Optical: systems and elements – Mirror – Retractable vehicle mirror
Patent
1996-12-20
1999-03-23
Shafer, Ricky D.
Optical: systems and elements
Mirror
Retractable vehicle mirror
359843, 359874, 359876, 359877, 359881, 248480, 248487, 362 831, G02B 508, G02B 7182, B60R 106
Patent
active
058868380
ABSTRACT:
A door mirror with a small dead angle which enables the driver to easily see the areas where the right and left front and rear wheels are touching the ground that could not been seen with conventional door mirrors due to dead angles, and to easily see the horizontal forward direction (if there are oncoming cars) on the side of the assistant driver's seat at the time of passing another car ahead by manipulating buttons on the driver's seat and, then, automatically returns to its initial state. The door mirror with a small dead angle comprises a support arm which includes a straight-moving screw, a slide plate that slides in the lengthwise direction thereof, and a mirror case pivoted on the slide plate to rotate. The door mirror may be further equipped with movable sources of light, may be constructed so as to be folded and may contain a fine adjustment mechanism in the mirror case. The door mirror is further equipped with a control/electrically moving mechanism by which the mirror case is automatically moved up to the coordinates that have been set in advance in a CPU enabling the driver to see the otherwise dead-angled areas, and the mirror case is returned back either manually or automatically.
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