US 5,857,731 AGranted

Vehicle door with a triangular mirror bracket for mounting an outside mirror

AssigneeWagon Automotive GmbH

InventorsGunther Heim, Rene Rack, Jurgen Hock, Armin Klein

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Abstract

A vehicle door, which can be attached with hinges to a motor vehicle, wherein the vehicle door (1; 33) has an inside wall (8), an outside wall and window channel profiles (2; 18; 28) and wherein a triangular mirror bracket (3; 13; 25; 34) is provided above the outside wall for mounting the outside mirror (4). In order that the triangular mirror bracket (3; 13; 25; 34) can be installed quickly and easily in the vehicle door (1) and can be replaced easily during subsequent repairs, the triangular mirror bracket (3; 13; 25; 34) is provided on its underside (5; 16) with a pin (6; 17; 26), which is inserted into a recess (7; 21; 27) of a bearing structural component (22; 28) of the door (1) to mount the triangular mirror bracket (3; 13; 25; 34) to the vehicle door (1; 33).

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Dependent claims

A vehicle door, which can be attached with hinges to a motor vehicle, comprising:

an inside wall, an outside wall, window channel profiles for a window and a triangular mirror bracket, with an outside mirror disposed above the outside wall for mounting the outside mirror to the door;
wherein, said triangular mirror bracket has a pin disposed on its underside, with said pin being inserted into a recess formed in a bearing structural component of the door to mount the triangular mirror bracket to the vehicle door;
wherein said door is provided with attachment brackets for hinges for the vehicle door, with at least an upper one of said attachment brackets enclosing said recess with an edge of the vehicle door;
and wherein said pin of said triangular mirror bracket is inserted into said recess enclosed by said attachment bracket for the vehicle door hinge.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.