Adjustable side view mirror apparatus

• US 10,604,074 B1
• Filed: 09/23/2016
• Issued: 03/31/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emmett Curry
• Original Assignee: Emmett Curry
• Inventors: Curry, Emmett
• Primary Examiner(s): Tallman, Robert E.
• Application Number:
  US15/274,490
• Time in Patent Office: 1,285 Days
• Field of Search: 359841-844, 359846, 359850, 359854, 359871, 359872
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/072 for adjusting the mirror relative to its housing
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/081 avoiding blind spots, e.g. by using a side-by-side association of mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/0825 the reflecting element being a flexible sheet or membrane, e.g. for varying the focus flexible mirrors for cosmetic use A45D42/24
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/10 with curved faces
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 7/182 for mirrors

Abstract

An adjustable side view mirror apparatus including a casing having a front edge and a pair of mirrors disposed within the front edge. The pair of mirrors includes a flattened upper mirror and a convexly curved lower mirror. An attachment arm is attached to each of the casing and an exterior surface of a vehicle. Each of an upper servo motor and a lower servo motor of a pair of servo motors is disposed within the casing and rotatably attached to each of the upper mirror and the lower mirror, respectively. Each of an upper mirror control and a lower mirror control of a base unit is in operational communication with the upper servo motor and the lower servo motor, respectively, and configured to activate each of the upper servo motor and the lower servo motor, respectively, to adjust each of the upper mirror and the lower mirror, respectively.

Claims

1. An adjustable side view mirror apparatus comprising:

a dome-shaped casing having a continuous front edge and a pair of elongated substantially rectangular mirrors, each elongated mirror of the pair of elongated mirrors being disposed within the front edge such that the mirrors are elongated horizontally across the casing, the pair of mirrors comprising a flattened upper mirror and a convexly curved lower mirror, the lower mirror being convexly curved between opposed lateral edges and straight extending perpendicularly between top and bottom edges of the lower mirror, the top edge of the lower mirror being horizontally aligned with a lower edge of the top mirror;

an inner plate disposed within the dome-shaped casing behind the pair of mirrors, the inner plate continuously disposed from a top portion of the dome-shaped casing to a bottom portion of the dome-shaped casing;

an attachment arm having a proximal end attached to the dome-shaped casing and a distal end attached to one of a right side of an exterior surface of a vehicle and a left side of the exterior surface of the vehicle;

a pair of servo motors comprising an upper servo motor and a lower servo motor, each of the upper servo motor and the lower servo motor disposed on a front surface of the inner plate and rotatably attached to each of the flattened upper mirror and the convexly curved lower mirror, respectively; and

a base unit having a pair of controls comprising an upper mirror control and a lower mirror control, the base unit disposed on an interior surface of a driver'"'"'s side door of the vehicle;

wherein the upper mirror control is in operational communication with the upper servo motor, and the lower mirror control is in operational communication with the lower servo motor;

wherein each of the upper mirror control and the lower mirror control is configured to activate each of the upper servo motor and the lower servo motor, respectively, to rotatably adjust each of the flattened upper mirror and the convexly curved lower mirror, respectively, within the front edge of the dome-shaped casing.