Device for adjusting automobile side view mirror

• US 5,122,910 A
• Filed: 11/28/1990
• Issued: 06/16/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Michael L. Polanyi, Thomas G. Polanyi
• Original Assignee: Michael L. Polanyi, Thomas G. Polanyi
• Inventors: Polanyi, Thomas G., Polanyi, Michael L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sugarman, Scott J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): RYAN, JAY
• Application Number:
  US07/620,350
• Time in Patent Office: 566 Days
• Field of Search: 350/612, 350/616, 350/626, 350/631, 350/632, 350/635, 359/865, 359/850
• US Class Current: 359/865
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/06 mounted on vehicle exterior B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence

Abstract

A device for adjusting a side view mirror of an automobile has an auxiliary mirror arranged on the side view mirror and having a reflective surface inclined relative to the reflective surface of the side view mirror so that when the driver sees an image of a target on the automobile body in the auxiliary mirror the line of sight of a driver looking in the side view mirror is directed toward a required blind spot area near the automobile.

Claims

1. A side view mirror assembly for an automobile, comprising a side view mirror;

and an auxiliary mirror attached to the side view mirror and having a reflective surface considerably smaller than that of the side view mirror and so inclined with respect to said side view mirror that it enables a driver of an automobile to see in said auxiliary mirror a target provided on said automobile and that when said target is seen by the driver in said auxiliary mirror the line of sight of said driver looking in the said view mirror is directed toward a required blind spot area near the automobile.

2. A device for adjusting a side view mirror of an automobile comprising a support for movably supporting a side view mirror relative to an automobile body;

and means for supporting said side view mirror turnably relative to said support between an adjusting position and a final position which bear a predetermined angular relationship to each other, so that when said side view mirror is in said adjusting position and said support is moved by a driver so that a target provided on an automobile body is seen by said driver to coincide with a marker provided on said side view mirror, said side view mirror can then be turned by the automobile driver to said final position in which a line of sight of the driver looking in said side view mirror is directed to a required blind spot area near the automobile.

3. A device as defined in claim 2;

and further comprising a second target positioned on the automobile body at a distance from the first mentioned target and such that when the driver of the automobile sees said second target in the auxiliary mirror he will see in the side view mirror a second selected area in the blind spot near his automobile.