BLIND SPOT MIRROR

• US 20110051268A1
• Filed: 09/03/2009
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Patrick Martin
• Original Assignee: Patrick Martin
• Inventors: MARTIN, PATRICK
• Application Number:
  US12/553,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20110051268A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/846
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/062 with remote control for adjusting position B60R1/0607 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/081 avoiding blind spots, e.g. by using a side-by-side association of mirrors

Abstract

A new blind spot mirror comprising a bifurcated mirror, allows one portion of a mirror to remain in the normal driving mode while concurrently allowing a blind spot portion to be transitioned to a position where the blind spot area can be viewed. The transition from regular viewing to blind spot viewing can be triggered by manual and/or automatic means. An alternate embodiment of the present invention comprises a mirror assembly with one mirror face affixed back-to-back with another mirror face. One face is used for normal driving mode and the other face is angled to capture the blind spot area. Transition (rotation) of the blind spot mirror face into viewing position may be triggered by manual or automatic means.

In another embodiment of the invention, a flexible mirror face is included over the mirror portion and the blind spot portion to disguise the parting between the two portions.

Claims

1. A rear view mirror for a vehicle, capable of selectively viewing a blind spot area, comprising;

A mirror portion that is bifurcated between a part of said mirror portion reversibly moveable between a normal viewing position and a blind spot viewing position, and another part of said mirror portion that remains in a normal viewing position;

A trigger, subject to activation, for initiating the movement of a part of said mirror portion from a normal viewing position to a blind spot viewing position; and

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A driver for driving a part of said mirror portion from a normal viewing position to a blind spot viewing.

2. The mirror as in claim 1, where deactivation of said trigger allows said mirror portion to return to a normal viewing position from a blind spot viewing position.

3. The mirror as in claim 1, where said trigger is activated manually.

4. The mirror as in claim 1, where said trigger is activated automatically.

5. The mirror as in claim 1 where the mirror portion includes a flexible mirror face.

6. A rear view mirror for a vehicle, capable of selectively viewing a blind spot area, comprising;

A mirror portion that is bifurcated between a part of said mirror portion moveable between a normal viewing position and a blind spot viewing position, and another part of said mirror portion that remains in a normal viewing position;

A trigger, subject to activation, for initiating the movement of a part of said mirror portion from a normal viewing position to a blind spot viewing position, and where once said trigger is deactivated allowing said part of said mirror portion to return to a normal viewing position from a blind spot viewing position;

A driver for driving said part of the mirror portion from a normal viewing position to a blind spot viewing position.

7. The mirror as in claim 6, where said driver is comprised of a solenoid or a servomechanism.

8. The mirror as in claim 6 where the mirror portion includes a flexible mirror face.

9. A rear view mirror for a vehicle capable of selectively viewing a blind spot area, comprising;

A mirror assembly comprising a regular face and a blind spot face, where said mirror assembly is rotatably connected to a mirror body, allowing said regular face to be displayed to the operator of the vehicle, or in the alternate said blind spot face to be displayed to the operator of the vehicle;

A drive for rotating said mirror assembly between a regular viewing position and a blind spot viewing position;

A trigger, subject to activation, causing said drive to rotate said mirror assembly.

10. The mirror as in claim 9, where said trigger is subject to repeated activations causing said mirror assembly to rotate to a new viewing position upon each of such activations.

11. The mirror as in claim 9, where said trigger is activated manually.

12. The mirror as in claim 9, where said trigger is activated automatically.

13. The mirror as in claim 9 where the mirror portion includes a flexible mirror face.