Housing structure of door mirror

• US 8,197,107 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2010
• Issued: 06/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Original Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Inventors: Suzuki, Kentaro
• Primary Examiner(s): Ton, Anabel
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALLEN, DANIELLE NICOLE
• Application Number:
  US12/939,513
• Publication Number:
  US 20110205649A1
• Time in Patent Office: 586 Days
• Field of Search: 362/501, 362/492, 362/494, 362/135, 362140-142, 362/540, 362/541, 362544-547, 362516-518, 362/464, 362/234, 362/241, 362/251, 362/503, 362/506, 362/459, 359/841, 359/843, 359/874, 359/838, 359/876, 359/877, 359/881, 359/871, 248/480, 248/487, 340/468, 296/1.11
• US Class Current: 362/501
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/2665 on rear-view mirrors lighting devices for vehicle interior on or for rear-view mirrors B60Q3/258
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/06 mounted on vehicle exterior B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators

Abstract

The present invention provides a housing structure of a door mirror in which a fixed-side housing portion is reliably crimped to a fixing-side housing portion on the surface side of a housing. In the housing structure of a door mirror, a boss portion and a contact piece are located on the deeper side than first and second butting portions located on the surface side, and a projection portion is located farther than a screwing portion in a positional relationship in the vertical direction (an arrow Y direction) with respect to a horizontal plane passing through the first butting portion. Therefore, when the boss portion (first mounting portion) of an upper housing (fixing-side housing portion) and the contact piece (second mounting portion) of a lamp assy (fixed-side housing portion) are fixed by a screw, a screw tightening force can be concentrated on the projection portion as shown by an arrow A, and this force can be made to act on the first and second butting portions as shown by an arrow B.

Claims

1. A housing structure of a door mirror for an automobile, the housing structure comprising:

a cup shaped housing having first and second housing portions;

the first housing portion having a first butting portion provided on an outer edge surface side of the first housing portion and a first mounting portion provided on an inner surface of the first housing portion, the first mounting portion having a boss that receives a screw and a boss projection portion formed at a free end of the boss; and

the second housing portion having a second butting portion provided on an outer edge surface side of the second housing portion and contacting the first butting portion of the first housing portion, and the second housing portion having a second mounting portion provided opposite the first mounting portion of the first housing portion so as to be coupled to the first mounting portion by the screw, wherein

the boss of the first mounting portion is provided with a screwing portion into which the screw is screwable in a substantially horizontal direction at a position spaced in a vertical direction from a horizontal plane passing through the first butting portion; and

the first mounting portion and the second mounting portion are coupled by the screw through the boss projection portion, wherein the boss projection portion is located farther from the horizontal plane in the vertical direction than the screwing portion.

2. The housing structure of a door mirror according to claim 1, wherein

the first housing portion comprises an upper housing located on the upper side of the cup-shaped housing and a lower housing located on the lower side of the cup-shaped housing, and the second housing portion comprising a lamp assembly located between the upper housing and the lower housing of the first housing portion.

3. The housing structure of a door mirror according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the upper housing and the lower housing defines a fixing-side housing portion, and wherein the lamp assembly defines a fixed-side housing portion.

4. The housing structure of a door mirror according to claim 1, wherein

a butting projection portion is formed on either one of the first butting portion and the second butting portion.