Door mirror

• US 8,041,209 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2009
• Issued: 10/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Original Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Inventors: Watanabe, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): FULLER, RODNEY EVAN
• Application Number:
  US12/619,743
• Publication Number:
  US 20100196000A1
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 396/429
• US Class Current: 396/429
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/12 Mirror assemblies combined with other articles, e.g. clocks
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/04 Mounting of cameras operative during drive; Arrangement of controls thereof relative to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2001/1253 with cameras, video cameras or video screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0033 Rear-view mirrors

Abstract

A door mirror which includes a camera for checking the side of a vehicle which is in a blind spot of a driver, has a door mirror body having a through hole formed for lens side part of the camera to be inserted therein, and a camera cover having an opening part for exposing the lens part formed, and the camera cover has the first abutting surface which abuts on the outer surface of the door mirror body with elasticity.

Claims

1. A door mirror, which includes a camera for checking a side of a vehicle which is in a blind spot of a driver, comprising:

a door mirror body having a through-hole formed for lens part side of the camera to be inserted therein; and

a camera cover which is attached to the door mirror body and having an opening that exposes the lens part, wherein

the camera cover has a first abutting surface that elastically deforms to abut an outer surface of the door mirror body, and wherein

the camera cover has a slot portion into which an edge part of the door mirror body that forms the through-hole enters, and a second abutting surface which elastically abuts an inner surface of the door mirror body and is formed in a wall surface of the slot portion such that the door mirror body is sandwiched by the first abutting surface and the second abutting surface.

2. The door mirror according to claim 1, further comprising a bracket which is disposed inside the door mirror body for fixing the camera to the door mirror body, wherein

the second abutting surface is pressed onto the inner surface of the door mirror body by the bracket.