US 12,134,353 B2
Adjusting instrument comprising mutually cooperating cam patterns, in particular for adjusting an exterior vision unit of a vehicle
Peter Alexander Hamming, Ermelo (NL); and Teunis Hendrik Heikoop, Woerden (NL)
Assigned to MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V., Woerden (NL)
Appl. No. 18/031,962
Filed by MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V., Woerden (NL)
PCT Filed Oct. 15, 2021, PCT No. PCT/NL2021/050624
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 14, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/081012, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2026693 (NL), filed on Oct. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0391260 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 1/22 (2022.01)
CPC B60R 1/22 (2022.01) [B60R 2300/20 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An adjusting instrument for an exterior vision unit of a vehicle, comprising a base with a foot for attachment to the vehicle, and a frame for carrying the exterior vision unit, wherein the frame is attached to the base in a manner pivotable about a pivoting axis, in a pivoting range between at least a drive position and a park position of the adjusting instrument, via a pair of mutually facing and mutually cooperating cam patterns which are arranged on the base and the frame, respectively, wherein each of the two cam patterns comprises cams which are disposed in a circumferential direction around the pivoting axis in successive positions in a ring segment, such that cams of the patterns in the drive position of the adjusting instrument engage each other in a rotation-locking manner and in the pivoting range from and to the drive position adjust over each other, wherein a first cam pattern is provided with a bridge which in the circumferential direction mutually connects spaced cams and with the spaced cams forms a guiding track on which a guide cam of the second cam pattern is supported in at least a substantial part of the pivoting range from and to the drive position.