Setting or adjusting means for rearview mirrors of motor vehicles

US4264142A · kind A · utility

Inventors

• Erich Wunsch · Tutzing, DE
• Udo Wunsch · Schwieberdingen, DE
• Eckart Wunsch · Neuenbürg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 23, 1979
• Grant date: Apr 28, 1981
• Expiry date: Apr 23, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R1/025
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A setting or adjusting device for rearview mirrors with a mirror plate secured to an arm which is pivotal both about a substantially vertical axis and about a substantially horizontal axis, yet is mounted non-rotatably in an axis perpendicular to the two axes, on a mirror holder. An adjusting unit engages the arm acting against a return spring, and comprises two tongs-like members rotatably mounted on the mirror holder about a common axis. The tongs-like members have first legs which accommodate the arm between them, and second legs which cooperate respectively with a controllable adjusting drive such a manner that a pivotal movement of the first legs respectively takes place about the common axis so that a displacement of the arm which is guided between the two first legs occurs which is transmitted in the form of a tilting movement about the horizontal and vertical axes respectively to the mirror plate.