VEHICULAR VIEWING DEVICE

• US 20160229344A1
• Filed: 02/03/2016
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Inventors: ASAI, Hiroto, ICHIKAWA, Takashi, IWATSUKI, Masakazu
• Application Number:
  US15/014,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20160229344A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/06 mounted on vehicle exterior B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/072 for adjusting the mirror relative to its housing

Abstract

In a vehicle door mirror device, an inner wall of a mirror holder is supported by an inner support face of an inner support section of a support pivot, and a drive rod is displaced to pivot the mirror holder and a mirror. Note that a limiting recessed portion of the inner support section is disposed across a center axis line at the opposite side from the inner support face, and has a larger dimension about the center axis line than that of the inner support face. Input from the inner wall to the inner support section of displacement force of the drive rod toward the vehicle rear is limited by the limiting recessed portion. Thus, when the drive rod starts to be displaced toward the vehicle rear, the inner wall can be pivoted with respect to the inner support section, and the mirror can be pivoted smoothly.

Claims

1. A vehicular viewing device comprising:

a support body that is supported at a vehicle body side and that is provided with a support face;

a viewing means that is provided, at a pivot center side, with a pivot face supported by the support face so as to be capable of pivoting, and that aids viewing by an occupant of the vehicle;

a displacement body that is connected to the viewing means and that is displaced such that the viewing means is pivoted and a viewing direction of the occupant aided by the viewing means is changed; and

a limiting cavity that is provided at at least one of the support body or the viewing means, that is disposed at an opposite side from the support face or the pivot face across a center axis line passing through a pivot center of the viewing means parallel to a displacement direction of the displacement body, that has a dimension about the center axis line at least equal to the dimension of the support face or the pivot face, and that limits input from the viewing means to the support body of displacement force of the displacement body.

2. The vehicular viewing device of claim 1, wherein

the limiting cavity is disposed at a displacement body side of the center axis line, or at an opposite side of the center axis line to the displacement body.

3. The vehicular viewing device of claim 1, wherein the limiting cavity is a recessed portion.

4. The vehicular viewing device of claim 1, wherein the support body is configured to move.

5. The vehicular viewing device of claim 1, wherein

a maximum dimension of the limiting cavity about the center axis line is at least equal to the dimension of the support face or the pivot face.

6. The vehicular viewing device of claim 1, wherein

the limiting cavity is disposed at an entire side of the support face or the pivot face about the center axis line.

7. The vehicular viewing device of claim 1, wherein

the limiting cavity extends in a circumferential direction centered on the pivot center of the viewing means and passing through the center axis line.

8. The vehicular viewing device of claim 1, wherein

the limiting cavity is inclined with respect to a circumferential direction centered on the pivot center of the viewing means and passing through the center axis line.

9. The vehicular viewing device of claim 1, wherein

the limiting cavity, and the support face or the pivot face, are disposed along a circumferential direction centered on the pivot center of the viewing means and passing through the center axis line.

10. The vehicular viewing device of claim 1, wherein

a plurality of the limiting cavities are provided at at least one of the support body or the viewing means.