Mirror for motor vehicles

US4768871A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Bernhard Mittelhauser · DE

Inventors

• Bernhard Mittelhauser · Großburgwedel, DE
• Norbert Kürschner · Großburgwedel, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 21, 1987
• Grant date: Sep 6, 1988
• Expiry date: Oct 21, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/20432
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An adjustable rear view mirror, the mirror element of which is supported by a ball-and-socket-like joint, and can be adjusted by two elements that can be actuated by pressure medium. In order to use single-acting adjustment elements, a reset spring is associated with the two elements. This reset spring is disposed on an imaginary line that bisects the angle defined by the two adjustment elements and the ball-and-socket-like joint. This reset spring is expediently a compression spring that is disposed across from the two adjustment elements.