Patent ID: 8690364
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: B62J

Abstract:
1. A side mirror of a vehicle, the side mirror comprising: a mount seat including a base portion and a support portion provided on the base portion, the base portion arranged to be mounted to a front cowl of a vehicle body; a mirror stay including a basal end, a turning shaft, and a tip end, the basal end being turnably supported on the mount seat through the turning shaft, the turning shaft being fixed directly to the support portion and the tip end arranged to be rotatable about the turning shaft; and a mirror provided at the tip end of the mirror stay; wherein the base portion has a lengthwise direction and the support portion is arranged to support the basal end of the mirror stay; the base portion is arranged at a position deviated outwardly of a center of the vehicle in a widthwise direction with the lengthwise direction of the base portion oriented in a substantially longitudinal direction of the vehicle body and inclined outwardly such that a front of the base portion that is located closest to a front of the vehicle is closer to the center of the vehicle than a rear of the base portion as viewed in a top view of the vehicle; the basal end of the mirror stay is turnably supported by the mount seat such that the mirror stay is moveable to selectively take one of a plurality of positions including a use position and a rearwardly folded position; in the use position, a rearmost portion of the tip end of the mirror is positioned forwardly of an uppermost rear edge of the front cowl in a vehicle length direction; in the rearwardly folded position, the rearmost portion of the tip end of the mirror is positioned rearwardly of the uppermost rear edge of the front cowl in the vehicle length direction; and in the use position, an outermost portion of the tip end of the mirror is positioned outwardly of an outermost end of a grip of a handle of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction, and, in the rearwardly folded position, the outermost portion of the tip end of the mirror is positioned inwardly of the outermost end of the grip of the handle of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction.