Patent ID: 11904762
Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 27:
28. A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly, the vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly comprising:
a mirror reflective element;
an illumination module comprising a freeformed lens optic and a circuit board, wherein the circuit board has an illumination source disposed thereat;
wherein the illumination source comprises at least one light emitting diode;
wherein the illumination module comprises a unitary module that is accommodated as a unit at the vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly;
wherein, with the illumination source operated to emit light, light emitted by the illumination source passes through the freeformed lens optic;
wherein, with the vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly mounted at a side of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly, and when the illumination source is operated to emit light, light emitted by the illumination source that passes through the freeformed lens optic provides ground lighting that illuminates a ground region located at the side of the equipped vehicle at which the vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly is mounted;
wherein the ground lighting comprises (a) ground illumination of the illuminated ground region and (b) within the ground illumination of the illuminated ground region, a logo formed by the freeformed lens optic;
wherein the freeformed lens optic provides the ground lighting over the illuminated ground region without masking;
wherein the logo formed by the freeformed lens optic comprises a light intensity greater than any light intensity of the ground illumination of the illuminated ground region; and
wherein the illumination module is snap-attached at a portion of the vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly.