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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1999
Ian Boddy, Ada, MI (US);
Jeffrey Janowicz, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Robert Brinchek, Southfield, MI (US);
Magna Mirror Systems Inc., Alto, MI (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an exterior vehicle mirror assembly. The mirror comprises a housing with an electrically powered adjusting mechanism mounted therein, and a support structure to be fixed to the vehicle exterior. The housing is pivotally mounted to the support structure and both the housing and support structure provide structure cooperating to define an indexing pivot assembly. The support structure has a wire receiving passage formed therein and the housing has a wire passage access opening. The access opening provides access to the passage to facilitate passing electroconductive wire though the passage so as to allow the adjusting mechanism to be connected to an electric power source and a control signal source within the vehicle. A lighting assembly is constructed and arranged to be mounted to the support structure so as to close the wire access opening after an installer has passed the wiring through the wire receiving passage. The lighting assembly has light emitting elements operable to emit light therefrom and to be operatively connected to the remote signal receiver of the vehicle such that operation of a remote transmitter will signal the receiver to cause the light emitting elements to emit light generally downwardly from the support structure towards the ground.