Tiltable outside rearview mirror for a vehicle
AssigneeHohe KG
InventorsChristoph Schwarz, Herwig W. Polzer
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Abstract
To reliably reduce the risk of injury in the returning tilting movement of the mirror housing from a rearward tilted end position into a position of normal use a spherical cap is mounted to a pedestal for the mirror housing which covers the open space between a front edge section of the mirror housing and the pedestal when the mirror housing is tilting rearwardly. Stops are provided for ensuring safe support of the mirror housing when assuming the rearward tilted end position thereof. The stops can be removed only by an application of force to the mirror housing whereafter the mirror housing tilts from said rearward tilting end position into the position of normal use.
Claims13
An outside rearview mirror for a vehicle comprising:
- a pedestal adapted to be mounted to a body of the vehicle,
- a mirror housing tiltably mounted to said pedestal for rearward movement relative to said pedestal out of a position of normal use,
- means for holding said mirror housing in the position of normal use at the pedestal,
- an edge of said mirror housing bearing against a shoulder of said pedestal when said mirror housing assumes the position of normal use,
- a spherical cap being mounted to the pedestal and covered by the mirror housing in the position of normal use thereof a curvature of the cap being centered to a rearward edge section of the mirror housing,
- a portion of the said edge riding on an outer periphery of said cap when the mirror housing tilts rearwardly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.