DOOR MIRROR

• US 20100073949A1
• Filed: 06/04/2007
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Original Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Inventors: Sato, Yasuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,182,124 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/494
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/007 via a removable cap
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/247 for illuminating the close surroundings of the vehicle, e.g. to facilitate entry or exit for reverse drive B60Q1/22; by opening a side door B60Q1/323
• 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: B60Q 1/323 on or for doors illuminated exterior door handles B60Q1/2669; illuminated door locks E05B17/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators

Abstract

Light of an incorporated lamp illuminates the lower side of a side surface of a door of a vehicle. A rear end part of a lamp socket mounted with the lamp is exposed from a cylinder part of a lamp housing and projected from the lamp housing toward a holder/mirror assembly. Therefore, when replacing the lamp, the lamp socket can be found easily by simply removing the holder/mirror assembly, and the lamp can easily be extracted along with the lamp socket, to an operator side. Also, when attaching the lamp socket, high visibility of an opening part can be obtained because the opening part of the cylinder part is exposed to the holder/mirror assembly side in the lamp housing, thereby achieving a door mirror with extremely good workability of lamp replacement.

Claims

1. A door mirror fixed to a door of a vehicle and incorporating a lamp, the door mirror comprising:

a door mirror body fixed to the door and having an opening;

a mirror part detachably attached to close the opening;

a lamp housing provided within the door mirror body;

a lamp window provided in the door mirror body and emitting light of the lamp;

a lamp attachment opening part formed on the mirror part side of the lamp housing and exposed to the mirror part side; and

a lamp socket mounted in a rear part of the lamp and made detachable with respect to the lamp housing,

wherein a leading end part of the lamp socket has a lamp insertion port through which the lamp can be attached, and a rear end part of the lamp socket is exposed from the lamp attachment opening part and projected from the lamp housing toward the mirror part.

2. The door mirror according to claim 1, further comprising:

a partition plate disposed between the mirror part and the lamp housing; and

a socket observation window which is formed on the partition plate and through which the lamp socket can be inserted,

wherein the socket observation window is formed in a size that allows the insertion of at least two fingers thereto in order to hold the rear end part of the lamp socket with the fingers to remove the lamp socket.

3. The door mirror according to claim 1, wherein a cylinder part having the lamp attachment opening part is formed in the lamp housing, a flange part covering the cylinder part from the outside is formed in the lamp socket, and the lamp socket is mounted in the lamp housing by recess-and-projection fitting between an inner surface of the flange part and an outer surface of the cylinder part.

4. The door mirror according to claim 2, wherein a cylinder part having the lamp attachment opening part is formed in the lamp housing, a flange part covering the cylinder part from the outside is formed in the lamp socket, and the lamp socket is mounted in the lamp housing by recess-and-projection fitting between an inner surface of the flange part and an outer surface of the cylinder part.