Outside rear-view mirror for vehicles

US5124846A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hohe GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Edwin Seitz · Neuenbuch, DE
• Herwig Polzer · Miltenberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 29, 1990
• Grant date: Jun 23, 1992
• Expiry date: May 29, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R1/074
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed is an outside rear-view for a vehicle which has a pedestal to be mounted to a body of the vehicle and a mirror housing held to the pedestal. An electric motor is provided for tilting the mirror housing relative to the pedestal. The electric motor is mounted to the inner surface of an assembly plate bordering the pedestal towards the body, and the drive shaft of the electric motor is linked preferably through a transmission gear and/or a clutch and through a cam to a rigid transmission member coupled to the mirror housing. Alternatively, the drive motor may be mounted within the interior of the mirror housing, the transmission member coupled to the cam of the driving motor then may be coupled to the pedestal. Thereby the advantages are obtained that the electric driving motor does not project outwardly from the normal outer conture of an outside rear-view mirror and may be utilized for any modes of mounting of the mirror housing to the pedestal.