Electric storage unit for vehicle outside mirror device, and vehicle outside mirror device
AssigneeIchikoh Industries, Ltd.
InventorIkuo SAKATA
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Abstract
The present invention includes a shaft, a gear case, a cover, a motor, and a rotational force transmission mechanism. The gear case has an upright wall. The cover has a fitting wall and a cover wall. The upright wall and the fitting wall are provided with a fitting member. The fitting member includes a fitting protruding unit, and an elastically deformable fitting piece having a fitting opening unit. As a result, the present invention can sufficiently reduce the number of parts and can surely prevent the cover from rattling.
Claims9
An electric storage unit for a vehicle outside mirror device that electrically rotates a mirror assembly with respect to a vehicle body, the electric storage unit comprising:
- a shaft fixed to the vehicle body via a base;
- a gear case rotatably attached to the shaft, the mirror assembly being attached to the gear case;
- a cover attached to the gear case;
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- a motor and a rotational force transmission mechanism housed in the gear case and the cover, wherein
- the gear case has an upright wall surrounding the motor and the rotational force transmission mechanism and the upper portion of the upright wall is open,
- the cover has a fitting wall fitted from outside onto the periphery of the upper portion of the upright wall and a cover wall covering the opening unit of the upright wall,
- the upright wall and the fitting wall are provided with a fitting member for assembling the gear case and the cover together, and
- the fitting member includes
- a fitting protruding unit provided on the gear case, and
- an elastically deformable fitting piece provided on the cover and having a fitting opening unit into which the fitting protruding unit is fitted, the elastically deformable fitting piece being configured to elastically deform in a direction of a center line of the shaft to be fitted with the fitting protruding unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.