Patent ID: 6533425
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: B60R,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
Folding rear-view mirror for a motor vehicle consisting of a base (2) tightly seated on the motor vehicle, a mirror unit (3) capable of swiveling relative to the latter about an axis and a pivot drive unit composed of a motor and a gear, characterized in thata) the gear (9) of the pivot drive unit (7) is a strain-wave gear whose central axis is coaxial with the pivot axis (4) of the mirror unit (3), b) the strain-wave gear contains in its gear housing (20,21) a driving eccentric (25), an elastic annular gear (24) and working together with the latter two coaxial power take-off members (22,23) with different numbers of teeth, c) the driving eccentric (25) has an outer toothed structure (30) having a drive connection to a pinion (36) of the motor (8), d) of the two power take-off members (22,23) one (23) has a drive connection to the base (2) and one has a drive connection to the mirror unit (3).