IP Library Granted Patent US 11,472,341
Granted Patent B2
US 11,472,341 · App. 17/088,054 · Granted Oct 18, 2022

Vehicle door mirror

Inventors: Takehito Yamashita (Miyazaki, JP); Masakazu Tada (Miyazaki, JP)
Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock
B60R1/06B60R1/074
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Patent No.
US 11,472,341
App. No.
17/088,054
Granted
Oct 18, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a vehicle door mirror, bottomed first and second tubular parts are provided integrally with a base plate portion of an end wall so as to protrude to a mirror side and a cover side from the base plate portion, the first tubular parts having first recesses formed therein respectively, the first recesses opening to the cover side, the second tubular parts having second recesses formed therein respectively, the second recesses opening to the mirror side, the first recesses and the second recesses being arranged alternately, and peripheral walls of the alternately arranged first tubular parts and second tubular parts are formed integrally and continuously with each other such that wall parts, that are part of the peripheral walls and respectively disposed between the alternately arranged first recesses and second recesses, are formed so as to be common to the first tubular parts and the second tubular parts.

Claims (7)

1. A vehicle door mirror, comprising

a mirror housing that is to be disposed on each of front side doors of a vehicle and includes a resin-made housing main body and at least one cover, the housing main body including a mirror housing recess formed therein and an end wall having a flat base plate portion, an end part, on a side opposite to an opening end, of the mirror housing recess being closed by the end wall, the at least one cover covering the housing main body from the side opposite to the opening end of the mirror housing recess, a mirror facing the base plate portion and being housed in the mirror housing recess,

wherein bottomed first tubular parts and bottomed second tubular parts are provided integrally with the base plate portion of the end wall, the first tubular parts having first recesses formed therein respectively and protruding to the mirror side and the cover side from the base plate portion, the first recesses opening to the cover side, the second tubular parts having second recesses formed therein respectively and protruding to the mirror side and the cover side from the base plate portion, the second recesses opening to the mirror side, the first recesses and the second recesses being arranged alternately, and

peripheral walls of the alternately arranged first tubular parts and second tubular parts are formed integrally and continuously with each other such that wall parts, that are part of the peripheral walls and respectively disposed between the alternately arranged first recesses and second recesses, are formed so as to be common to the first tubular parts and the second tubular parts.

2. The vehicle door mirror according to claim 1 , wherein

a mirror angle adjusting unit for adjusting an angle of the mirror in up-down and left-right directions is mounted on the end wall, and

the first tubular parts and the second tubular parts are provided integrally with the base plate portion and disposed around the mirror angle adjusting unit so as to be alternately connected with each other.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 26, 2023
From: HONDA LOCK MFG. CO., LTD. A/K/A KABUSHIKI KAISHA HONDA LOCK
To: MINEBEA ACCESSSOLUTIONS INC.
Reel/Frame 064142/0965 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 3, 2020
From: YAMASHITA, TAKEHITO; TADA, MASAKAZU
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA HONDA LOCK
Reel/Frame 054257/0845 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-232291 · Dec 24, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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