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Granted Patent B2
US 8,690,363 · App. 13/338,600 · Granted Apr 8, 2014

Vehicle mirror device

Inventors: Takehiro Hamada (Aichi-ken, JP); Masami Kato (Aichi-ken, JP); Masatsugu Ohashi (Aichi-ken, JP); Masao Ayabe (Aichi-ken, JP); Yasunori Hirosawa (Okazaki, JP)
Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho
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Patent No.
US 8,690,363
App. No.
13/338,600
Granted
Apr 8, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a vehicle door mirror device, a base is attached to a door and covered with a base cover. A gasket is disposed on a door panel of the base cover, a seal portion of the gasket seals a gap between a lower side end of the base cover and the door panel. The seal portion is extended from the gasket toward the base cover side. Therefore, even if a dimension of the gap between the lower side end of the base cover and the door panel varies, the lower side end of the seal portion can be suppressed from being separated from an outer periphery of the base cover toward the inner side, the base cover can be suppressed from looking floating from the door panel, and appearance of the gap between the lower side end of the base cover and the door panel can be improved.

Claims (19)

1. A vehicle mirror device comprising:

a support member that is provided on a vehicle body;

a main body at which a mirror is provided, the main body being supported by the support member;

a covering member that covers the support member, a gap being formed between a vehicle body side end portion of the covering member and the vehicle body;

a sealing member that is disposed at a vehicle body side of the covering member; and

a plate-like seal portion that seals the gap by a part at a tip end side in an extending direction of the seal portion being press-contacted to the vehicle body side end portion of the covering member,

the seal portion being provided at the sealing member, and the seal portion extending, from an outer periphery end of the sealing member, in a direction such that the seal portion goes toward an inner side of the sealing member as the seal portion goes toward the covering member side.

2. The vehicle mirror device of claim 1 ,

wherein a position in the seal portion, at which position the part of the seal portion comes into contact with the covering member, is changed according to a variance in a dimension of the gap.

3. The vehicle mirror device of claim 1 , wherein,

wherein a vehicle body side end of the seal portion is displaced toward an outer side of the sealing member according to decrease in a dimension of the gap.

4. The vehicle mirror device of claim 1 , wherein a through-hole is formed in the seal portion at a position corresponding to a corner portion in an outer periphery of the sealing member.

5. The vehicle mirror device of claim 2 , wherein a through-hole is formed in the seal portion at a position corresponding to a corner portion in an outer periphery of the sealing member.

6. The vehicle mirror device of claim 3 , wherein a through-hole is formed in the seal portion at a position corresponding to a corner portion in an outer periphery of the sealing member.

7. The vehicle mirror device of claim 1 , wherein:

a vehicle body side end of the seal portion serving as the outer periphery end of the sealing member comes into contact with the vehicle body.

8. The vehicle mirror device of claim 1 , wherein a bent portion is formed at the sealing member, and a vehicle body side end of the support member is abutted at the bent portion, the sealing member being bent at the bent portion such that the sealing member goes toward the vehicle body side as the sealing member goes toward the outer periphery end side of the sealing member of the bent portion.

9. The vehicle mirror device of claim 1 , wherein a surface of the vehicle body side end portion of the covering member is inclined such that the surface goes toward a side opposite to the vehicle body side as the surface goes toward an inner side of the covering member.

10. The vehicle mirror device of claim 1 , wherein the seal portion is integrally connected to the sealing member in a V-shaped joint, and is elastically biased toward the covering member from the V-shaped joint.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 31, 2012
From: HAMADA, TAKEHIRO; KATO, MASAMI; OHASHI, MASATSUGU; AYABE, MASAO; HIROSAWA, YASUNORI
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO; TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 027626/0180 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-012201 · Jan 24, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120188662A1 · Jul 26, 2012