assembling device including a first base connected with said mirror assembly provided with a fixation device, and a second base fixable to the windshield and formed so that said first base being detachably connectable to said second base, said first base having a superior face adapted to be adjacent to the windshield and provided with a resilient pawl with a projection, and said second base having a posterior edge, formed so that when said first base is forced onto said second base said pawl with said first projection first resilient deflect and thereafter said projection engages behind a posterior edge of said second base so as to retain said bases assembled with one another, said first base having a lodging with a posterior opening for receiving said second base, said first base having a superior side and a protecting peripheral wall which forms said lodging.

2. An internal rearview mirror as defined in claim 1, wherein said first base and said fixation device are formed as a one-piece integral element.

3. An internal rearview mirror as defined in claim 1, wherein said mirror assembly has a support arm, said first base having a part which is connected with said support arm in an articulated manner.

4. An internal rearview mirror as defined in claim 1, wherein a peripheral wall of said first base is provided with guides, said second base being provided with lateral chamfers which are guided by said guides.

5. An internal rearview mirror as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising elastic clips including shoulders provided in a peripheral wall of said first base and chamfer edges provided in said second base and cooperating with said shoulders.

6. An internal rearview mirror as defined in claim 1, wherein said projection of said wall is a cuneiform projection.