Mirror device for vehicle

• US 8,568,006 B2
• Filed: 11/23/2011
• Issued: 10/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Inventors: Asai, Hiroto
• Primary Examiner(s): Santiago, Mariceli
• Application Number:
  US13/303,491
• Publication Number:
  US 20120134166A1
• Time in Patent Office: 706 Days
• Field of Search: 362/494, 362/135, 362/508, 362/512, 362/523, 362/545, 362546-549
• US Class Current: 362/494
• 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 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators

Abstract

Arrangement accuracy of a transmission member with respect to an exposure hole is increased. In a door mirror device for a vehicle, a turn lamp is assembled to a bracket, a visor rim, and a visor cover, and an exposure portion of a lamp lens of the turn lamp is exposed by an exposure hole of a lower visor cover. As an anchor plate of the lower visor cover is inserted into an anchoring hole of the lamp lens and a fitting column of the lamp lens is inserted into a fitting hole of the lower visor cover, the lamp lens is positioned in the lower visor cover. Therefore, the accuracy precision of the exposure portion with respect to the exposure hole can be increased, thereby enhancing the appearance of a gap between the exposure portion and the periphery of the exposure hole.

Claims

1. A mirror device for a vehicle, comprising:

an accommodation body that accommodates a mirror of a vehicle in a state where a mirror surface of the mirror is exposed;

a covering member that is assembled at the accommodation body, is provided with an exposure hole, and covers the accommodation body on a back surface side of the mirror;

a transmission member that is positioned at the covering member and is exposed from the exposure hole; and

a light-emitting member that is disposed at an inner side of the transmission member, a light emitted by the light-emitting member transmitting through the transmission member,

wherein the transmission member is assembled at the accommodation body, an assemble-position of the transmission member with respect to the accommodation body being adjustable, and

wherein the transmission member is assembled at the covering member such that the position of the transmission member relative to the exposure hole in the covering member is affixed.

2. The mirror device for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein:

a transmission member side positioning section is provided at the transmission member, and a covering member side positioning section is provided at the covering member; and

the transmission member is positioned at the covering member by the transmission member side positioning section and the covering member side positioning section being assembled with each other.

3. The mirror device for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein:

an engaging portion is provided at the covering member, and an engaged portion is provided at the accommodation body;

a transmission member side positioning section is provided at the transmission member, and a covering member side positioning section is provided at the covering member.

4. The mirror device for a vehicle of claim 2, wherein:

the transmission member side positioning section includes a first positioned portion and a second positioned portion, and the covering member side positioning section includes a first positioning portion and a second positioning portion; and

the transmission member is positioned at the covering member by the first positioned portion and the first positioning portion being assembled with each other and the second positioned portion and the second positioning portion being assembled with each other.

5. The mirror device for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein:

the covering member and the accommodation body are assembled by an assembling member, an adjustment hole is formed at the transmission member, and the assembling member penetrates through the adjustment hole, and a dimension of the adjustment hole is formed so as to be larger than a dimension of a penetration portion of the assembling member.

6. A mirror device for a vehicle, comprising:

an accommodation body that accommodates a mirror of a vehicle in a state where a mirror surface of the mirror is exposed;

a covering member that is assembled at the accommodation body, is provided with an exposure hole, and covers the accommodation body on a back surface side of the mirror;

a transmission member that is positioned at the covering member, the transmission member including an exposure portion which is exposed from the exposure hole; and

a light-emitting member that is disposed at an inner side of the transmission member, a light emitted by the light-emitting member transmitting through the transmission member,

wherein the transmission member is fixedly positioned to the covering member such that a gap is formed between an entire peripheral edge portion of the exposure hole and the exposure portion.