Wide range rearview mirror with signal and safety lights

• US 7,129,829 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2004
• Issued: 10/31/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jack Sing Chiow Chan
• Original Assignee: Jack Sing Chiow Chan
• Inventors: Chan, Jack Sing Chiow
• Primary Examiner(s): Hofsass, Jeffery
• Assistant Examiner(s): Previl, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US10/793,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20040212489A1
• Time in Patent Office: 971 Days
• Field of Search: 340/472, 340470-471, 340474-475, 340476-477, 359871-872, 359865-866, 359/850, 362/540
• US Class Current: 340/475
• 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 1/082 using a single wide field mirror or an association of rigidly connected mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators

Abstract

A module with various designs of signal and safety lights incorporated with a wide range rearview mirror for the exterior sides of motor vehicles. Within the module(s), a signal light(s) and a safety light(s) of varying shapes are included. The rearview mirror cover edge for the module mounting onto is designed with a curvature bending angle of at least 128 degrees within the range of 91 degrees to 180 degrees for the flashing of the signal light(s) and illumination of the safety light(s) can be seen from the rear, the side and the front. The wide range rearview mirror is a ¼ (25%) curvature reflective mirror in combination with a ¾ (75%) flat reflective mirror. This combination mirror provides minimal distortion while allowing a widened scope of view to cover the blind spot.

Claims

1. A signal and safety light system for an exterior wide range rear view mirror of the left side and the right side of a vehicle having:

a mirror cover having an interior and an exterior and having two sides;

a holder is attached to one side of said mirror cover;

said holder is then attached to a hanger that attaches to a vehicle and with a created curvature mirror cover edge at least 128 degrees between 91 degrees and 180 degrees;

a hollow chamber on the other side of said mirror cover for accommodating a module;

said module consists of two compartments forming a light system;

a first compartment including a signal light and the second compartment containing a safety light;

said chamber having a means for supporting said light system positioned vertically;

said compartments having a reflector and a light source;

said mirror cover having a composite mirror attached to the interior of said mirror cover;

said composite mirror having a ¼

(25%) curvature reflective mirror in combination with ¾

(75%) flat reflective mirror;

said curvature reflective mirror composite to said flat reflective mirror at a bending curve angle between 2 degrees and 7 degrees with a curvature radius of between 16 and 19 inches;

said composite mirror positioned such that the flashing of signal light and the illumination of safety light could be seen from the rear, the side and the front.

2. The signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide range rearview mirror of claim 1 wherein the created bending curvature angle between 91 degrees and 180 degrees for the rearview mirror cover edge for mounting of a module of signal light, safety light or signal and safety lights is a prior art.

3. A signal and safety light system incorporated with an exterior rearview mirror according to claim 1, wherein said mirror cover edge is created between 91 degrees and 180 degrees, preferably with an angle of 128 degrees.

4. A signal and safety light system incorporated with an exterior rearview mirror according to claim 1, wherein said curvature reflective mirror is composite to said flat reflective mirror at a bending curve angle of 2.5 degrees with a curvature radius of between 16 and 19 inches.

5. A signal and safety light system incorporated with the exterior Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 the mirror of which is not convex surface but with plane reflective surface sprayed with water proof transparent scotch guard.

6. The signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 could be in any shapes, round, oval, square, rectangle or strap manufactured in various sizes and pattern variations for use in cars, vans, trucks, cruisers, buses, trailers and motorcycles and scooters.

7. A signal and safety light system incorporated with an exterior rearview mirror according to claim 1, wherein said module of lights is in an oval square, or strap shape as pattern I.

8. A signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide range rearview mirror of claim 1, wherein the module of the signal and safety lights with two bulbs extended further to the front cover in strap shape is pattern Ia.

9. The signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide range rearview mirror of claim 1 with module of signal and safety lights in strap shape mounted to the lower part of the front cover of the mirror as pattern 1b and the said module mounting onto the upper part of the front cover as pattern 1c.

10. A signal and safety light system incorporated with an exterior rearview mirror of claim 1 with signal light mounted to the edge cover housing and with one safety light in round shape mounted onto the front of the mirror as Pattern II.

11. A signal and safety light systems incorporated with exterior Rearview Mirror of claim 1 having two signal light outlets in round shape from one light source with one in a arrow image, mounted to the edge of mirror cover housing and one safety light in round shape mounted to the front mirror cover respectively as Pattern IIa.

12. A signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 wherein the two signal light outlets from one light source are in round shape with one arrow image, and two safety light outlets from one light source in front of the mirror cover in round shape Pattern IIb.

13. A signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 wherein the signal lights and safety lights are arranged in one module in strap shape mounting onto the center part, in variation, the lower part or the upper part of the front cover of the mirror as Pattern IIc.

14. A special designed signal and safety light system incorporated with the big size of Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 with one module of signal light and another module of signal and safety light in variations with one in round shape, oval shape and other in rectangle shape respectively mounted onto the edge cover mirror housing and the front cover mirror housing of the mirror invented for buses, trailers and other heavy vehicles as Pattern III.

15. A signal and safety light system of claim 1 incorporated with the conventional exterior flat rearview mirror or curve rearview mirror in various patterns for cars, vans, pickups, cruisers, buses, trailers, heavy vehicles and motorcycles and scooters is governed under this inventions.

16. The replica of the exterior Wide Range Rearview Mirrors of claim 1 with curvature mirror at the right side incorporated with signal and safety lights in various patterns is for the right side of the motor vehicles, motorcycles and scooters.

17. A created signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 a variation in design for the module in oval shape equally compartmentalizing for signal light and safety light mounting onto the front cover mirror housing of the rearview mirror as Pattern IV in three variation designs for motorcycles are reciprocally applicable to vehicles.

18. A signal and safety light system incorporated with the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 for motorcycles and scooters of which the created wide angle mirror cover edge is increased to at least 160 degrees for greater visibility from the rear.

19. A side curvature Mirror created by separating the ¼

portion of curvature mirror from the Wide Range Rearview Mirror of claim 1 as an independent piece of curvature side mirror for sticking respectively onto the edge of the left side and the right side of the existing flat rearview mirror.