Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.

Norio Yoshida

Osamu Tsuyama

Masayuki Yokota

The wiper blade according to the present invention consists of a blade lever and a wiping string held as extended tight on one side of the blade lever. The height of the wiper blade is a maximum of a sum of a thickness of plate-like blade lever, outside diameter of the wiping string and the spacing between the blade lever and wiping string. The width of the wiper blade is that of the blade lever. Therefore, the wiper blade can be designed small as a whole. The mirror holder has formed thereon a wiper blade guide consisting of as ascending slope to lift away from the mirror surface the wiper blade having been moved to near its reverse position and a vertical wall to land the wiper blade, having been thus lifted and reversed, from the lifted position above the mirror surface onto the mirror surface to a predetermined position where the wiper blade starts being moved back. Thus, the wiper blade can jump over a rainwater it has gathered by its forward movement and wipes it again along with new raindrops by its reverse movement with no trailing, during the reverse movement, of the rainwater having been gathered downward once by the forward movement, thereby permitting to effectively wipe away raindrops on the mirror surface.

Wiper blade for automotive outside mirror wiper and automotive outside

A car rearview mirror comprises a mirror unit having a hemispheric convex surface formed thereon and a central support formed integrally therewith on the opposite side to the hemispheric convex surface to receive a leaf or wire spring at the center of the latter, and a mirror housing having a hemispheric concave surface formed thereon and two end supports formed integrally therewith to retain the spring at the opposite ends, respectively, of the latter. The hemispheric convex surface of the mirror unit is fitted to the hemispheric convex surface of the mirror housing in such a manner that the mirror unit can be pivoted in relation to the mirror housing. To assemble the rearview mirror, the spring is bowed and supported at the center thereof on the central support and at the opposite ends thereof on the two end supports. Namely, the car rearview mirror can have a reduced number of parts.

Car rearview mirror

In a drive unit for an electric remote control mirror, a pair of screw rods for slanting the mirror around horizontal and vertical axes is disposed movably forwardly and backwardly within the drive casing. Within the drive casing, there is disposed a pair of drive motors, of which the rotations are transmitted through a reduction gear group to a pair of rotation members, of which the rotations are converted into forward and backward movements of the pair of screw rods. Each of the rotation members is composed of a shaft having a pair of arm members with a screw thread which is in mesh with a screw thread formed on the inner circumference of the screw rod, a hollow cylindrical rotation body having a gear in mesh with the reduction gear group and a space in which the screw rod is placed, and a plurality of connection members extending radially and which provides a connection between the base of the shaft and the lower end of the rotation body, each of the connection members being formed relatively thin so that when the shaft is exposed to a force from the screw rod, the connection member is resiliently deformable. When each screw rod is moved forwardly or backwardly, the shaft is exposed to a force from the screw rod, but since the plural connection members are resiliently deformed, the shaft can be slanted axially so that each screw rod can positively follow up with the pivoting of the mirror.

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Isehara, Japan

Norio Yoshida