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US 2006/0132944 A1Published application
Vehicle side mirror assembly with rearward and forward viewing
AssigneeMurakami Corporation
InventorsMasaaki Matsuura, Masahiro Motomiya, Hisaya Suzuki
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Abstract
Disclosed is an outer mirror in which individual components are easy to assemble and which is superior in durability. An outer mirror includes a mirror base having a protrusion which sticks out outward from a side face of a vehicle body, a shaft being placed on the protrusion, and a mirror housing being coupled to the shaft in a rotatable fashion. Furthermore, the mirror housing includes a mirror for showing an area behind the vehicle body, and an opening on its side that faces the vehicle body.
Claims9
An outer mirror, comprising:
- a mirror base having a protrusion which sticks out laterally from a side face of a vehicle body;
- a shaft being placed on the protrusion;
- a mirror housing being coupled to the shaft in a rotatable fashion, the mirror housing comprising:
- a mirror for showing an area behind the vehicle body, and
- an opening on its side that faces the vehicle body;
- an auxiliary mirror for showing an area diagonally forward the vehicle body, the auxiliary mirror sealing the opening;
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- the mirror housing further comprising a swelling portion sticking out from the side of the mirror housing and being positioned beneath the protrusion, the opening being formed on a side of the swelling portion which faces the vehicle body, the swelling portion having a through-hole on its portion that faces the protrusion, the insertion of the screw being performed via the through-hole, the through-hole being accessible externally through the opening.
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