Patent ID: 7416319

Claim:
An illumination device for vanity mirrors of motor vehicle sun visors actuated by a sliding cover that covers the mirror at a user's will, the illumination device comprising: a) a rotation shaft about which the sun visor turns to be in a shading position or a storage position, said rotation shaft connecting the sun visor to a vehicle body, said rotation shaft comprising a first conducting track and a second conducting track; b) a flexible conducting laminar element comprising: i) a loop configuration having an open part on a top; said open part of said loop configuration having a first end constantly in contact with said first conducting track and a second end for contacting said second conducting track to close an electric circuit; and ii) a finger on a lower end of said flexible conducting laminar element that always contacts one of two levels of a stepped upper level of the sliding cover that covers the mirror; c) an attachment means for attaching said flexible conducting laminar element on a lower side, on a half opposite said finger, to the sun visor; and d) a support pin disposed on a top of said flexible conducting laminar element and attached to the sun visor, said support pin allowing an upper free end of said flexible conducting laminar element to swivel when the sliding cover is moved, provoking or not a contact between said second end of said flexible conducting laminar element and said second conducting track of said rotation shaft.