Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Masami Yamamoto

Masao Enomoto

Yoshiro Nagayama

Yoshinori Yamauchi

Masagoro Kushida

Kazuto Chisaka

A stay housable type motor driven mirror to be attached, for example, to a car body has a drive gear rotatably driven by a drive apparatus, a clutch gear adapted to fit idlingly onto the support shaft and engage with the drive gear, a clutch holder fitted onto the support shaft beneath the clutch gear in order to rotate the support shaft by its rotation, a clutch mechanism having a concave face and a convex face, each so formed on a lower face of the clutch gear and an upper face of the clutch holder as to engage with each other, and a spring pressing the clutch gear to make the concave face and the convex face of the clutch mechanism engaged with each other. Consequently, it is possible to install the clutch mechanism at a side of follower of a large diameter gear and to increase a design allowance of clutch holding torque. In addition, a height of a bracket case is made shorten, design flexibility of stay attachment to the car body. Increasing an interior space of the bracket case increases design allowance of size and arrangement of the constitutional parts of the mirror simplifying the attachment.

Stay housable type motor driven mirror

Drive mechanism for rear-view mirror assembly of motor-driven folding

A device for driving a movable member in vehicle comprises a driving motor provided to be rotated in s predetermined direction, a reduction gear train for decelerating the rotating motion of the driving motor, and crank mechanism for transmitting the rotation of the motor to an output shaft to be coupled with a driven member and a casing for enclosing the motor, reduction gear train and the crank mechanism. Adjacent two gears in the reduction gear train are rotatably supported coaxially to the casing, and both gears are disposed relatively movably in the axial direction. The two gears are coupled through a clutch mechanism to integrally rotates, disengaged by a manual operating member as required, and only the gear near the output shaft can be rotated.

Device for driving a movable member in vehicle

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Machida, Japan

Masami Yamamoto