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Automatically dimmable rear-view mirror arrangement for motor vehicles and method for producing a mirror assembly for a rear-view mirror arrangement

US10166926B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 16, 2013
Grant dateJan 1, 2019
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Expiry dateOct 16, 2033

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T29/49155
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A rear-view mirror arrangement for motor vehicles that includes a housing and a mirror assembly arranged thereon and which is to observe following traffic. The mirror assembly has a front side and a rear side, in which a reflectance thereof that it is variable by a control device. The mirror assembly has an electrically drivable liquid crystal cell arranged between transparent carrier layers, and at least one reflection coating. One of the transparent carrier layers which faces toward the housing on the rear side is an optically transparent plastic film that is provided with the reflection coating on the rear side.

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