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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
May. 03, 2018
Mci (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.v., Woerden, NL;
Bastiaan Bartjan Maat, Groot-Ammers, NL;
Paulus Gerardus Maria Van Stiphout, Woerden, NL;
François Roderik Henri Bouaziz, Rotterdam, NL;
MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V., Woerden, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to an adjusting instrument for an exterior mirror unit of a vehicle, including a support unit and a housing unit pivotable in a circumferential direction between a plurality of positions relative to the support unit. Furthermore, the adjusting instrument includes a breakable rotation-locked coupling unit for coupling of the housing unit to the support unit. The coupling unit comprises a plural number N of parallel disposed couplings where each coupling has two mutually opposed coupling faces, pressed against each other under spring action and mutually displaceable in the circumferential direction. The coupling faces have a periodic cam pattern engaging in each other, wherein the two coupling faces are mutually breakably rotation-locked and wherein only a limited number M of couplings is in engagement at the same time, with M being less than N.