US 12,291,149 B2
Door mirror device
Yukihiro Moriyama, Hiroshima (JP); Eisuke Kuramoto, Hiroshima (JP); and Masato Ikeda, Hiroshima (JP)
Assigned to MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed by MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/820,464.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-168305 (JP), filed on Oct. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0110322 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 1/074 (2006.01); B60R 1/072 (2006.01); B60W 10/30 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 1/074 (2013.01) [B60R 1/072 (2013.01); B60W 10/30 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A door mirror device of a side door of a vehicle, comprising:
a door-mirror body portion provided with a mirror to obtain a rearward visual field of the vehicle;
a mirror base having a tip-end portion fixed to the door-mirror body portion and a base-end portion provided away from the tip-end portion;
a rotational support axis connected to the base-end portion of the mirror base and rotatably supporting the door-mirror body portion and the mirror base between a mirror-use position where the mirror is visible from a cabin inside and a mirror-storage position which is located on an inward side, in a vehicle width direction, of the mirror-use position;
an electromotive rotational unit provided to rotate the door-mirror body portion and the mirror base between the mirror-use position and the mirror-storage position around an axis line of the rotational support axis; and
a control portion to control the electromotive rotational unit,
wherein said electromotive rotational unit is provided inside the side door, and said control portion controls said electromotive rotational unit such that said door-mirror body portion and said mirror base are rotated from said mirror-use position to said mirror-storage position when a storage active signal to start a storage operation is inputted, said door-mirror body portion and said mirror base are rotated from said mirror-storage position to said mirror-use position when a deployment active signal to start a deployment active operation is inputted, and said door-mirror body portion and said mirror base are rotated in a prescribed minute range centered at the mirror-use position so as to change an angle of the mirror when a mirror-face adjusting signal to adjust a mirror face is inputted.