Mounting Construction for an Outside Mirror Unit

• US 20100224753A1
• Filed: 11/14/2008
• Published: 09/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. (Flex, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. (Flex, Ltd.)
• Inventors: van Stiphout, Paulus Gerardus Maria, Brouwer, Stefan Frits
• Granted Patent: US 8,534,636 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/476
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/072 for adjusting the mirror relative to its housing

Abstract

Mounting construction for mounting an adjustment instrument to a carrier for an outside mirror unit, comprising first mounting parts on the adjustment instrument and second mounting parts on the carrier, which mounting parts guide the adjustment instrument from a first position to a second position in a direction along the carrier, the mounting parts cooperating with each other in the second position to fix movement of the adjustment instrument relative to the carrier in a direction transverse to the carrier, while in the first position the adjustment instrument and the carrier are clear of each other.

Claims

1. A mounting construction for mounting an adjustment instrument to a carrier for an outside mirror unit, comprising first mounting parts on the adjustment instrument and second mounting parts on the carrier, which mounting parts guide the adjustment instrument from a first position to a second position in a direction along the carrier, the mounting parts cooperating with each other in the second position to fix movement of the adjustment instrument relative to the carrier in a direction transverse to the carrier, while in the first position the adjustment instrument and the carrier are clear of each other.

2. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the mounting parts comprises a run-on surface.

3. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein the first and second mounting parts comprise a snap connection.

4. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein the first and second mounting parts comprise a clamped connection.

5. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein the first and second mounting parts comprise a glued joint.

6. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment device is moved from the first position to the second position through a rotation movement.

7. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment device is moved from the first position to the second position through a translation movement.

8. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein the carrier is surrounded by a mirror cap.

9. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment instrument is provided with a reflecting surface.

10. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein the carrier is surrounded by a mirror cap and a reflecting surface is mounted on the adjustment instrument and wherein the outer edge of the reflecting surface after mounting on the adjustment instrument is so closely adjacent to the inside of the mirror cap that the adjustment instrument cannot move from the second position to the first position after said mounting.

11. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment instrument is provided with at least one projection which in the second position cooperates with a projection on the carrier.

12. The mounting construction according to claim 11, wherein the two cooperating projections in the second position prevent an axial displacement along axis A of the adjustment instrument relative to the carrier.

13. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein a first force required to displace the adjustment instrument from the first position to the second position is less than a second force required to displace the adjustment instrument from the second position to the first position.

14. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein the displacement of the adjustment instrument from the first position to the second position brings about an electrical connection between the adjustment instrument and the carrier.

15. The mounting construction according to claim 1, wherein displacement of the adjustment instrument from the first position to the second position locks a plug element fitted to the adjustment instrument in its position.

16. An outside mirror unit comprising a mirror cap which surrounds a carrier, an adjustment instrument and a mounting construction for mounting the adjustment instrument to the carrier, the adjustment instrument being provided with a mirror, the mounting construction comprising cooperating parts on the adjustment instrument and the carrier, the mounting construction being in a second position in which the adjustment instrument is fixed with respect to the carrier in a direction transverse to the carrier.

17. The outside mirror unit according to claim 16, wherein the mirror is enclosed by the mirror cap in circumferential direction.