JPH0433157Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a door mirror whose mirror body is made of elastomer, and particularly to a mounting structure for an elastomer mirror body and a visor of a turnover-type elastomer door mirror.

[Prior Art] Recently, door mirrors attached to doors have been widely used. Although this type of door mirror is superior to fender mirrors in terms of appearance and visibility, the tip of the mirror body protrudes to a large extent from the outermost line of the car, causing the door mirror to come into contact with other objects. may cause an accident. For this reason, turnover-type door mirrors are recommended, which are configured so that the mirror body is tilted toward the front or rear of the vehicle when the mirror body comes into contact with another object.

By the way, in such a turnover type door mirror, when the mirror body is tilted to the forwardmost position, the mirror body 21 is tilted as shown in FIG. The portion 21a collides with the front edge 22a of the mirror base 22, and both the mirror body 21 and the mirror base 22 are damaged. Therefore, in the mirror body 21 of the door mirror to which such a test is applied, when the mirror body 21 collides with the mirror base 22, the mirror body contact portion 21a is required to undergo concave deformation to buffer the impact. , usually made of a relatively soft elastomer. On the other hand, mirror bodies inherently require sufficient rigidity and shape-retaining properties, so mirror bodies made of soft elastomer have their openings periphery as shown in Figure 4. A sleeve-shaped visor 23 made of a hard material is fitted into the portion, and is usually fixed with adhesive. Note that reference numeral 24 is a mirror support screwed to the support protrusion 21b of the mirror body 21, and the mirror 26 is attached to this support 24.
A mirror holder 27 holding the mirror is pivotally supported via an actuator 25.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] However, in such a conventional elastomer mirror body, the visor 3 made of a hard material is adhesively attached to the peripheral edge of the mirror body 1 made of a soft material, which requires a large amount of man-hours. Not only that, but also the adhesion effect of the adhesive was insufficient, making it impossible to reliably reinforce the mirror body.
Furthermore, stable holding of the mirror 26 supported by the support 24 was also insufficient.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an elastomer door mirror in which the visor can be easily attached to the mirror body and the mirror body can be reliably reinforced.

[Means for solving the problem] In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a structure in which a bottomed visor having a shape similar to the mirror body opening is attached to an elastomer mirror body, and a plurality of bottom visors are provided on the bottom surface of the elastomer mirror body. A key-shaped mounting piece is formed, and this mounting piece protrudes from a mounting hole provided on the bottom of the visor to be held and fixed to the bottom of the visor, and a sleeve-shaped mounting piece is formed around the opening of the elastomer mirror body around the opening of the visor. It is designed to be interpolated within a double wall.

[Example] Hereinafter, the present invention will be specifically explained based on the illustrated example.

FIG. 1 is an exploded assembly diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view, in which reference numeral 1 indicates an elastomer mirror body and 2 indicates a visor. The elastomer mirror body 1 is attached to a mirror base (not shown) attached to a door so that it can be raised and lowered in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and is made of a soft material such as synthetic rubber, and has multiple hook-shaped attachments on the bottom. A piece 3 is formed protrudingly, and a through hole 3a is formed in this mounting piece 3.
is drilled.

On the other hand, the visor 2 is inserted into the mirror body 1, and is a box-shaped body having a similar shape to the opening of the mirror body 1. The visor 2 has a sleeve-shaped double wall portion 4 folded back outward at its peripheral edge. Along with being
Attachment holes 5 are provided at the corners of the bottom surface, and screw holes 6 are provided at positions facing the through holes 3a of the key-shaped mounting tongue piece 3 formed on the mirror body 1 on the bottom surface, and screws for attaching the mirror support 7 are provided. A hole 8 is formed.

In the above configuration, when assembling the mirror, first insert the peripheral edge 1a of the mirror body 1 into the double wall portion 4 of the visor 2, and then insert the hook-shaped mounting piece formed on the bottom surface of the mirror body 1. 3 protrudes from the mounting hole 5 at the corner of the bottom surface of the visor 2, and the key portion 3b of the mounting piece 3 is overlapped with the bottom surface of the visor 2 and fixed with the screw 9. In this way, the mirror body 1 and the visor 2 are assembled integrally,
A mirror support 7 is screwed to the assembled visor 2, and a mirror body 11 is attached to this support 7 via an actuator unit 10.
The mirror holder 12 equipped with the mirror holder 12 can be attached thereto.

[Effect of the invention] As explained above, the elastomer door mirror of the invention has a visor inserted into the elastomer mirror body formed in the shape of a box with a bottom, and a peripheral edge of the mirror body fitted into the peripheral edge of the visor. By forming a sleeve-like double wall part, the periphery of the mirror body is inserted, and the mounting piece formed on the mirror body is overlapped and fixed to the bottom of the visor, making it easy to assemble the visor to the mirror body. This is simple and easy, and at the same time, the elastomer mirror body is integrally reinforced with the visor, and reinforcement of the mirror body's rigidity and shape retention is reliably achieved. Furthermore, since the mirror unit can be supported via the bottom surface of the visor, stable holding of the mirror is ensured.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is an exploded perspective view of one embodiment of the elastomer door mirror according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is an assembled sectional view of the elastomer door mirror shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a schematic side view of the turnover type elastomer door mirror, and Fig. 4 is a schematic side view of the turnover type elastomer door mirror. The figure is an assembled sectional view of a conventional example of an elastomer door mirror. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Elastomer mirror body, 2... Visor, 3... Mounting piece, 3a... Through hole, 3b... Key part, 4... Sleeve-shaped double wall part, 5... Mounting hole, 6, 8... ...Screw hole, 7...Mirror support,
9...screw, 10...actuator unit, 11...mirror, 12...mirror holder.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] The structure is such that a bottomed visor having a similar shape to the mirror body opening is attached to an elastomer mirror body, wherein a plurality of hook-shaped attachment pieces are formed on the bottom surface of the elastomer mirror body, and the attachment holes are formed in the bottom surface of the visor. An elastomer mirror body and visor mounting structure in which the elastomer mirror body is held and fixed to the bottom surface of the visor by protruding from the visor, and the opening periphery of the elastomer mirror body is inserted into a sleeve-shaped double wall formed at the opening periphery of the visor.