United Technologies Automotive Inc.

Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Leonard E Moriconi

Monte L Falcoff

Lawrence L Vigneau

John Swiatocha

George Boguszewicz

Yoshitaka Yoshida

Electric circuity (45) in a lighted vanity mirror module (5) for an automobile sun visor (40) is mounted on the backside of an appearance bezel (10), thereby obviating the necessity for a separate housing. A wire wound resistor (80) is employed in a lamp dimmer (37) and, with the bezel, retains a sliding contact which controls lamp intensity.

Automobile sun visor vanity mirror module

A pair of terminals are each provided with snap dentents for engaging the contact pins extending from the opposite ends of a baseless cartridge bulb. The terminals are mounted to a support and are spaced a distance D which is substantially exactly the same as the spacing between the contact pins at their points of intended engagement with the terminals. This minimizes the loading on the contact pins relative to their seals with the body of the cartridge bulb, and also provides the support for the bulb. The terminals are of a configuration which facilitates relative entry and removal of the bulb's contact pins, yet also releasably retains those pins in good conducting relation therewith.

Mounting arrangement for cartridge bulb and improved terminal therefor

An electrically energizable device of the type that may be selectively rotated through first and second angles of rotation in respective opposite directions in response to the electrical energization thereof in respective opposite senses supports and oscillates a disc member having two discrete circumferentially disposed electrically conductive areas separated by two discrete electrically insulating areas. This device is mounted upon the housing of an electrical motor in such a manner that the disc member is in axial alignment with the motor armature with a surface of each of the motor brushes being in sliding engagement with a surface of the disc member and in contact with a respective one of the electrically insulating areas when the disc member is in a neutral position. Electrical energization of the motor armature may be effected in respective opposite senses in response to the operation of the disc member through the first angle of rotation and through the second angle of rotation.

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Southfield, MI, United States of America

Leonard E Moriconi