JPH11142632A - Dead angle auxiliary mirror - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dead angle auxiliary mirror which suitably permits a speedy accident evading action at a no good perspective intersection, etc., by projecting a body image in the dead angle of a road reflector. SOLUTION: A mirror surface body 1 is fitted right below an existing road reflector 2. The mirror surface body 1 is constituted so as to project a body image in the dead angle of the road reflector 2. Namely, in the existing road reflector 2, the dead angle exists and once a body such as a pedestrian or a bicycle enters the range of the dead angle, the entering body is not projected as the body image on the road reflector 2 as far as it breaks away from the range of the dead angle and can not be seen from a driver side of a vehicle, etc., but the mirror surface body 1 projects the body image in the range of the dead angle which can not be seen by the road reflector 2.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a blind spot assisting mirror capable of promptly avoiding an accident at an intersection with poor visibility by projecting an object image in a blind spot of a road reflector.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A road reflector is installed at a roadside end near a T-shaped intersection or a crossed intersection where there is no signal and visibility is poor. The road reflector is mainly used as a means by which a driver of a vehicle who intends to enter a main road from a subordinate road at the T-shaped intersection or crossroads checks the safety of the course when turning right or left.

[0003]

However, the conventional road reflector has a blind spot which is not reflected in the conventional road reflector, and the motorcycle or the like once enters the range of the blind spot (particularly to the right). The problem is that the driver can no longer confirm the motorcycle as an object image reflected on the road reflector, delaying the discovery of the motorcycle, and not being able to quickly perform an accident avoidance operation at an intersection with poor visibility. There is.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to project an object image within a blind spot of a road reflector to thereby quickly perform an operation for avoiding an accident at an intersection with poor visibility. It is an object of the present invention to provide a blind spot assisting mirror that is suitable for making it possible.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mirror which is mounted immediately below an existing road reflector and projects an image of an object within a blind spot of the road reflector. It is characterized by being composed of a body.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mounting member for mounting the mirror body directly below the road reflector, a grip member for gripping the support of the road reflector from the periphery thereof, and one end fixed to the grip member. And a mirror body attached to the gripping member via the attachment arm.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, a mounting bracket for mounting the mirror body directly below the road reflector has a grip member for gripping a support of the road reflector from the periphery thereof, and is directly attached to the grip member. It is characterized by attaching a mirror body.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the holding member comprises a pair of holding portions which are connected by a hinge so as to be openable and closable, and holds the support of the road reflector from between the holding portions. It is characterized by having.

The invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that the gripping member comprises two independent holding portions, and holds the support of the road reflector from between the holding portions. It is.

The invention according to claim 6 is characterized in that the mirror body has a radius of curvature in the same range as the road reflector.

The invention according to claim 7 is characterized in that the mirror body has a horizontally long shape whose vertical direction is short and its horizontal direction is long.

According to the present invention, since the object image within the blind spot of the road reflector is displayed on the mirror mounted directly below the existing road reflector, the blind spot of the existing road reflector can be eliminated. .

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a blind spot assisting mirror according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to FIGS.

The blind spot assisting mirror comprises a mirror 1 as shown in FIG. 1. The mirror 1 is mounted directly below the existing road reflector 2 and projects an object image within the blind spot of the road reflector 2. It is configured as follows.

That is, the existing two-sided mirror reflector 2 has a blind spot A as shown in FIG. 12, and an object such as a pedestrian or a motorcycle B once enters the blind spot A. Then, unless the entering object leaves the range of the blind spot A, it is not reflected on the road reflector 2 as an object image and cannot be seen from the driver side of the vehicle C or the like. In FIG. 2, the real blind spot auxiliary mirror composed of the mirror body 1 projects an object image within the range of the blind spot A that cannot be seen.

The mirror body 1 is constructed as a convex mirror like the existing road reflector 2, but if the radius of curvature is too small, such as a mirror marketed for general garage use in general homes, the object image will not be displayed. Is extremely small, the viewing distance is insufficient, and the user feels uncomfortable. From the viewpoint of safety, the radius of curvature of the mirror body 1 is the same as that of the existing road reflector (1500 mm, 2000 m).
m, 3000 mm, 3600 mm or more).
Desirably, the radius of curvature is 0 mm or more.

The mirror body 1 has a blind spot A having a very limited narrow range which cannot be reflected by the existing road reflector 2.
Therefore, it is not necessary to employ a large mirror such as the existing road reflector 2, and it can be compactly configured as a horizontally long shape having a short vertical direction and a long horizontal direction.

The mirror body 1 is mounted directly below the existing road reflector 2, as described above. For such mounting, a mounting bracket 3 having a structure as shown in FIG. 2 can be used.

The mounting bracket 3 shown in FIG. 1 comprises a gripping member 4 and a mounting arm 5.
(See FIG. 1) from the periphery. That is, the gripping member 4 is formed by dividing one cylindrical body into two vertically.
It is divided and each divided piece is provided as a pair of holding parts 400, 400, and these holding parts 400, 400 are connected by a hinge 401 so as to be openable and closable (see FIG. 3).

