Outer mirror device for vehicle

• US 20070035865A1
• Filed: 10/13/2006
• Published: 02/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Inventors: Ohashi, Masatsugu
• Application Number:
  US11/580,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20070035865A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/877
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/072 for adjusting the mirror relative to its housing

Abstract

In an outer mirror device for a vehicle, an electrically-driven retracting unit, a mirror surface angle adjusting unit, a mirror surface angle detecting sensor, a foot lamp device, a heater, and an ECU which is a control device, which are respectively internal mechanisms, are disposed within a door mirror visor which covers a reverse surface side of a mirror and between the mirror and which a space is formed. A wire harness led into the door mirror visor is only two power source wires and three signal wires connected to the ECU. As compared with a structure in which the ECU is disposed outside of the door mirror visor, a number of wires can be greatly reduced.

Claims

1. An outer mirror device for a vehicle comprising:

a mirror visor which covers a back surface of a mirror for rearward viewing to form a space between the mirror and the mirror visor;

a mirror surface angle adjusting mechanism which has a first case and an electric motor accommodated in the first case, which is mounted to the mirror within the space, and which is able to adjust a mirror surface angle of the mirror by driving force of the electric motor;

a control device having a second case disposed within the space, and a control substrate which is accommodated within the second case and at which is provided a control circuit supplying power to the electric motor on the basis of an operation signal;

a power supplying terminal provided at the control substrate and passing through the second case; and

a connector portion provided integrally with the second case, and fixed to the first case to connect the power supplying terminal to the electric motor.

2. The outer mirror device for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the mirror surface angle adjusting mechanism has a rotating member rotating due to rotation of the electric motor, and a drive rod which moves rectilinearly due to rotation of the rotating member and which changes the mirror surface angle of the mirror, and wherein

a mirror surface angle detecting sensor, which detects one of a position of the drive rod and a rotational position of the rotating member, is provided within the second case.

3. The outer mirror device for a vehicle of claim 2, wherein the mirror surface angle detecting sensor is provided at the control substrate.

4. The outer mirror device for a vehicle of claim 3, wherein the mirror surface angle detecting sensor detects, in a non-contact manner, the one of the position of the drive rod and the rotational position of the rotating member.

5. The outer mirror device for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the first case and the second case are integral.