Abstract: The present invention relates to a halogen lamp device for a headlamp. The halogen lamp device for the headlamp has an airtightly sealed lamp enclosure including a light beam passing lens, a reflector for guiding the light beam and a socket opening provided in the reflector, and a holder in which a halogen lamp having filaments inserted through the socket opening of the lamp enclosure and sealed is mounted, and comprises a metallic sleeve member engaged with the holder, and a metallic bulb support formed to have a supporting portion for supporting the halogen bulb in engagement with the outer peripheral surface of a pinch-seal portion of the halogen bulb and a base including a flange fastened to the sleeve member, the bulb support being formed to enable to adjust the halogen bulb at a prepositioned position in the lamp enclosure and fastened to the sleeve member after the adjusting.

Abstract: A light assembly for use on vehicles in which a back plate on which a plurality of light bulbs is disposed, a housing to which said back plate is fixed and lens member disposed opposite to said back plate and which covers the opening of said housing, comprising electroconductive sockets to support said light bulbs, respectively, insulative socket holders to hold said sockets on the back plate, respectively, terminals electrically connected to said sockets, respectively, and an earth wire both electrically connected between said terminals and connected to the earth; said earth wire being made of a coated conductor and stripped at portions corresponding to said terminals, respectively, each of said terminals having formed thereon a pair of tongues which grasps said stripped portion of the conductor.

Abstract: An electric remote control mirror apparatus comprising boss portion mounted on a mirror body fixing the mirror, a concave surface formed at the portion integrally formed with the mirror housing for receiving the mirror body, a pivot connection being composed of the boss portion and the concave surface, a pressure applying member having the surface to be connected to the inner surface of the boss portion and the end portion to be connected to the portion of the mirror housing by passing through the boss portion, a coil spring for pressing the member to the boss portion, thereby to surely support the mirror body within the mirror housing, wherein the rotating resistance of the pivot connection can be easily and precisely adjustable, the rotation of the mirror body around the pivot axis is prevented thereby to avoid vibration and change of inclination of the mirror body.

Abstract: A door mirror device for automobiles, wherein a mirror housing supporting a mirror is urgingly held by a coil spring to a mirror base fixed to a vehicle body. Their respective end portions which are held are provided with marginal portions which are closely attached to each other throughout their respective entire areas. On the inside of the respective marginal portions of the mirror housing and the mirror base, a plurality of projections extend into each other's inside portion in staggered fashion one above the other, so that when the mirror housing is tilted, the respective opposing projections are engaged with each other to prevent any vertical displacement of the mirror housing, and that when an applied external force is removed, the mirror housing returns to its initial position without a fail.

Abstract: An automobile headlamp inclination controller comprises a reduction gear group coupled between a headlamp and a d.c. motor. The d.c. motor has two windings, one for rotating a rotor in one direction and the other for rotating the rotor in an opposite direction. An angular position switch has a pair of fixed conductors and a plurality of trace conductors connected between d.c. motor and a manual operation switch for controlling the angular positions of the headlamp in response to the setting of the manual operation switch. The angular position switch has insulating portions corresponding to the angular positions of the headlamp. The insulating portions are used for stopping the d.c. motor when one of the trace conductors contacts with the insulating portion.

Abstract: A motor-driven remote control mirror device comprising: a mirror body (22) supporting a mirror (21), and a forwardly and backwardly movable rod (56) adapted to be contact with the back surface of the mirror body (22) for inclining the mirror body (22) around horizontal and vertical axes thereof; the center of a pivot (55) formed at the end of the rod (56) and in contact with the mirror body (22) being arranged at a position which is displaced .DELTA.l from the center axis (l.sub.1) of the shaft portion (57) of the rod (56) so that the rod (56) is prevented from being rotated around the axis of the shaft portion (57) of the rod (56), thereby image fluctuation due to minute vibrations can be prevented when inclining the mirror surface.

Abstract: A remotely controlled mirror apparatus having a shock absorbing mechanism and the control mechanism, wherein even when a mirror housing is applied with strong external force thereby to be inclined or fallen, the mirror follows the inclination of the mirror housing for preventing damage to the mirror and further the mirror housing can be positively returned to its initial or normal position.

