Outside mirror for a vehicle

US4969727A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Harloff · Böblingen, DE
• Dieter Eckert · Fürth, DE
• Siegfried Herzog · Waldenbuch, DE
• Robert Schwed · Bad Teinach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 8, 1989
• Grant date: Nov 13, 1990
• Expiry date: Jun 8, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S248/90
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An outside mirror for motor vehicles employs an electromotive drive to position a mirror housing between a viewing position and garage position. The mirror housing is moved in a direction opposite to the direction of travel against the vehicle body to position the housing at the garage position however, a mobility of the mirror housing in the event of collisions in both directions is provided so that the mirror housing automatically returning to the viewing position in the case of movements in the direction of travel.