Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Kouzi Kawasumi

Mikio Hayashi

Kenji Kanayama

Hidekuni Sugi

Shuzo Kinkori

Yoshinobu Kimura

A side mirror driving apparatus for vehicles capable of automatically returning the mirror to its initial position after the mirror is swingably operated up and down and/or right and left to get a wider rear field of view when changing the vehicle's course. The apparatus includes first power transmitting means for adjusting the angle position of the mirror to a desired one and second power transmitting means for temporarily swinging the mirror for the above purpose, the first and second power transmitting means being operatively independent of each other, so that the mirror, when operated, is always inclined downwardly or outwardly from a starting position of the mirror.

Side-mirror driving apparatus

A side mirror driving apparatus having a side mirror swingably attached to a housing and a driving apparatus supported by the housing. The driving apparatus includes a gear driven by an electric motor and the mirror is operatively linked with the gear by means of a lift lever so that the mirror is inclined in an up-and downward direction and/or left-and rightward direction. At a side of a rear surface of the gear, there is provided a set position stopping device, so that the mirror can be automatically returned to its initial position.

An AC generator includes a pair of cup-shaped housings to accomodate a stationary armature coil and a rotor. The armature coil includes a multiphase windings formed in a flat annular shape having flat surfaces perpendicular to the axis of a rotating shaft of the AC generator, and the flat annular-shaped armature coil is mounted on the pair of cup-shaped housings with the outer peripheral portion of the armature coil fixed between the pair of housings. The rotor includes a pair of discs of magnetic material fixed to the rotating shaft spaced from and opposed to each other interposed therebetween by the flat annular-shaped armature coil. Each of the discs has a plurality of permanent magnets arranged concentrically with the rotating shaft in alternate magnetic polarities on one surface of the disc facing the armature coil, so that magnetic fluxes which rotate with the discs and which link with the stationary armature coil are produced between opposed permanent magnets of the pair of discs. The longitudinal size of the AC generator is reduced to achieve a compact AC generator.

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Nagoya, Japan

Kouzi Kawasumi