Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Fujikura Limited

Bunji Inagaki

Takashi Ichikawa

Yoshio Tsujiuchi

Morihiko Ogasawara

Koji Sakiyama

Fuminori Teraoka

Masakazu Iwatsuki

Yasunori Hattori

Kazuya Umino

Mitsuru Kamikatano

Masatsugu Ohashi

Hiroki Iwasa

Yasuhide Narita

Kiyoharu Iga

Michiyasu Yajima

Disclosed in a door mirror device capable of continuously emitting light from two light guides. The door mirror device comprises: a first light-emitting light guide arranged in the visor part of a door mirror foldably mounted on the door mirror support part of a vehicle; a second light-emitting light guide provided in the door mirror support part, an end of the second light-emitting light guide facing to an end of the first light-emitting light guide so as to have continuity with the first light-emitting light guide; and a light source configured to emit light toward the first light-emitting light guide and the second light-emitting light guide, the light source being provided in the visor part.

Door mirror device for a vehicle

When a vehicle mirror assembly is assembled, a bracket is firstly set as an assembling reference member, disposed on a bracket jig and positioned with respect to the bracket jig. Next, a retracting unit, a mirror surface adjustment unit, a door mirror stay and a mirror are mounted to the bracket. Finally a door mirror visor is mounted to the bracket. The bracket is made common regardless of a vehicle type thus a fixed bracket jig can be used resulting in cost reduction. Further, as the door mirror visor is mounted in a final process, defects of the door mirror visor due to scratches can be reduced thereby improving the production efficiency.

Vehicle mirror assembly and method for assembling the same

In order that an image photographed by a monitoring mechanism can be stable even in a case in which vibration of a vehicle is transmitted to a hosing, a mirror device for a vehicle comprising a housing, provided at a vehicle, which holds a mirror and covers a back surface side of the mirror, a photographing mechanism, provided within the housing, which has a lens and photographs a status in a direction in which the lens is oriented, a fixing member, fixed to one of the housing or the mirror, which fixes one of the lens or the vicinity of the lens of the photographing mechanism, is provided.

Mirror device for a vehicle

A manually foldable door mirror has a stand, a bracket which is supported by the stand, and a mirror portion which is fixed to the bracket. A first surface is formed on the stand. A support shaft extends from the stand. A first projection and a second projection are located on the first surface at a predetermined interval with respect to an axis of the support shaft. A second surface is formed on the bracket. A first recess and a second recess are located on the second surface at a predetermined interval with respect to the axis of the support shaft. When the first projection fits in the first recess and the second projection faces to the second recess, the mirror portion is held at the normal position. When the second projection fits in the first recess and the first projection faces to the second recess, the mirror portion is held at the folded position. A circumferential width of the second recess is greater than those of the first and second projections. A spring urges the bracket to the stand.

Manually foldable door mirror

In a door mirror assembly for a vehicle, a case is supported at a door mirror stay provided at a vehicle door and mounted to a door mirror visor, whereby the door mirror visor is disposed above the door mirror stay. An overlap portion provided at the case and an overlap portion provided at an opening of the door mirror visor are overlapped one above the other and mounted, and a gap between the opening of the door mirror visor and the lower part of the case is thus stopped. Therefore, generation of wind noises caused by wind entering through the gap between the opening of the door mirror visor and the lower part of the case while a vehicle is in motion can be prevented.

Mirror assembly

The present invention relates to a structure for holding a visor for a door mirror device. In the present invention, a seat is integrally formed at a backside of a visor cover. A clip, which is formed separately from the visor cover, is mounted to the seat. A clip-engaging hole is formed at a frame, and, by engaging the clip with the clip engaging hole, the visor cover can be assembled to the frame.

Structure for holding visor for door mirror device

A door mirror stay which has a mount plate which is fixed along a door panel, a mirror support which is supported by the mount plate and which supports a mirror unit, and a porous member which is integrally formed with the mount plate, the porous member covering a mount surface of the mount plate. This integrally formed porous member has a function to seal and protect the mount surface. The number of parts of the stay and in turn the number of working steps can be decreased, so that the manufacturing cost can be more lowered than the conventional. In the present invention, the door mirror stay can be a one-piece type stay, or a two-piece type stay. In two-piece type stay, an air flow is prevented from entering the automobile through the gaps between each pieces, so that the wind noise can be lowered.

Stay for door mirror

Mounting structure of base and base cover in door mirror for automobile

An automobile mirror assembly in which a value of resistance of a rotary variable resistor with an actuator that is driven to rotate by a mirror push-pull operation shaft being moved in its axial direction at time of adjusting a posture of a mirror in the assembly, varies generally linearly when the mirror push-pull operation shaft moves linearly in the axial direction. The mirror push-pull operation shaft has a flat rear end face, and the actuator has one end that forms arc-shaped in which the flat rear end face thereof contacts the one end thereof, and in which the other end of the actuator is fixed to a rotation shaft of the rotary variable resistor. The arc of the arc-shaped one end of the actuator is included within a revolving plane within which the actuator is rotated.

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Kasugai, Japan

Bunji Inagaki