Electrically activated vehicle rearview mirror

Abstract

Abstract An electrical rear view vehicle mirror is attached with a mirror carrier (18) to a spherical shell (12) of a shell bearing which has bearing elements (6-16) which have permanent magnets (14, 16) and are attached to a housing (2). As a result, the spherical shell can be held in the bearing elements with a defined degree of holding and sliding friction. Adjustment of the mirror carrier (18) about a centre of rotation (M) is made with the aid of coupling pins (22) on the piston (24), which pins engage on the mirror carrier (18), and by means of two linear motors (20) which are fed with current pulses which are sufficient in each case for the force of the linear motors to overcome the holding friction force of the shell bearing in order to adjust the mirror carrier by a small amount at each pulse. <IMAGE>

Inventors

• 👤 Götz Dipl.-Ing. Heidelberg
• 👤 Andreas Dr. Gründl
• 👤 Peter Dr. Ehrhart

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