Exterior mirror for a vehicle

US4836490A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Bernhard Mittelhauser · DE

Inventors

• Bernhard Mittelhauser · Großburgwedel, DE
• Bernd Winkler · Breckerfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 22, 1988
• Grant date: Jun 6, 1989
• Expiry date: Apr 22, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R1/076
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An exterior mirror for a vehicle, including a base mounted on the vehicle, and a housing, for a mirror body, mounted on the base in such a way as to be pivotable to the front and to the rear relative to the forward direction of travel of the vehicle. A lever arm is mounted on the base in such a way as to be pivotable in the direction of pivot of the housing. One end of a swivel arm is directed toward the base and is hingedly connected with the lever arm. One end of a tension spring is connected to that end of the swivel arm that is remote from the base. A second end of the tension spring is connected to the base in the vicinity of where the lever arm is mounted on the base. The housing is connected to the swivel arm, in the vicinity of that end of the latter remote from the base, in such a way that the housing is pivotable about either its front or rear edge against the force of the tension spring.