Adjusting device for a motor vehicle mirror with contactor

• US 6,565,221 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2001
• Issued: 05/20/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
• Original Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
• Inventors: Guttenberger, Richard, Seichter, Werner
• Primary Examiner(s): SIKDER, MOHAMMAD YUNUS
• Application Number:
  US09/989,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20020063978A1
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• Field of Search: 359/877, 359/876, 359/872, 359/871, 359/874, 248/476, 248/475.1, 248/477, 248/478, 248/479, 74/891.8, 74/891.9, 745/021
• US Class Current: 359/877
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/07 by electrically powered actuators
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/072 for adjusting the mirror relative to its housing

Abstract

Adjusting device for the outside mirror of a motor vehicle, comprising a drive housing, on which is mounted a mirror glass carrier that is mounted by means of a central ball and cap bearing and that is provided with intersecting toothed strips, chains or the like, which, enveloping the shell-like drive housing, are in engagement with output toothed gears of two drive motors, disposed in the drive housing, and comprising an electric contactor for the mirror glass to supply electric energy to heat the mirror, dim the mirror or the like, wherein the contact connecting lines are guided through the central axis of the ball and cap bearing.

Claims

1. An adjusting device for the outside mirror of a motor vehicle, the adjusting device comprising:

a drive housing;

a mirror glass carrier;

a central ball and cap bearing for mounting the mirror glass carrier to the drive housing, the ball and cap bearing having a central axis;

intersecting toothed strips enveloping the shell-like drive housing, the tooth stripes in engagement with output toothed gears of two drive motors, disposed in the drive housing;

an electric contactor for the mirror glass to supply electric energy, the electric contactor including contact connecting lines guided through the central axis of the ball and cap bearing.

2. The adjusting device, as claimed in claim 1, further comprising;

At least one lateral plug member on the drive housing;

aligned passages defined in the ball and cap bearing;

a tube molded to the drive housing, the tube ending with the shell-like structure of the drive housing and the cap preferably upstream of the aligned passages, and in which the contact connecting lines are guided so that they are connected to the at least one lateral plug member.

3. The adjusting device, as claimed in claim 2, wherein the tube in connected to the drive housing so that the tube and the drive housing are a single piece.

4. The adjusting device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the contact connecting lines are provided with flexible spring contact lugs which rest preferably against complementary contacts on the mirror glass.