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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2015
Mci (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.v., Woerden, NL;
Amee Heleen de Groen, Woerden, NL;
Jan Christiaan Gentis, Woerden, NL;
Peter Alexander Hamming, Woerden, NL;
Paulus Gerardus Maria van Stiphout, Woerden, NL;
Bastiaan Aaldert Smilde, Woerden, NL;
MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V., Woerden, NL;
Abstract
A mirror adjustment mechanism, in particular for a wing mirror for a motor vehicle, having a base part with a mirror support arranged pivotally relative thereto, wherein between the base part and the mirror support a damper is arranged, the damper including a collar portion coupled to the mirror support, encompassing a ball portion, coupled to the base part, or vice versa, both constituting a ball joint arrangement. A slide element is slidingly engaged between the ball portion and the collar portion in such a way that it restrains movement of the collar portion relative to the ball portion, resulting from movement the mirror support relative to the base part, wherein the slide element is a spring ring slidingly abutting on contact surfaces of the ball portion and coupled to the collar portion.