Patent ID: 8439510

Claim:
An apparatus for viewing an oblique forward area of a vehicle, comprising: a sub-window pane, supported by a front pillar of the vehicle and a sub-pillar extending downwardly from partway along the front pillar, for separating an inside and outside of a passenger compartment; a mirror housing disposed in a vicinity of the sub-window pane and housing a door mirror for displaying a rear of the vehicle; a first reflective mirror, provided on a front surface of the mirror housing, for displaying the oblique forward area of the vehicle; and a second reflective mirror, disposed on a surface of the front pillar exposed to an interior of the passenger compartment, for displaying the oblique forward area of the vehicle by reflecting light reflected by the first reflective mirror toward a vehicle occupant through the sub-window pane; wherein the sub-window pane is disposed further outward in a vehicle widthwise direction than a line passing over cross-sectional vehicle-widthwise direction centers of the front pillar and the sub-pillar, and the second reflective mirror has an outside edge positioned in a vicinity of the sub-window pane.