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Hiroyoshi Kondo

Hiroshi Kondo

Shinji Oota

Harumasa Oota

Tomoyasu Yamada

An automobile mirror assembly improves safety during driving of a car by widening the visual field of the driver with little distortion. The mirror is mounted on a car with a support member and a holding member to be adjustable in its position. A gradually changing mirror section is provided on at least one of an upper, lower and side edges of a main mirror section of the mirror. A surface of a gradually changing mirror section is defined by a plurality of intersections between curved surfaces provided in at least one of a vertical and horizontal directions with hyperbolic curves provided in a direction perpendicular to one of the vertical and horizontal directions. Each respective curved surface passes through circular arcs, the radii of curvatures of the circular area being calculated from Equation 1 indicated below. The radii of curvatures of the circular arcs gradually become smaller in an extending direction. The intersection of the hyperbolic curves and the curved surfaces define the surface of the gradually changing mirror. The Equation 1 is as follows: ##EQU1## where: A1, A2, . . . An-1, An are asphericity factors representing asphericity at respective portions in the at least one of the horizontal and the vertical directions, n is any integer, K=0, and C=1/r0, and wherein r0 represents a radius of curvature at a starting position of the gradually changing mirror section.

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Hiroyoshi Kondo