Automotive device with a lateral blinker

• US 6,816,066 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2001
• Issued: 11/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Metagal Indãºstria E Comã©Rcio LTDA
• Original Assignee: Metagal Indãºstria E Comã©Rcio LTDA
• Inventors: Miyabukuro, Pedro Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pope, Daryl
• Application Number:
  US09/860,853
• Publication Number:
  US 20020067252A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,271 Days
• Field of Search: 340/425.5, 340/431, 340/463, 340/465, 340/468, 340/470, 340/475, 340/331, 340/332, 362/492, 362/494, 362/543, 362/544, 362/545, 362/800
• US Class Current: 340/463
• 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 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/80 Light emitting diode

Abstract

An automotive device attachable to a vehicle has an external rearview mirror including a mirror element and an end support attachable to a vehicle and supporting the mirror element, and a lateral blinker including a light source and a supporting element which supports the light source, the supporting element with the light source being incorporated in the external rearview mirror.

Claims

1. An automobile device attachable to a vehicle, comprising an external rearview mirror including a mirror element end an end support attachable to a vehicle and supporting said mirror element, said end support having a lower base disposable proximate to a door of the vehicle and also having an upper base;

a lateral blinker including a light source and a supporting element which supports said light source, said light source of said lateral blinker being disposed in said lower base of said support of said external rearview mirror, away from an external side of said external rearview mirror so that said light source with said supporting element is integrated in said external rearview mirror.

2. An automotive device as defined in claim 1, wherein said support of said external rearview mirror has a connecting element which connect said upper base and said lower base with one another.

3. An automotive device as defined in claim 2, wherein said connecting element of said support of said external rearview mirror is C-shaped and has opposite free ends provided with said bases.

4. An automotive device as defined in claim 1, wherein said lateral blinker has a lens which covers said bulb and is fixed by insertion of said supporting element.

5. An automotive device as defined in claim 1, wherein said lower base has a hollow part, said supporting element of said lateral blinker having an upper part inserted in said hollow part.

6. An automotive device as defined in claim 5, and further comprising spring means located in said hollow part of said lower base and cooperating with said upper part of said supporting element.

7. An automotive device as defined in claim 3, wherein said lower base has a radial lateral part fixable to a vehicle and receiving a wire of an electrical supply to said light source.

8. An automotive device as defined in claim 1, wherein said lateral blinker is assembled in said external rearview mirror adjustably;

and further comprising adjusting means for adjusting a position of said lateral blinker and said external rearview mirror.

9. An automotive device as defined in claim 8, wherein said adjusting means include a brace which is fixed in a portion of said support of said external rearview mirror.