WO2003091070A1 - Retroviseur exterieur pour vehicules automobiles - Google Patents

Retroviseur exterieur pour vehicules automobiles Download PDF

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WO2003091070A1
WO2003091070A1 PCT/ES2002/000200 ES0200200W WO03091070A1 WO 2003091070 A1 WO2003091070 A1 WO 2003091070A1 ES 0200200 W ES0200200 W ES 0200200W WO 03091070 A1 WO03091070 A1 WO 03091070A1
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housing
mirror
view mirror
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inner plate
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Adolfo Caballero Guirado
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Fico Mirrors, Sa
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60Q—ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60Q1/00—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor
    • B60Q1/26—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic
    • B60Q1/2661—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic mounted on parts having other functions
    • B60Q1/2665—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic mounted on parts having other functions on rear-view mirrors
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R1/00—Optical viewing arrangements; Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or video systems specially adapted for use in or on vehicles
    • B60R1/02—Rear-view mirror arrangements
    • B60R1/06—Rear-view mirror arrangements mounted on vehicle exterior
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R1/00—Optical viewing arrangements; Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or video systems specially adapted for use in or on vehicles
    • B60R1/12—Mirror assemblies combined with other articles, e.g. clocks
    • B60R1/1207—Mirror assemblies combined with other articles, e.g. clocks with lamps; with turn indicators

