Reitter & Schefenacker Gmbh & Co. Kg

Smr Patents Sarl

Karl-Heinz Leonberger

Bernd Waldmann

Klaus Weller

An exterior rearview mirror for motor vehicles has a mirror arm and a mirror housing connected to the mirror arm so as to foldable about a pivot axis relative to the mirror arm. A support plate is mounted in the mirror housing. A mirror pane is attached to the support plate so as to face outwardly relative to the mirror housing. An adjusting device for adjusting a position of the mirror pane from the interior of the motor vehicle is provided. The adjusting device includes a first adjusting member accessible from the interior of the motor vehicle. The adjusting device includes a second adjusting member mounted within the housing. The first and second adjusting members are connected to one another so as to be pivotable about a common axis. The common axis coincides substantially with the pivot axis of the housing.

External rearview mirror

An external rearview mirror for motor vehicle has a housing and a mirror support plate connected in the housing so as to be pivotable about two axes perpendicular to one another. A pivot joint is connected to the mirror support plate for pivoting the mirror support plate. An actuating lever for pivoting the mirror support plate is provided. Two push rods are pivotably connected with a first end to the mirror support plate at a distance from the pivot joint. An intermediate lever is pivotably connected to the actuating lever and to the push rods. The intermediate lever has a transverse rod with two ends in the form of bearing balls. The push rods have at a second end thereof a bearing cup, wherein each bearing ball of the transverse rod rests in one of the bearing cups.

External rear view mirror for vehicles, especially motor vehicles

An exterior rearview mirror for motor vehicles has a support member for connecting the rearview mirror to the motor vehicle. A mirror housing is connected to the support member and has a mirror support connected inside the mirror housing. The mirror support has a frontal opening for a mirror. The mirror housing together with the mirror support is pivotable relative to the support member from a position of use into a rest position. The support member is hollow and has a receiving element extending into the interior of the motor vehicle. In the rest position the mirror housing together with the mirror support is substantially folded into the support member.

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Hochdorf, Germany

Karl-Heinz Leonberger