Door mirror

• US 8,456,292 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2008
• Issued: 06/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murakami Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Fukasawa, Yosuke, Sugamoto, Tatsuya, Suzuki, Akifumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tweel, Jr., John A
• Application Number:
  US12/738,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20100253500A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,729 Days
• Field of Search: 340/475, 340/472, 359/850, 359/871, 362/464, 362/494
• US Class Current: 340/475
• 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: B60Q 1/323 on or for doors illuminated exterior door handles B60Q1/2669; illuminated door locks E05B17/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/38 using immovably-mounted light sources, e.g. fixed flashing lamps
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators

Abstract

A door mirror includes a turn signal lamp for indicating a traveling direction; a foot lamp; and a housing that houses the turn signal lamp and the foot lamp, wherein the turn signal lamp and the foot lamp are provided in the housing such that the turn signal lamp and the foot lamp are provided with outer lenses lying adjacent to each other such that light based on a turning on of one lamp is guided to an outer lens of the other lamp.

Claims

1. A door mirror for a vehicle, the door mirror comprising:

a body;

a turn signal lamp for indicating a traveling direction, the turn signal lamp comprising;

a turn signal lamp housing held inside the body,

a turn signal lamp outer lens exposed to the outside of the body, and

a jointing piece made of a transparent material and provided between the turn signal lamp housing and the turn signal lamp outer lens to integrate the turn signal lamp housing and the turn signal lamp outer lens; and

a foot lamp comprising a foot lamp outer lens,

wherein each of the turn signal lamp and the foot lamp is installed in the body as an assembly adjacent to each other with the connection of the jointing piece at a lower end of the turn signal lamp to the foot lamp outer lens so that the turn signal lamp outer lens and the foot lamp outer lens are formed as a successively continuous transparent member such that light based on a turning on of one lamp is guided to the outer lens of the other lamp.

2. The door mirror according to claim 1, wherein the turn signal lamp is located in front of and below the body, and the foot lamp is located behind the turn signal lamp.

3. The door mirror according to claim 1, wherein:

the turn signal lamp housing and the turn signal lamp outer lens are integrated with the jointing piece formed by injecting transparent resin material to a butt contact part of an outer peripheral edge of the turn signal lamp housing and an outer peripheral edge of the turn signal lamp outer lens,

a step part is formed at a lower side of the jointing piece,

a rib piece protruding upward is formed at an upper surface of the foot lamp outer lens,

an outside diameter side end edge is formed extending to an outside diameter side of the foot lamp outer lens, and

the foot lamp is installed to the body such that the outside diameter side end edge is butted to the step part of the jointing piece.

4. The door mirror according to claim 3, wherein the turn signal lamp is located in front of and below the body, and the foot lamp is located behind the turn signal lamp.