Illumination – With viewing mirror
Patent
1991-06-14
1993-12-28
Makay, Albert J.
Illumination
With viewing mirror
362 74, 362144, B60Q 300
Patent
active
052745325
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a removable mirror device for motor vehicle interiors and, in particular, provided with electric illumination means switchedly supplied from dry batteries lodged within the device or from the motor vehicle battery.
A so-called vanity mirror mounted in the passenger side sun visor of motor vehicles is well known. Constant technological improvements are being made to said vanity mirror, contributing to increasing both passenger safety and the comfort level offered by the vehicle passenger compartment.
Outstanding among such improvements for its importance and technological complexity is the incorporation of electric illumination means in the mirror itself, allowing its use to be extended independently of the light conditions external thereto, whether it be natural illumination or illumination from the illumination means disposed inside the vehicle which, moreover, are logically for other purposes such as, for example, among others, operations related with the driving of the vehicle or with accommodation of the passengers.
One such mirrors, including a reflective surface and complementary means of assembly and attachment to the sun visor structure, as well as incorporated elements having different functions, is disclosed in Spanish patent no 8801684, "New mirror for motor vehicle sun visor". The mirror comprises a container body provided with a rotating device allowing for discretional occultation of the reflective, and built-in electric illumination means supplied from the battery normally equipping motor vehicles.
The mirror disclosed in above mentioned Spanish patent no 8801684, like all known vanity mirrors incorporated in the passenger side sun visor, suffers from the drawback that, under normal conditions of use, it is not possible to extend the use of the mirror as such to the remaining occupants of the vehicle. This is due both to the position occupied by the mirror in the sun visor and to the fact that the mirror, or the support members therefor, is not removable from its housing.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a mirror device, in which a vanity mirror normally located in the passenger side sun visor can be extended to any occupant of the motor vehicle.
The removable mirror device for motor vehicle interiors of the invention is characterised in that it is formed by a fixed outer frame of sufficient size snugly to house therein a removable or removable mirror unit mirror with the corresponding retaining and/or ejection means as well as switching means for the supply of the electric illumination means of said mirror and by a removable mirror provided with discretionally usable electric illumination means which is supplied from the battery of the motor vehicle or switching, from dry cells in the mirror itself.
This feature of the device of the invention, i.e., the fact that the device is formed by two mutually independent components, allows one or several of said fixed outer frames to be disposed within the motor vehicle in places, which, either originally or at the user's discretion, are deemed to be appropriate for discretional use as a housing for the removable mirror.
The illumination means can with which the removable mirror of the device of the invention is provided may operate by alternatively using, through the corresponding switching means, the motor vehicle battery and the dry cells incorporated in said removable mirror as sources of power supply. Therefore the illumination means can be supplied from the motor vehicle battery when the removable mirror is housed in said fixed outer frame, while when the removable mirror is out of its housing in the fixed outer frame said means are supplied by the dry cells incorporated in the removable mirror itself. Any type of connection or link between the removable mirror and the housing thereof in the fixed outer frame is not necessary.
The design of the means switching the electric illumination means for the removable mirror allows t
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Industrias Techno-Matic S.A.
Makay Albert J.
Quach Y.
Striker Michael J.
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