Vehicle outside rearview mirror device
AssigneesIchikoh Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsJouichi Kawanishi, Takahiro Kitamura
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Abstract
In a vehicle outside rearview mirror device including a mirror housing capable of tilting with respect to a vehicle body, the vehicle outside rearview mirror device includes a base fixed to the vehicle body; a shaft fixed to the base; and the mirror housing mounted to the shaft so as to be capable of tilting, wherein a wall that reduces a flow rate of a wind passing through a gap between the base and the mirror housing is provided to the shaft.
Claims6
A vehicle outside rearview mirror device including a mirror housing capable of tilting with respect to a vehicle body, the vehicle outside rearview mirror device comprising:
- a base fixed to the vehicle body;
- a shaft fixed to the base;
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- the mirror housing mounted to the shaft so as to be capable of tilting,
- wherein a wall that reduces a flow rate of a wind passing through a gap between the base and the mirror housing is provided for the shaft,
- wherein an insertion opening through which the shaft is inserted is formed on a portion opposite to the base of the mirror housing,
- wherein the wall of the shaft is provided so as to be concentric with and coaxial to an inner peripheral surface of the insertion opening of the mirror housing, and
- wherein a turbulent portion that disturbs the flow of the wind flowing through the insertion opening of the mirror housing whose flow rate is reduced by the wall is provided on at least one of a surface of the insertion opening of the mirror housing and a surface of the wall of the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.