US 11,926,262 B2
Adjusting instrument, in particular for adjusting an exterior vision unit of a vehicle
Rudolf Pieter Hoogenboom, Woerden (NL); Jannick Daniël Wijntjes, Woerden (NL); and Jeyakrishna Sridhar, Woerden (NL)
Assigned to MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V., Woerden (NL)
Appl. No. 17/049,815
Filed by MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V., Woerden (NL)
PCT Filed Apr. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/NL2019/050239
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 22, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/209106, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 31, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2020820 (NL), filed on Apr. 24, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0237650 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. B60R 1/074 (2006.01); B60R 1/12 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 1/074 (2013.01) [B60R 1/12 (2013.01); B60R 2001/1215 (2013.01); B60R 2001/1223 (2013.01); B60R 2001/1253 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An adjusting instrument for an exterior vision unit for a vehicle, comprising:
a base, comprising a foot and a pivoting shaft extending therefrom along a longitudinal axis;
a housing which surrounds the pivoting shaft, and which is pivotable around the longitudinal axis of the pivoting shaft in an adjustment range, between at least a park position and a work position; and
a detector, wherein
the base and the housing cooperate via cams which in the work position interlock without mutual rotational play so that the housing is thereby rotation-locked in a single stable axial ground position with respect to the foot, and which upon any pivoting of the housing relative to the base from the work position are driven apart relative to each other along the longitudinal axis by interaction among the cams, and upon further pivoting are supported on each other, so that the housing is in an axially further removed position with respect to the foot than in the work position, and
the detector is configured to verify that the housing is in the single stable axial ground position.