Automobile door mirror

• US 6,561,658 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2001
• Issued: 05/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Original Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Inventors: Mochizuki, Toshihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): SIKDER, MOHAMMAD YUNUS
• Application Number:
  US09/926,659
• Publication Number:
  US 20020135904A1
• Time in Patent Office: 530 Days
• Field of Search: 359/841, 359/842, 359/843, 359/871, 359/872, 359/877, 248/475.1, 248/476, 248/479
• US Class Current: 359/841
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/074 for retracting the mirror arrangements to a non-use position alongside the vehicle

Abstract

A rotation restricting structure of an automobile door mirror, in which a shaft is erected on the top surface of a projection portion of a mirror base, and in which a frame for supporting a mirror body is turnably fitted onto the shaft, wherein a stopper member for restricting a turning angle by engaging with the frame is provided between the frame and the shaft. The stopper member includes a projection, which is formed on the shaft base portion in such a way as to be integral therewith, and an angle adjusting plate provided separately from the projection. The adjusting plate having a thickness corresponding to a folding angle of the door mirror is attached to each or one of both the opposite side surfaces of the projection. Thus, even when the folding angle of the mirror body is changed, the frame and the shaft can be used in common among the door mirrors. Moreover, the strength of the stopper can be increased.

Claims

1. A mirror for a door which comprises:

a mirror base mountable on a door and which has a projection portion;

a shaft positionable on a top surface of a projection portion of a mirror base, and in which a frame for supporting a mirror body is turnably fitted onto said shaft, and in which a stopper member for restricting a turning angle by engaging with said frame is provided between said frame and said shaft;

said stopper member comprising a projection which is formed on a base portion of said shaft in such a way as to be integral therewith, and an angle adjusting plate provided separately from said projection, said projection having opposite side surfaces;

said adjusting plate having a thickness corresponding to a folding angle of said door mirror and being attached to at least one of said opposite side surfaces of said projection.

2. A door mirror according to claim 1, wherein said adjusting plate is fixed to one of said shaft and said mirror base, and is positioned on said at least one of said side surfaces of said projection.

3. A door mirror according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said adjusting plate is fixed to said projection by one of a screwing connection, a bonding connection, and a fitting connection.

4. A door mirror according to claim 2 or 3, wherein said adjusting plates are respectively attached to both said side surfaces of said projection in such a way as to sandwich said projection therebetween and are formed so as to have thicknesses differing from each other.