Apparatus for pivoting a mirror assembly
AssigneeLang-Mekra North America, LLC
InventorsHeinrich Lang, Albrecht Popp
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Abstract
A bearing apparatus for pivotally moving a carrying arm relative to an anchorage is provided. The carrying arm may carry a mirror for a vehicle, the anchorage mountable to the vehicle. The bearing apparatus has a bushing located between the carrying arm and the anchorage in which a pivot bearing apparatus is moveably disposed. In one embodiment the pivot bearing apparatus has a control component and a come-along part relationally disposed about a shaft and movably connected to the control component. When the shaft is rotated, the come-along part moves along the shaft to rotate the control component. In turn, the control component transfers its rotation to pivot the carrying arm.
Claims15
A bearing apparatus for pivoting a carrying arm, the bearing apparatus comprising:
- an anchorage having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end attached to a vehicle;
- a bushing depending from the distal end, the carrying arm attached to the bushing;
- and a pivot bearing assembly movably disposed in the bushing and configured to pivotably drive the carrying arm, wherein the pivot bearing assembly includes a shaft having a first end and a second end and a come-along part movably disposed about the shaft the first end in rotational communication with the carrying arm, the second end configured to be rotationally driven by a drive apparatus, wherein the shaft is configured to rotationally engage the come-along part, the come-along part configured to slidingly engage the bushing upon a rotation of the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.