US 12,405,443 B2
Interior rearview mirror assembly with overmolded metal mount and anti-camout tab
Kurtis M. Larson, Grand Haven, MI (US); Matthew V. Steffes, Grand Rapids, MI (US); and John T. Uken, Jenison, MI (US)
Assigned to Magna Mirrors of America, Inc., Holland, MI (US)
Filed by Magna Mirrors of America, Inc., Holland, MI (US)
Filed on Apr. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/659,849.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/201,236, filed on Apr. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0334348 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 7/182 (2021.01); B60R 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 7/182 (2013.01) [B60R 1/04 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly, the vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly comprising:
a mounting assembly comprising a mirror mount and a mounting arm, wherein the mirror mount is configured to mount at a mirror mounting button adhesively attached at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly;
wherein the mirror mount slidably engages the mirror mounting button to attach the mirror mount at the in-cabin side of the windshield of the vehicle;
a mirror head comprising a mirror reflective element;
wherein the mounting arm has a first end and a second end distal from the first end;
wherein the first end of the mounting arm is pivotally attached at the mirror mount via a first pivot joint;
wherein the mirror head is attached at the second end of the mounting arm;
wherein the first pivot joint comprises a ball member at the first end of the mounting arm pivotally received in a socket element of the mirror mount;
wherein the mirror mount comprises an anti-camout element protruding from an interior surface of the socket element, and wherein the anti-camout element is at least partially received in a recess of the ball member to limit pivotal movement of the ball member within the socket element when the ball member engages the anti-camout element;
wherein the mirror mount comprises a metallic support element forming at least a portion of the anti-camout element;
wherein the metallic support element is disposed within a plastic body portion of the mirror mount, and wherein the metallic support element comprises a base portion and a support tab protruding from the base portion;
wherein the base portion of the metallic support element is disposed at a receiving portion of the plastic body portion of the mirror mount;
wherein the receiving portion, when the mirror mount is mounted at the mirror mounting button, slidably engages the mirror mounting button; and
wherein the support tab of the metallic support element is disposed within a plastic portion of the anti-camout element, and wherein the support tab of the metallic support element provides a core portion of the anti-camout element.