Door mirror structure
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsYukihiro Moriyama, Atsushi Yakushinji
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Abstract
A door mirror structure comprises a door-mirror body portion, a mirror base having a tip-end portion fixed to the door-mirror body portion, and a drive unit to rotate the door-mirror body portion and the mirror base between a mirror-use position and a mirror-storage position. The drive unit is provided at the side door. The housing of the door-mirror body portion has a shape such that the door-mirror body portion taking the mirror-use position is not positioned in an area between a first imaginary line which connects a middle point between both eyes of a driver and an inner-end portion, in a vehicle width direction, of a rear face of the door-mirror body portion and a second imaginary line which connects the above-described middle point and a front end portion of a door glass.
Claims11
A door mirror structure of a side door of a vehicle, comprising:
- a door-mirror body portion provided with a mirror to obtain a rearward visual field of the vehicle and a housing holding the mirror;
- a mirror base having a tip-end portion fixed to the door-mirror body portion and a base-end portion provided away from the tip-end portion, the base-end portion being attached to the side door such that the door-mirror body portion and the mirror base is rotatable between a mirror-use position where the mirror is visible from a cabin inside and a mirror-storage position which is located on an inward side, in a vehicle width direction, of the mirror-use position;
- a drive unit to rotate the door-mirror body portion and the mirror base between the mirror-use position and the mirror-storage position;
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- a rotational support axis provided to be connected to said base end portion of the mirror base and rotatably support said door-mirror body portion and said mirror base between said mirror-use position and said mirror-storage position, wherein said rotational support axis extends from said base end portion to the inside of the side door and is rotated by said drive unit,
- wherein said drive unit is provided inside the side door.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.