Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.

Masao Enomoto

Masagoro Kushida

Masami Yamamoto

Makoto Yamashita

Fumio Niitsuma

Akira Miyamoto

Yoshinori Yamauchi

Yoshiro Nagayama

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

An electric remote control mirror apparatus comprising pivotably supporting means fixed within a mirror housing for pivotably supporting the mirror body having a mirror by utilizing a pivot connection mechanism composed of a boss portion mounted on the mirror body and a concave portion mounted on a drive casing to be resiliently fitted to the boss portion, a mirror driving mechanism composed of two ball bases mounted on the mirror body and disposed on two lines orthogonal to each other, threaded rods each of which has a ball to be fitted to the ball base and mounted in the direction parallel to the axial direction of the pivot connection mechanism thereby slanting the mirror body, and O-ring for stably supporting the threaded rods and surely sealing the threaded rods from water and/or dust, wherein a stable movement of the mirror is achieved and the mirror is stably maintained even when the mirror is affected with wind pressure and/or vibration due to automobiles.

Electric remote control mirror apparatus

An outside rear view mirror for cars wherein a mirror housing which is formed independently of a base is swingably supported by the base through a speindle member and automatically swung toward the car body by remote operation in the car room, and wherein when load is forcedly added to the mirror housing from outside, the mirror housing is swung toward the car body by a buffer mechanism, which is arranged between the base and the mirror housing, to thereby absorb the impact of the load added.

Outside rear view mirror

An electric remote control mirror apparatus comprising boss portion mounted on a mirror body fixing the mirror, a concave surface formed at the portion integrally formed with the mirror housing for receiving the mirror body, a pivot connection being composed of the boss portion and the concave surface, a pressure applying member having the surface to be connected to the inner surface of the boss portion and the end portion to be connected to the portion of the mirror housing by passing through the boss portion, a coil spring for pressing the member to the boss portion, thereby to surely support the mirror body within the mirror housing, wherein the rotating resistance of the pivot connection can be easily and precisely adjustable, the rotation of the mirror body around the pivot axis is prevented thereby to avoid vibration and change of inclination of the mirror body.

Electric remote control mirror with half-ball portion

Motor-driven remote control mirror device with shaft portion pivot not

A mirror angle adjusting device in remotely controlled rear-view mirror apparatus for automobile is arranged that: a supporting plate of the mirror is fixed to the ball of a ball-and-socket joint; a shaft extending from the ball is inserted in the through-hole defined by the two perpendicularly crossing elongated slots of two perpendicularly crossing slidable bars, and the device is operative so that the slidable bars are caused to make reciprocal movements by their mating motors to displace the position of the above-said through-hole, whereby the supporting plate of the mirror is inclined about the ball-and-socket joint. The rotation speeds of the motors are reduced by two sets of worm gears, and the speed-reduced rotations of the motors are converted to reciprocal motions by two sets of rack-and-pinion gears to cause the slidable bars to make the above-said reciprocal movements. Each of the worm wheels of the worm gears contains therein a slipping mechanism for preventing over-load operation of the motors.

Mirror angle adjusting device, with consecutively driven worms in

A periscope-type rear view mirror for automobiles which has a planar objective mirror positioned above an aperture formed through the roof of the driver's compartment of the automobile body for reflecting the light rays coming from behind the automobile forwardly and downwardly into the driver's compartment. A planar reflecting mirror is positioned substantially parallel to the objective mirror in the driver's compartment for reflecting the light rays reflected from said objective mirror forwardly and upwardly to a planar eye-piece mirror positioned close to said reflecting mirror and having a mirror surface crossing obliquely at an acute angle for reflecting the light rays reflected from said reflecting mirror into the driver's eye position. Said reflecting mirror is fixed to a stay, and said eye-piece mirror is pivotally secured to said stay which, in turn, is pivotably secured to the inner wall of the automobile at a position close to said aperture.

Periscope-type rear view mirror apparatus for automobile

A periscope-type rear view mirror apparatus for automobiles is disclosed. The apparatus includes a roof-top planar objective mirror positioned above an aperture formed in the roof of the driver's chamber of an automobile for reflecting forwardly and downwardly the light rays coming from the rear of the automobile into the driver's chamber, a first planar reflecting mirror positioned in the driver's chamber for reflecting forwardly and upwardly the light rays reflected by the objective mirror, and a second planar reflecting mirror positioned close to the first reflecting mirror for reflecting the light rays reflected by the first reflecting mirror to the eyes of the driver. The first reflecting mirror is supported by a pivotably hinged holder to allow the vertical angular adjustment of the holder, whereby the first reflecting mirror can be used as an ordinary rear view mirror of the type normally installed in the driver's chamber.

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Hadano, Japan

Masao Enomoto