In the gripping member 4 having such a configuration,
The support 6 of the road reflector 2 between the pair of holding portions 400
Is gripped from the periphery thereof (see FIG. 5).

The mounting arm 5 has one end fixed to the gripping member 4 and is provided so as to extend from the support 6 of the road reflector 2 in the lateral direction.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 4, a support cylinder 7 is integrally provided on the back surface of the mirror body 1, and this support cylinder 7 is inserted into the mounting arm 5 of the mounting bracket 3 as shown in FIG. Is done. In such an inserted state, when the vertically split groove 700 of the support cylinder 7 is tightened with the bolt 701, the bolt 70
Due to the tightening force of 1, the diameter of the support cylinder 7 is reduced, and the mirror body 1 and the gripping member 4 can be integrated via the support cylinder 7 and the mounting arm 5.

Next, a method of mounting the blind spot auxiliary mirror configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS.

When the road reflector 2 is actually mounted on the post 6 at the roadside end, the range of the blind spot and the range of the blind spot are clarified only after the pole 6 at the roadside end. If the road reflector 2 attached and fixed to 6 is slightly moved, the range of the blind spot also changes.

Therefore, when performing the work of mounting the blind spot auxiliary mirror, first, the road reflector 2 is mounted on the column 6, and the post reflector 6 is positioned and fixed. Then, the blind mirror is retrofitted without moving the road reflector 2. Shall be performed.

Such retrofitting of the blind spot assisting mirror can be performed as follows using the mounting bracket 3 as shown in FIG.

That is, when retrofitting the blind spot auxiliary mirror, first, the mounting bracket 3 is attached to the support 6 of the road reflector 2. As shown in FIG. 3, the work of attaching the mounting bracket 3 to the support column 6 is performed by opening the holding portions 400 and 400 of the gripping member 4.
Depressions 400 provided on each of the open surfaces
The holding portions 400 and 400 are closed while the a and 400a are in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the column 6 to be attached.

When the fastening portions of the holding portions 400, 400 are tightened with the bolts 402, the interval between the holding portions 400, 400 is slightly narrowed by the tightening force of the bolt 402, so that the holding portions 400, 400 Is pressed and clamped from the periphery thereof, whereby the gripping member 4 and the support 6 are integrated with each other, and the work of attaching the mounting bracket 3 to the support 6 is completed.

Next, the mirror body 1 is mounted on the mounting bracket 3 set on the column 6 as described above. This mounting bracket 3
As shown in FIG. 5, the work of attaching the mirror body 1 to the mirror body 1 is performed by inserting the support cylinder 7 of the mirror body 1 into the mounting arm 5 of the mounting bracket 3.
The vertical groove 700 of the support cylinder 7 shown in FIG. Accordingly, the diameter of the support cylinder 6 is slightly reduced by the tightening force of the bolt 701, the support cylinder 7 and the mounting arm 5 can be integrated, and the work of attaching the mirror body 1 to the mounting bracket 3 is completed.

When the above two operations (the operation of attaching the mounting bracket 3 to the support 6 and the operation of mounting the mirror 1 on the mounting 3) are completed, the mirror 1 is placed immediately below the existing road reflector 2. Is attached, but the mirror 1
Is finely adjusted, and the mirror body 1 is set so that an image of an object within the blind spot of the road reflector 2 is displayed without omission.

The fine adjustment of the mounting position of the mirror body 1 can be performed as follows. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, if the support cylinder 7 of the mirror body 1 is rotated around the mounting arm 5 of the mounting bracket 3, the vertical angle of the mirror body 1 can be finely adjusted. In order to rotate the support cylinder 7, the fastening bolts 701, 701 may be loosened. Also,
In this manner, the bolts 40 of the holding members 400, 400
2 and 402, the support cylinder 7 is attached to the mounting arm 5
, And the sliding position of the mirror body 1 can be finely adjusted by sliding the support cylinder 7. On the other hand, when finely adjusting the mounting height of the mirror body 1, the gripping member 4 of the mounting bracket 3 is moved up and down along the column 6 of the road reflector 2, but such vertical movement of the gripping member 4 is pinched. Bolt 40 fastening members 400, 400
2,402 may be loosened.

The blind spot auxiliary mirror of this embodiment is mounted directly below the existing road reflector 2 and comprises a mirror body 1 for displaying an image in the blind spot of the road reflector 2. Thus, the mirror 1 has the road reflector 2
Since the image of the object within the blind spot is projected, the blind spot of the existing road reflector 2 can be eliminated, and this kind of blind spot causes a problem, that is, the discovery of a motorcycle or the like is delayed at an intersection with poor visibility. However, there is an effect that it is possible to perform a quick accident avoidance operation at such an intersection or the like.

The mounting bracket 3 shown in FIG. 2 is mainly a two-sided mirror, that is, one support 6 is provided with two road reflectors 2.
It is convenient to mount one mirror body 1 immediately below each of the two road reflectors 2 when the mirrors are mounted, and when used as a one-sided mirror, since the mounting arm 5 is attached, There is an advantage that the mounting position of the mirror body 1 can be freely adjusted.

