Integrated inside mirror assembly of vehicle

• US 9,623,801 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2014
• Issued: 04/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Park, Sae Hyun, Lim, Keun Sig, Jeon, Hyun Min, Geum, Woo Youn, Yu, Byung Seob
• Primary Examiner(s): Shafer, Ricky D
• Application Number:
  US14/570,055
• Publication Number:
  US 20160016518A1
• Time in Patent Office: 855 Days
• Field of Search: 359871, 359872, 248549
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/04 mounted inside vehicle B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/12 Mirror assemblies combined with other articles, e.g. clocks
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2001/1223 with sensors or transducers
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2001/1261 with antennae

Abstract

An integrated inside mirror assembly for a vehicle may have a stay fixed to a windshield glass of the vehicle and an inside mirror coupled to the stay, in which the stay may include a sub stay coupled to a rear surface of the inside mirror, a base attached to an upper end of the windshield glass and to which a rain sensor is mounted, a mount slidably assembled at an outside of the base and coupled to the sub stay through a ball joint, a stay cover coupled to the mount while surrounding the mount and attached to the upper end of the windshield glass, and an antenna cover assembled at one side of the mount and to which an antenna member is mounted.

Claims

1. An integrated inside mirror assembly for a vehicle having a stay fixed to a windshield glass of the vehicle and an inside mirror coupled to the stay, wherein the stay comprises:

a sub stay coupled to a rear surface of the inside mirror;

a base attached to an upper end of the windshield glass and to which a rain sensor is mounted;

a mount slidably assembled at an outside of the base and coupled to the sub stay through a ball joint;

a stay cover coupled to the mount while surrounding the mount and attached to the upper end of the windshield glass; and

an antenna cover assembled at one side of the mount and to which an antenna member is mounted,

wherein first position guides vertically protrude from a lower surface of a tip end of the base, for setting of an assembly position of the mount, and the first position guides form a predetermined distance between an upper surface of the mount and a lower surface of the base.

2. The integrated inside mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein the base includes a sensor hole into which the rain sensor is inserted, and a side coupling boss protrudes from a side surface for coupling of a spring clip supporting the rain sensor inserted into the sensor hole.

3. The integrated inside mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein mount guides corresponding to inclined surfaces are provided on opposite side surfaces of a tip end of the base to prevent separation of the slidably assembled mount, and base guides having inclined surfaces corresponding to the mount guides are formed in the mount.

4. The integrated inside mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein second position guides protrude outwards from opposite side surfaces of a rear end of the base, for setting of the assembly position of the mount, and the second position guides stop while contacting ends of guide rails formed at a rear end of the mount to determine a sliding assembly position of the mount.

5. The integrated inside mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein a first coupling hole is formed at one end of the base, for bolt coupling of the base to the mount, and the mount has a second hole overlapping the first coupling hole.

6. The integrated inside mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein a plurality of holders are formed on opposite side surfaces of the mount, for coupling to the stay cover, the stay cover has a first cover at one of left and right sides thereof and a second cover at the other of the left and right sides thereof such that a plurality of coupling parts inserted into the holders protrude from an inside of the stay cover.

7. The integrated inside mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein the mount has a connector bracket on one of left and right side surfaces thereof, and a connector for electrical connection of the inside mirror is assembled in the connector bracket.

8. The integrated inside mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein the mount includes a first wire support for supporting an electric wire of the inside mirror and a second wire support for supporting a signal wire of the antenna member on a lower surface thereof.

9. The integrated inside mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein the antenna member is an electronic toll collection system (ETCS) antenna for an ETCS.

10. The integrated inside mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein the stay cover includes a first cover at one of left and right sides thereof and a second cover at the other of the left and right sides thereof, which are coupled to each other, wherein a joint through-hole through which the ball joint of the mount passes is formed at a portion of the stay cover where the first cover and the second cover are jointed to each other, and a wiring hole through which the electric wire of the inside mirror and the signal wire of the antenna member passes is formed on a rear side of the joint through-hole.

11. The integrated inside mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein a seam prevention pad to which the windshield glass is adhered is attached to a periphery of the stay cover.

12. The integrated inside mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein the rain sensor is a defog sensor embedded rain sensor having a defog sensor at one side thereof, and the stay cover has an air circulation hole for introducing and discharging air for an operation of the defog sensor.