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  • the present invention consists of an exterior mirror for motor vehicles of the type comprising a support attachable to the body of the vehicle and a housing associated with, or integrated in a structural frame adapted to accommodate a mirror whose housing is extended defining the front face of the mirror , in the direction of advancement of the vehicle, and internally delimiting a housing that houses some adjustment means that allow the mirror to be stably positioned in a position suitable for the position and characteristics of the driver of the vehicle.
  • the mirror and its regulating elements are housed in an injection molded housing, in plastic material, whose external surface or finish is usually obtained with one of the following techniques:
  • All these embodiments in their different versions comprise the housing as a single piece, with different variants in terms of color, brightness and texture.
  • the aforementioned technique also suffers from the inconvenience of durability of the external surface finish of the housing, which is easily deteriorated, by impact, rubbing or by the same atmospheric agents (in the latter case imposing requirements for the execution of said finish that have a considerable impact on the total costs of the mirror).
  • the quality requirements of the finish of the external mirror housing determine that in the production process there is a considerable decrease due to rejection of parts that do not exceed the thresholds of said required quality.
  • a folding rearview mirror including in its interior housing components for direction indication, warning signaling, alarm lamp and reflection lamp.
  • a lens that covers said components and in an impact resistant material is positioned in a corner of the body of the housing that covers the front face of the rear-view mirror, in the direction of travel of the vehicle.
  • the objective of achieving the formation of optical effects derived from an external illumination source is not addressed at all, by reflection on a part that covers the interior housing of the rear-view mirror, of the incident exterior light nor does it obtain, using said transparent or translucent casing, an external appearance of the rear-view mirror capable of providing an equivalent print to a wide range of colors and / or shades using a small number of component parts, and thereby being able to adapt the rear-view mirror to the vehicle body finish according to the principles of that invention.
  • the invention aims to reduce the number of parts necessary to provide a wide range of vehicle mirror finishes by providing a mirror adapted or combined with the finish of the vehicle body and with optical effects, improving the quality conditions of the vehicle. production and durability process of the exterior mirror housing, being able to provide additionally, according to well-known technique, signaling elements.
  • said mirror housing either forming a whole with the structural frame that supports the mirror or constituting a cover-housing coupled to said frame and covering the rear face of the mirror or front part of the mirror, in the sense of advance of the vehicle, is constituted by a piece obtained in accordance with a preferred embodiment, injection molded in plastic material, in a resistant material to the impact of a transparent and translucent condition and in general of color, with said housing being provided below a surface that generally delimits or covers said housing, colored or painted which extends partially or totally in opposition to the inner face of said housing , so that with a limited number of colors of said housing and a limited number of colors of said inner surface it is possible to obtain by combination resulting from the superposition of the two colors of housing and inner plate, a wide range of colors capable of combining With the vehicle body.
  • said inner surface is provided by a colored inner plate that delimits the inner housing of said housing and said housing is constituted by a separate cover-like piece removably linked to said structural frame attached to said support.
  • Said inner plate is advantageously obtained by means of a light molded and colored sheet either in the process of obtaining it by injected molding, that is, in bulk, or subsequently painted on at least one of its surfaces.
  • Said housing has a completely smooth outer surface and is advantageously obtained by molding in a plastic material, translucent and colored uniformly directly in bulk, so that it constitutes a highly resistant and stable subset, and that provides its function, that is, the coverage of the rear-view mirror and a color thereof adapted to the finish of the vehicle body even when said exterior surface has received friction or non-destructive impacts.
  • said housing is made by molding in a plastic material, transparent and uniformly colored in mass.
  • said housing has on its inner face a plurality of ribs, grooves, protuberances or an engraving or texturing capable of producing optical effects when passing the light through it and reflected on said colored inner plate.
  • the said colored or painted inner plate is located in the vicinity of the inner face of said housing, or at such a distance from the interior wall of the housing so that it provides a wide strike that allows multiple light reflection.
  • one or more lighting elements may be arranged in the interior housing of the mirror in general supported on said interior plate.
  • Fig. 1 is an exploded perspective illustrating the components of the invention, in an exemplary embodiment in which the housing covering the front part of the rear-view mirror is made in the form of a separate part of the structural frame and where it is used an inner plate, intermediate, juxtaposed to said housing.
  • Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the rear-view mirror, according to the embodiment of Fig. 1, assembled, illustrating the arrangement of its component parts, the inner plate being an injection molded and mass-colored part.
  • the mirror of the rearview mirror has been schematically drawn.
  • Fig. 3 is equivalent to the previous one, wherein the inner plate is a molded part, painted on at least the surface directly opposite the inner face of the transparent or translucent outer shell.
  • Fig. 4 is an exploded perspective view, illustrating the components of the invention, in an exemplary embodiment where the housing covering the front part of the rear-view mirror is made as a separate part of the structural frame, without use an intermediate piece, with the inner face of the housing directly opposite an inner wall that delimits the mirror housing.
  • Figs. 5 and 6 are sections of Fig. 4, with the variant that said inner wall is provided with a layer of paint or colored in bulk during its process of obtaining by molding from plastic material.
  • Fig. 7 illustrates an exemplary embodiment where the mirror housing forms a whole with the structural frame of the mirror.
  • Fig. 8 shows an elevation section of the exemplary embodiment of Fig. 7.
  • Figs. 9 to 13 various possible examples of finishing the inner face of the mirror housing are shown, in order to provide various optical effects.
  • the rear-view mirror comprises a housing 1 associated with or integrated in a structural frame 2 adapted to accommodate a mirror 3 and linked or integrated to a support provided with means for fixing it to the structure of the vehicle (shown in Figs. 4 and 7) whose housing 1 is extended defining the front face of the rear-view mirror in the direction of advance of the vehicle and internally delimits a housing 4.
  • said housing 1 is of color and is made of an impact-resistant material that allows light to pass through and below said housing an inner plate 5 is disposed whose surface that is directly facing the housing 1 is colored and extends in opposition to the inner face of said casing covering it in its almost totality.
  • parts 1, 2 and 5 have openings 6, 6a, 6b for mounting the mirror assembly to said support (not shown in this example) to attach the mirror to the vehicle body. It is evident that such a structure and the principle that inspires it also allow a considerable reduction in the number of parts to be manufactured and stored to achieve a certain number of colors of the mirror housing, reduce manufacturing costs and quality controls all time that the coloring of the surface of the plate 5, does not require conditions of quality of finish and therefore a control of said quality similar to those required in the state of the art in the embodiments where the variable to be controlled is the surface finish of the exterior surface of the mirror housing.
  • said housing 1 being made of an impact-resistant material, provides its structural function together with an appearance of color and integrity of the mirror, despite suffering impacts or various damages due to friction, thereby increasing the durability of the mirror.
  • Figs. 2 and 3 it can be seen that the coloration of the inner plate
  • Fig. 5 can be achieved either with a layer of paint 16 on the surface of the plate 5 that is directly facing the inner face of the housing 1, or by a mass coloration itself in the production process of said piece 5, by injection molded example. It can also be seen in said Fig. 1 that the housing 1 on its inner face has a plurality of ribs, grooves, protuberances 7 (see Figs. In section) or an engraving or texturing (various examples appear in Figs. 9 to 12) liable to produce optical effects when the light passes through it and is reflected on the surface of said colored inner plate 5.
  • a surface of the structural frame 2, or of a support piece 8, which faces the inner face of the housing 1 is the one that will be provided with a coloring that in combination with the color of the housing 1 provides a part of the results provided by this invention.
  • the coloring of said surface, as opposed to the inner face of the housing 1 can be obtained by painting 16 or by coloring the piece itself in its process of obtaining, for example injection molding.
  • the housing 1 forms a whole with said structural frame, an aspect that is best seen in the sectional view of Fig. 8.
  • the housing 1 is directly facing a surface 9 of a 10 piece that is part of the rearview mirror bracket for coupling to the body of the vehicle.
  • the hole 6c of the piece 1 allows the passage of a portion 11, in function of the articulation axis of said support piece 10.
  • the distance between the inner face of the housing 1, generally provided with ribs, grooves, protuberances 7 or an engraving or texturing, is either very close to the inner surface directly facing, colored, for example, of the plate 5, or at a distance such that between said contrast surface and the internal face of the housing a wide gap is defined that allows a multiple reflection of the light.
  • said inner plate 5 could include radiation passage holes of said optional lighting elements.
  • the inner face of the housing 1 can incorporate multiple configurations obtained on the basis of ribs, grooves, protuberances or an engraving or texturing whose structure will directly influence optical effects associated with the use of said housing 1.

