Outside mirror apparatus for vehicle

• US 7,387,396 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2006
• Issued: 06/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Misato Industries Company Limited (Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Ichikoh Industries Limited (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Honda, Keisuke, Kawanishi, Joichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Shafer; Ricky D
• Application Number:
  US11/594,226
• Publication Number:
  US 20070103921A1
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• Field of Search: 359/838, 359/871, 359/872, 362/494
• US Class Current: 359/871
• 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

Abstract

A mirror housing includes a temporary fixing member that is formed of a plate having a groove. An additional part includes a temporary fixing member that includes an insertion portion engaged with the groove to position and guide the additional part in a setting direction and a first direction, and a contacting portion that contacts the plate to position and guide the additional part in a second direction.

Claims

1. An outside mirror apparatus for a vehicle comprising:

a mirror housing that includes a first fixing member and a second fixing member; and

an attachment that includes

a third fixing member engaged with the first fixing member to temporarily fix the attachment to the mirror housing; and

a fourth fixing member engaged with the second fixing member to firmly fix the attachment to the mirror housing, wherein

when the attachment is temporarily fixed to the mirror housing, the first and third fixing members position and guide the attachment in a setting direction in which the attachment is set on the mirror housing and in first and second directions substantially perpendicular to the setting direction and substantially perpendicular to each other,

wherein one of the first and third fixing members includes a plate substantially parallel to the setting direction with a groove that tapers in the setting direction, and

the other one of the first and third fixing members includes

an insertion portion that engages with the groove and, positions and guides the attachment in the setting direction and the first direction; and

a contacting portion that contacts the plate, and positions and guides the attachment in the second direction, and

wherein the mirror housing includes a garnish having an opening,

a part of the attachment is exposed from the opening, and

the other one of the first and third fixing member further includes a sealing-contacting portion integral with the insertion portion that indirectly contacts an edge of the opening via a sealing member.

2. The outside mirror apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the first fixing member is located at any one of an edge of outside of the mirror housing and an edge of outside of the attachment, and

the third fixing member is located at another one of the edge of the outside of the mirror housing and the edge of the outside of the attachment.

3. The outside mirror apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a contacting surface of the contacting portion is inclined.