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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2002
Masato Sakamoto, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yoshio Tsujiuchi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A mirror device for a vehicle which is equipped with a mirror surface angle adjusting mechanism. In a door mirror device for a vehicle, a load is applied to a rod drive in an axial direction, a claw member elastically deforms, and an engagement valley of the rod drive rides up over an engagement projection provided at a distal end of the claw member and is moved. Here, given that angles of inclination of two surfaces of the engagement valley, at a mirror side and at a side opposite the mirror, with respect to a direction orthogonal to an axis of the rod drive, are respectively &thgr;1 and &thgr;2, &thgr;1>&thgr;2. In this way, two loads for manually moving the rod drive toward a side opposite the mirror and toward the mirror side can be made to approach substantially a same magnitude.