Abstract

L'invention concerne un support qui peut être accouplé à la carrosserie d'un véhicule et une carcasse (1) associée à un cadre (2) structurel ou solidaire dudit cadre. Ce cadre est conçu pour loger un miroir qui définit la face avant du rétroviseur dans le sens d'avancement du véhicule, et qui délimite un logement à l'intérieur. Cette carcasse (1) est en couleur et est constituée d'un matériau résistant à l'impact qui permet de faire passer la lumière à travers. Une surface en couleur située sous la carcasse (1), s'étend partiellement ou totalement en opposition à la face interne de cette carcasse (1). Ainsi, on peut obtenir, à partir d'un nombre limité de couleurs de cette carcasse (1) et d'un nombre limité de couleurs de cette surface interne, une grande gamme de couleurs susceptible d'être assorties à la carrosserie du véhicule.
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US6139171A (en) * 1998-03-13 2000-10-31 Reitter & Schefenacker Gmbh & Co. Kg Exterior rearview mirror for vehicles, preferably motor vehicles
US6250783B1 (en) * 1997-04-25 2001-06-26 Britax Vision Systems (North America) Inc. Exterior rear view mirror integral warning light
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DE8236870U1 (de) * 1982-12-30 1983-05-26 Hohe Kg, 6981 Collenberg Fahrzeugaußenspiegel
WO1998003370A1 (fr) * 1996-07-24 1998-01-29 Barros Garcia Alex R Boitier extreme avec signal multidirectionnel pour vehicules a 2 roues, 4 roues ou davantage
US6250783B1 (en) * 1997-04-25 2001-06-26 Britax Vision Systems (North America) Inc. Exterior rear view mirror integral warning light
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US6325517B1 (en) * 2000-02-11 2001-12-04 Su Chang Kuo Rear vision mirror with cold light direction signal indicator

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