Also, in place of the mounting bracket 3 shown in FIG.
The mounting bracket 3 having the structure shown in FIG. The mounting bracket 3 shown in FIG. 6 is different from the mounting bracket 3 shown in FIG.
This type of gripping member 4 does not need to go through an attachment arm 5 of this kind.
This is a configuration in which the mirror body 1 is directly attached to the mirror. The gripping structure of the gripping member 4, that is, the gripping member 4 is composed of a pair of holding portions 400, 400, which can be opened and closed by a hinge 401 as shown in FIG. Description is omitted.

When the mounting bracket 3 shown in FIG. 6 is a one-sided mirror as shown in FIG. 8, that is, when one road reflector 2 is mounted on one support 6, this one road reflector is used. This is applied when only one mirror body is attached immediately below the second mirror.

FIGS. 9A and 9B show the gripping member 4.
A pair of holding parts 400, 400 like the mounting bracket 3 shown in FIG.
May be independent without being connected by the hinge 401, and the support 6 of the road reflector 2 may be gripped from the periphery between the two independent holding portions 400, 400. The mounting bracket 3 shown in FIG. 9A is a type in which the mirror body 1 is directly mounted on the gripping member 4, similarly to the mounting bracket shown in FIG. 6, and the mounting bracket 3 shown in FIG. 9B is shown in FIG. Similarly to the above, the mirror body 1 is attached to the holding member 4 via the attachment arm 5.

In the above embodiment, an example was described in which the blind spot auxiliary mirror according to the present invention was attached to the circular road reflector 2, but this blind spot auxiliary mirror is the same as that of the square road reflector 2 as shown in FIGS. It can also be installed directly below.

[0038]

As described above, the blind spot assisting mirror according to the present invention is mounted directly below the existing road reflector, and comprises a mirror body for displaying an image in the blind spot of the road reflector. In this way, since the object image in the blind spot of the road reflector is projected on the mirror body, the blind spot of the existing road reflector can be eliminated, and the defect due to the existence of this kind of blind spot, that is, There is such an effect that it is possible to quickly perform an accident avoidance operation at such an intersection without a delay in finding a motorcycle or the like at a bad intersection.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1A is a front view showing an embodiment of a blind spot auxiliary mirror according to the present invention, and FIG. 1B is a side view.

FIG. 2A is a plan view of a mounting bracket for a blind spot auxiliary mirror according to the present invention, and FIG. 2B is a front view.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view illustrating a method of using the mounting bracket shown in FIG. 2;

4A is a side view of the blind spot auxiliary mirror shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 4B is a plan view.

FIG. 5 is a rear view of the blind spot auxiliary mirror shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6A is a plan view showing another embodiment of a blind spot auxiliary mirror mounting bracket, and FIG. 6B is a side view.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory view illustrating a method of using the mounting bracket shown in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8A is a front view showing another embodiment of the blind spot auxiliary mirror according to the present invention, and FIG. 8B is a side view.

FIGS. 9A and 9B are plan views showing another embodiment of a blind spot auxiliary mirror mounting bracket.

FIG. 10A is a front view showing another embodiment of the blind spot auxiliary mirror according to the present invention, and FIG. 10B is a side view.

11A is a front view showing another embodiment of the blind spot auxiliary mirror according to the present invention, and FIG. 11B is a side view.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a blind spot of an existing road reflector.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 mirror body 2 road reflector 3 mounting bracket 4 gripping member 5 mounting arm 6 support 7 support cylinder 400 holding section 400a recess 401 401 hinge 402 bolt 700 vertical slot 701 bolt A blind spot B motorcycle C vehicle

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A blind spot assisting mirror which is attached immediately below an existing road reflector and comprises a mirror which projects an object image within a blind spot of the road reflector. 2. A mounting member for mounting a mirror body directly below a road reflector, a holding member for holding a support of the road reflector from the periphery thereof, and a mounting arm having one end fixed to the holding member. The blind spot assisting mirror according to claim 1, further comprising: a mirror body attached to the holding member via an attachment arm. 3. A mounting bracket for mounting a mirror body directly below a road reflector, has a gripping member for gripping a support of the road reflector from the periphery thereof, and the mirror body is directly attached to the gripping member. The blind spot auxiliary mirror according to claim 1, wherein: 4. A gripping member comprising a pair of holding portions connected by a hinge so as to be openable and closable, and holding the support of the road reflector from between the holding portions. The blind spot auxiliary mirror according to claim 2. 5. The gripping member according to claim 2, wherein the gripping member comprises two independent holding portions, and holds the support of the road reflector from between the holding portions. Blind spot auxiliary mirror. 6. The auxiliary mirror according to claim 1, wherein the mirror has a radius of curvature in the same range as the road reflector. 7. The auxiliary mirror according to claim 1, wherein the mirror body has a horizontally long shape whose vertical direction is short and its horizontal direction is long.