Abstract: A mirror apparatus having a wiper means intended to wipe a surface of a mirror supported on a mirror holder, wherein the wiper means comprises: a rubber ribbon for wiping the mirror surface; a pair of holders for supporting the rubber ribbon; and a pair of stays for supporting the pair of holders, respectively, to cause them to exert wiping operations, the rubber ribbon being provided with a curvable intermediate portion and a curvable end portion which are resulted from arrangement of the rubber ribbon being supported by the pair of holders excluding an intermediate portion and at least one end portion of the rubber ribbon, the pair of stays being coupled to each other by a shaft member at a site just above the intermediate portion of the rubber ribbon to provide for pivotable actions of these stays, that particular holder which located on the curvable end portion side of the rubber ribbon being coupled to its mating stay at a site located within a groove formed at a corresponding site of the rubber ribbon,

Abstract: An operating wire directly and operatively connected to a lamp casing for swingingly moving same by linear movement of the operating wire and a pulley for converting the direction of linear movement of the operating wire to the direction of swinging movement of the lamp casing.

Abstract: To vary the angle at which the headlight beams are directed only road surface from within the passenger compartment of a moving vehicle, spring forces urging hinged headlight mounting frames foreward are matched by the force of a spring assisting a winder to urge, via a first cable, lever, second and third cables, the frames in the opposite direction such that the force required to move the frames in either direction via a knob in the passenger compartment is substantially that required to move the frames if they were hanging or otherwise under the influence of only their own weight.

Abstract: A mirror angle adjusting device in remotely controlled rear-view mirror apparatus for automobile is arranged that: a supporting plate of the mirror is fixed to the ball of a ball-and-socket joint; a shaft extending from the ball is inserted in the through-hole defined by the two perpendicularly crossing elongated slots of two perpendicularly crossing slidable bars, and the device is operative so that the slidable bars are caused to make reciprocal movements by their mating motors to displace the position of the above-said through-hole, whereby the supporting plate of the mirror is inclined about the ball-and-socket joint. The rotation speeds of the motors are reduced by two sets of worm gears, and the speed-reduced rotations of the motors are converted to reciprocal motions by two sets of rack-and-pinion gears to cause the slidable bars to make the above-said reciprocal movements. Each of the worm wheels of the worm gears contains therein a slipping mechanism for preventing over-load operation of the motors.

Abstract: An apparatus made of a synthetic resin for attaching, in breakaway fashion, a rear view mirror mounted within an automobile. A base member is attached to the automobile body and is provided with a thinned region having numerous tiny holes therein whereby when a substantial impact is applied to the mirror section, the base fractures in the thinned region causing the mirror device as a whole to break away from the base.

Abstract: A breakaway mirror mounting for detachably attaching a rear view mirror device to the interior structure of a motor vehicle comprises a mirror supporting arm for attachment to a mirror at one end and having, at the other end, an upperfaced abutting surface provided with an engaging projection constituted by head and neck portions and a base plate of a synthetic resin having an accommodation opening for the engaging projection. The opening is provided with a pair of resilient engaging strips extending from a pair of opposite edges of the opening, leaving a gap slightly smaller in width than the head portion of the engaging projection.

Abstract: A periscope-type rear view mirror for automobiles which has a planar objective mirror positioned above an aperture formed through the roof of the driver's compartment of the automobile body for reflecting the light rays coming from behind the automobile forwardly and downwardly into the driver's compartment. A planar reflecting mirror is positioned substantially parallel to the objective mirror in the driver's compartment for reflecting the light rays reflected from said objective mirror forwardly and upwardly to a planar eye-piece mirror positioned close to said reflecting mirror and having a mirror surface crossing obliquely at an acute angle for reflecting the light rays reflected from said reflecting mirror into the driver's eye position. Said reflecting mirror is fixed to a stay, and said eye-piece mirror is pivotally secured to said stay which, in turn, is pivotably secured to the inner wall of the automobile at a position close to said aperture.

Abstract: A periscope-type rear view mirror apparatus for automobiles is disclosed. The apparatus includes a roof-top planar objective mirror positioned above an aperture formed in the roof of the driver's chamber of an automobile for reflecting forwardly and downwardly the light rays coming from the rear of the automobile into the driver's chamber, a first planar reflecting mirror positioned in the driver's chamber for reflecting forwardly and upwardly the light rays reflected by the objective mirror, and a second planar reflecting mirror positioned close to the first reflecting mirror for reflecting the light rays reflected by the first reflecting mirror to the eyes of the driver. The first reflecting mirror is supported by a pivotably hinged holder to allow the vertical angular adjustment of the holder, whereby the first reflecting mirror can be used as an ordinary rear view mirror of the type normally installed in the driver's chamber.

Abstract: Seat adjusting mechanism providing a multiplicity of fore-and-aft adjustment positions of a vehicle adjustable seat in which an upper moving guide rail supporting the seat and a lower fixed guide rail comprise two vertical flanges per each rail, the flanges on the upper and lower rails firmly gripping each other thereby preventing the upper rail from being torn off from the lower rail. The mechanism further comprises an improved lock device associated with the flanges on the upper rail.