Patent ID: 6485154
Filing Date: 2002-11-26
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
A mirror device directly attached to a child car safety seat located in a rear seat of a vehicle whereby a vehicle driver or front seat passenger may observe a child in said car safety seat and facing the back rest of said rear seat by means of an image reflected from the mirror device, comprising:a mirror with a perimeter edge and having a reflecting surface on one of its sides and an obverse side; a base module attached to said car safety seat, comprising: an attachment element attached to said child car safety seat; and a connection element, said connection element being removably attached to a stem base end portion, and being removably joined to said attachment element; an elongated, flexible stem interconnecting said mirror to said base module, said stem having two end portions, a mirror end portion and said stem base end portion, said stem being adapted to hold its shape after being bent; and a fabric cover fitted over the mirror obverse side and just covering the perimeter edge of the mirror reflecting surface; wherein said base module connection element has a frustum shape with a small diameter top, a parallel large diameter bottom, and a side wall interconnecting said top and bottom, said stem base end portion being fixedly joined to said side wall, said connection element bottom having a rounded aperture formed therein with a radial flange element about the aperture near the connection element bottom; wherein said attachment element is comprised of a generally disk-like element with a flat, planar attachment side and a receiving side, said attachment side having connection means applied thereto, said receiving side having a rounded element formed centrally thereon, said rounded element having the shape of an approximate two-thirds sphere; wherein said connection element aperture is adapted to matingly join the attachment element receiving side rounded element.