G02B7/1824

MIRROR SYSTEM WITH WIDE RANGING COUPLING MECHANISM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME
20220117415 · 2022-04-21 ·

A mirror system for use with a stroller or wheelchair has a mirror, a support arm coupled with the mirror, and a clamp coupled with the support arm. The mirror is spaced from the clamp along the support arm. The clamp can couple with a wide variety of different support bases. To that end, the clamp of this embodiment has a first member with a first surface and a second member having a second surface. The first surface opposes the second surface and is compressible. The second surface has a concavity. To be removably couplable with a support base, the first surface is movable relative to the second surface.

INFANT OBSERVATION MIRROR ASSEMBLY WITH TEMPERATURE DISPLAY ATTACHABLE TO AUTOMOBILE SEAT
20230302993 · 2023-09-28 ·

Infant observation mirror assembly with temperature display for attachment to a top portion of a rear vehicle seat includes a main panel having opposed front and rear surfaces and a mirror embedded in the front surface thereof. The mirror assembly further includes a temperature display section defined on the front surface of the main panel. A positioning base is coupled to the rear surface of the main panel. The main panel is pivotably attached to the positioning base for allowing rotation about a horizontal axis and a vertical axis. A mounting harness attaches to the positioning base. The mounting harness removably attaches to the top portion of the rear vehicle seat to hold the mirror assembly in a selected lateral and vertical position on the rear vehicle seat.

METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING INTERIOR REARVIEW MIRROR ASSEMBLY
20220024385 · 2022-01-27 ·

A method for assembling a vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly includes providing a mirror mount, a mirror casing, a mirror reflective element at the mirror casing, and a toggle mechanism, which includes a body portion and a toggle lever joined to the body portion. A lower pivot mount of the toggle mechanism is inserted into a lower receiving portion of the mirror casing and an upper pivot mount of the toggle mechanism is inserted into an upper receiving portion of the mirror casing. An outer surface of the body portion corresponds with adjacent outer surfaces of the mirror casing. With a pivot element of the toggle mechanism attached at the mirror mount, and when the toggle lever pivots relative to the lower receiving portion of the mirror casing, the mirror casing pivots relative to the body portion to flip the mirror head between a first orientation and a second orientation.

Adjustable mirror assembly for a boat

An adjustable mirror assembly includes a mirror having a reflective surface. The adjustable mirror assembly may include a first locking mechanism configured to lock a support in a finite number of discrete positions. The support may be movable between a lowered position and a raised position. The mirror may be pivotally mounted to the support and may be configured to pivot about a second pivot axis to orient the reflective surface of the mirror in an aft-facing direction in both the lowered position and the raised position.

FOUR-AXES POSITIONING PLATFORM

A positioning platform providing positioning of component placed thereon onto four axes includes a lower plate, an upper plate, a first adjustment member, a second adjustment member, a third adjustment member, connection members, fixing members, a first fixing block, a second fixing block, fixing plates, slot fixing members, fixing covers, a yaw screw, a spring pin, a spring, and a yaw block.

360 DEGREE ROTATING MIRROR ASSEMBLY
20230288663 · 2023-09-14 ·

An apparatus (100), including: a base assembly (302) configured to be secured to a windshield assembly; a mirror assembly (200); and a pivot arm (304) secured to the base assembly by a first pivot joint (306) and secured to the mirror assembly by a second pivot joint (202). The first pivot joint is configured to enable the pivot arm to rotate 360 degrees around a first pivot axis (310).

Method for assembling interior rearview mirror assembly

A method for assembling a vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly includes providing a mirror mount, a mirror casing, a mirror reflective element at the mirror casing, and a toggle mechanism, which includes a body portion and a toggle lever joined to the body portion. A lower pivot mount of the toggle mechanism is inserted into a lower receiving portion of the mirror casing and an upper pivot mount of the toggle mechanism is inserted into an upper receiving portion of the mirror casing. An outer surface of the body portion corresponds with adjacent outer surfaces of the mirror casing. With a pivot element of the toggle mechanism attached at the mirror mount, and when the toggle lever pivots relative to the lower receiving portion of the mirror casing, the mirror casing pivots relative to the body portion to flip the mirror head between a first orientation and a second orientation.

ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, ADJUSTMENT UNIT, HEAD-UP DISPLAY AND MOTOR VEHICLE
20220283436 · 2022-09-08 · ·

An adjustment device (11) for adjusting an orientation of a reflection device (20) of a head-up display, to an adjustment unit (10), to a head-up display and to a vehicle is disclosed. The adjustment device (10) includes a support structure (13) and a clamping device (14), wherein the clamping device (14) is configured to be displaced along a first axis (R1) and comprises a first clamping element and a second clamping element arranged opposite to the first clamping element and forming a clamping gap together with the first clamping element, wherein the clamping device (14) is configured to receive and clamp an adjustment lever (22, 25) of the reflection device (20) between the first clamping element and the second clamping element, wherein the first clamping element (15) and the second clamping element (17) are made of separate parts (15, 17), and wherein the first clamping element (15) and the second clamping element (17) are rotatably coupled to each other about a second axis (R2).

Optical arrangements with disk-shaped laser-active mediums

Disclosed are optical arrangements including: a disk-shaped laser-active medium, a deflecting device, having a plurality of mirror elements on which mirror faces for deflecting a laser beam are formed, and having a base body on which the mirror elements are fastened, the mirror faces of the mirror elements being oriented in such a way that the laser beam is deflected by a respective mirror face via the disk-shaped laser-active medium to another mirror face. The mirror elements are formed in one piece or are monolithically joined, and have a connecting section that is formed rotationally symmetrically with respect to a center axis and is rigidly connected by a material-fit connection or a direct connection to the base body.

Interior rearview mirror assembly

A method of assembling a mirror head for a vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly includes providing a mirror casing, a mirror reflective element at the mirror casing, and a toggle mechanism, which includes a body portion and a toggle lever joined to the body portion. A lower pivot mount of the toggle mechanism is inserted into a lower receiving portion of the mirror casing and an upper pivot mount of the toggle mechanism is inserted into an upper receiving portion of the mirror casing. An outer surface of the body portion corresponds with adjacent outer surfaces of the mirror casing, and, when the toggle lever pivots relative to the lower receiving portion of the mirror casing, the mirror casing pivots relative to the body portion to flip the mirror head between a first orientation and a second orientation.