US 2017/0001568 A1Published application

Door mirror device for vehicle

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorsMakoto Sawada, Naomi Miyamoto

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Abstract

A door mirror device includes a mirror housing mounted to a mirror base, a folding mechanism for enabling the mirror housing to pivot rearward of the vehicle when a load higher than a predetermined value is applied to the mirror housing from the front side of the vehicle. The mirror housing has a first region occupying more than half of the vertical area of the mirror housing and has a second region occupying a less area than the first region. The outer surface of the second region is located in front of the outer surface of the first region. The acute angle in a plan view between the outer surface of the second region and an outer side surface of the vehicle is greater than the acute angle between the outer surface of the first region and the outer side surface of the vehicle.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A vehicular door mirror device comprising:

a mirror base which is attached to an outer side surface of a vehicle;
a mirror housing which is attached to the mirror base;
and
a turning mechanism which enables the mirror housing to rotate toward a vehicle rear side when a load corresponding to more than a predetermined value is imposed on the mirror housing from a vehicle front side;
wherein the mirror housing includes,
a first region which occupies more than half in a vertical direction in front view of the vehicle, and
a second region which occupies a smaller extent than the first region;
an outer surface of the second region is located ahead of an outer surface of the first region in a direction toward a vehicle front;
and
an acute angle formed between the outer surface of the second region and the outer side surface of the vehicle in plan view is set greater than an acute angle formed between the outer surface of the first region and the outer side surface of the vehicle in plan view.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/902,017Filed 23 May 2014
Priority: JP 2013-1403084 Jul 2013
Published: 5 Jan 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B60R 1/076
Mounted on vehicle exterior: yieldable to excessive external force and provided with an indexed use position
B60Q 1/2696
The devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic: mounting of devices using LEDs
B60Q 1/34
The devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic: for indicating change of…
B60R 1/1207
Mirror assemblies combined with other articles, e.g. clocks: with lamps; with turn indicators