Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Accessories
Patent
1984-01-18
1985-09-03
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Accessories
296 91, B62D 3500
Patent
active
045388512
ABSTRACT:
An aerodynamic rear view mirror includes a mirror glass mounted within a streamlined mirror housing having inboard and outboard side walls and top and bottom walls. The inboard side wall is concavely curved to define a rear portion nearly parallel with the door side window and a forward portion which curves inboard to reach around the pillar. The mirror housing is mounted on the vehicle body in generally parallel spaced relation relative the side window and the pillar to cooperate therewith in defining a curved airflow channel by which relatively clean air from in front of the windshield is ducted through the airflow channel around the pillar and onto the side window to thereby create an airflow barrier against foreign matter impingement on the side window and to streamline airflow from the front of the vehicle body around the side of the vehicle body. The housing is preferably mounted on the vehicle body by a mounting vane which extends longitudinally of the vehicle and has a negligible vertical dimension so that the airflow channel extends substantially the full height of the inboard side wall of the mirror housing.
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General Motors Corporation
Leahy Charles E.
Song Robert R.
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