Mci (mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.v.

François Roderik Henri Bouaziz

Paulus Gerardus Maria Van Stiphout

Stefan Frits Brouwer

Stefan Fritz Brouwer

Tom Adriaan Jansen

Bastiaan Bartjan Maat

Peter Alexander Hamming

Jannick Daniël Wijntjes

Anne Catharina Martha Bekker

Meindert Jan Solkesz

Marinus Jacobus Maria Van Zuijlen

Alex Lorier

Léo BRIÈRE

Justin Fransen

Yi Song

An adjustment mechanism for an adjustment device comprising a main worm gear wheel having a hollow central passage and a main worm. The main worm gear wheel is held in an injection molded plastic housing having at least one opening axially aligned with the central passage to allow a shaft to extend via the opening into the central axial passage to be in supporting engagement with the main gear. The main worm is held in the housing for rotation about a main axis of the main worm, and includes at least one circumferential spiral tooth in intermeshing arrangement with teeth on the circumference of the main worm gear wheel, and can be driven to rotation relative to the housing about its main worm axis. Stiffeners are provided between the housing and the main worm gear wheel and/or the main worm to lock the intermeshing arrangement of the teeth under torque.

Adjustment mechanism and adjustment device comprising such adjustment mechanism

The invention relates to adjusting means for adjusting the position of a first part, in particular a viewing means holder part for a viewing means, such as a mirror or a camera for example, relative to a second part, in particular a base part, comprising at least one actuator, via which the first part can be moved, in particular pivoted, relative to the second part. The actuator has at least one first toothed ring segment and at least one second toothed ring segment, wherein the first toothed ring segment is force-coupled to at least one first actuator—in particular, a position detector—and the second toothed ring segment is force-coupled to at least one second actuator—in particular, an actuating drive. The invention additionally relates to a view adjusting means comprising such an adjusting means.

View adjusting mechanism and adjusting means for such a view adjusting mechanism

The invention relates to an adjusting instrument for an exterior mirror unit of a vehicle, including a support unit and a housing unit pivotable in a circumferential direction between a plurality of positions relative to the support unit. Furthermore, the adjusting instrument includes a breakable rotation-locked coupling unit for coupling of the housing unit to the support unit. The coupling unit comprises a plural number N of parallel disposed couplings where each coupling has two mutually opposed coupling faces, pressed against each other under spring action and mutually displaceable in the circumferential direction. The coupling faces have a periodic cam pattern engaging in each other, wherein the two coupling faces are mutually breakably rotation-locked and wherein only a limited number M of couplings is in engagement at the same time, with M being less than N.

Adjustment instrument and a method

An exterior mirror unit for a motor vehicle includes a mirror part and a carrier which carries the mirror part. The mirror part is detachably fixed to the carrier via a coupling. A method is also provided for detaching a mirror part of an exterior mirror unit for a motor vehicle from a carrier of the exterior mirror unit in which a coupling between the mirror part and the carrier is adjusted from the lock position to the release position.

Exterior mirror unit

The invention relates to a device for the adjustment of a shell-shaped housing part, for example a mirror housing. The device, in particular a door mirror device, comprising a base part () on which a support frame () is provided by means of a first hinge construction (). Furthermore, the device comprises a first actuator () with which the carrier frame is pivotable relative to the base portion to a part of a substantially upwardly extending first pivot axis () between a folded position, in which the supporting frame, for example, lying substantially along the body of a motor vehicle, and a unfolded position, in which the supporting frame, for example, is oriented substantially transversely to the body. With the aid of a second hinge construction () a carrier (), in particular for carrying a mirror surface, is disposed on the support frame. Further, the apparatus comprises a second actuator () with which the carrier is pivotable with respect to the supporting frame is pivotable, wherein said carrier, and an optionally carried thereon reflecting surface, with respect to the supporting frame is only pivotable/are to a substantially transverse to the substantially upward direction-extending second hinge axis.

Device for adjusting a shell-shaped housing part, a supporting frame for use in such a device, and a vehicle provided with such a device

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Woerden, Netherlands

François Roderik Henri Bouaziz