Glare reduction rear view mirror assembly

• US 6,886,950 B1
• Filed: 04/15/2004
• Issued: 05/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Breck Bullock, Lynwood Bullock
• Original Assignee: Breck Bullock, Lynwood Bullock
• Inventors: Bullock, Lynwood, Bullock, Breck
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Thong Q
• Application Number:
  US10/823,903
• Time in Patent Office: 383 Days
• Field of Search: 359601-614, 359871-879, 359838-889
• US Class Current: 359/605
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/087 with remote or automatic control means

Abstract

A glare reduction rear view mirror assembly for eliminating the glare from the headlights of vehicles coming up from behind the user'"'"'s vehicle. The glare reduction rear view mirror assembly includes a frame having back, top, bottom, and side walls, and also having an open front; and also includes bracket members being attached to the frame and being adapted to fasten to a vehicle; and further includes a transparent pane being disposed over the open front of the frame; and also includes a mirror pane being pivotally disposed in the frame behind the transparent pane; and further includes an assembly for pivoting the mirror pane longitudinally.

Claims

1. A glare reduction rear view mirror assembly comprising:

a frame having back, top, bottom, and side walls, and also having an open front, said back wall of said frame being slanted inwardly from said top wall to said bottom wall thereof for effecting an aerodynamic appearance, said frame further including a support body being attached to an inner side of said back wall and near said top wall of said frame and protruding forwardly of said back wall and having a recessed portion disposed in a front side thereof;

bracket members being attached to said frame and being adapted to fasten to a vehicle;

a transparent pane being disposed over said open front of said frame;

a mirror pane being pivotally disposed in said frame behind said transparent pane, said mirror pane being pivotally attached at a bottom end thereof to said bottom wall of said frame with a top end of said mirror pane capable of moving forwardly and rearwardly in said frame to effectively re-impose an image displayed in said mirror pane upon said transparent pane; and

a means for pivoting said mirror pane longitudinally includes including a bracket being attached to a back side of said mirror pane near said top end thereof, and also including a drive member being pivotally attached to said bracket, and further including an actuator being attached over said recessed portion of said support body and being attached to said drive member, and also including a spring member being disposed between said support body and said mirror pane for biasing said top end of said mirror pane toward said transparent pane.

2. A glare reduction rear view mirror assembly as described in claim 1, wherein said actuator is a solenoid being attached with a mounting bracket to said support body, and also being attached to said drive member for urging said top end of said mirror pane away from said transparent pane, and further being connected with wires to a switch for the energizing thereof.

3. A glare reduction rear view mirror assembly as described in claim 1, wherein said actuator is a flexible diaphragm being in contactable relationship to said drive member for urging said top end of said mirror pane away from said transparent pane, said flexible diaphragm covering said recessed portion in said support body thus creating an air chamber in said recessed portion.

4. A glare reduction rear view mirror assembly as described in claim 3, wherein said means for pivoting said mirror pane longitudinally also includes an air hose being in air communication to said air chamber and being adapted to be connected to an air suction device for removing air from said air chamber which urges said flexible diaphragm inwardly of said air chamber thus causing said drive member to move said top end of said mirror pane away from said transparent pane.