Plastic glass mirror for vehicles
The invention related to a rear view mirror using a plastic glass material to combine several functions as fixing and heating.
1. A rear view mirror, comprising a housing an motor actuator and a reflective element, wherein the reflective element is a plastic material substrate with a first surface coated with at least a reflective layer and a second surface with at least a set of molded fixing elements to be fixed at the motor actuator and with a metal layer as a thermal conductor, said set of molded fixing elements includes molded contact noses for heater contacts.
2. A rear view mirror according to claim 1 wherein the edge radius along the rim of the mirror shape has a value of more than 0.6 mm.
3. A rear view mirror according to claim 1 wherein the plastic material substrate includes a frame area along the rim of the mirror substrate shape with an increased thickness.
4. A rear view mirror according to claim 1 wherein the reflective layer is an Al—Ti layer.
5. A rear view mirror, according to claim 1 wherein the reflective element includes a protection hard coat layer with a first and a second layer of the same hard coat material, the first layer deposited by a dipping process, the second layer applied by a spraying process.
6. A rear view mirror according to claim 5 wherein the first hard coat layer is smooth with a roughness smaller than wavelengths of visible light.
7. A rear view mirror according to claim 1 wherein the second surface is coated with a heating resistive alloy of Ti—Al or Ni—Ti.