Abstract: A panel includes a mirror surrounded on three sides by a generally U-shaped light source for providing illumination of the mirror for use as a vanity mirror under low ambient light conditions. The panel, in one embodiment of the invention is an integral portion of a body of a visor or a panel which is slidably extended from a visor. The U-shaped light and mirror panel can be pivoted when in an extended position such that the light and mirror can be utilized while the visor is in a raised, stored position or in a lowered use position. The panel is, in one embodiment, coupled to an X-shaped bracket with the legs forming the bracket pivotally coupled to one another. One end of each leg is pivotally coupled to one of an anchoring member or the visor panel and the opposite end pivotally and slidably mounted to one of the anchoring member or the visor panel.

Abstract: A visor assembly for a vehicle includes a mirror mounted thereto and a pair of doors which swing open on pivot axes generally orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the visor. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, light means are provided on each of the doors for directing illumination outwardly therefrom such that the visor mirror covered by the doors when closed and exposed when the doors are open, can be used in all ambient light conditions.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a sun visor for an automotive vehicle wherein the foamed body of the sun visor is surrounded by a covering layer of flexible, foil material. The sun visor body has a recess defined in it for holding a mirror or the housing that supports the mirror. The section of the covering layer overlapping the recess is more expansible than the remainder of the covering layer. To make this section more expansible, it is punched with holes defining a lattice of the material, and various shapes holes are disclosed.

Abstract: A cosmetic mirror comprising a mirror housing having a centrally-located aperture therein, lighting means mounted within the housing laterally adjacent the aperture, a mirror assembly comprising two back-to-back mirrors pivotally mounted within the aperture, a rotatable support stand attachment secured to the housing, comprising a rotatable cylindrical support bar having a center aperture section therein, end aperture sections therein, a first set of meshing gears within the end aperture sections, spring means operatively communicating at one end thereof with the meshing gears and at the opposite end thereof with the end aperture sections of the rotatable support bar for outwardly biasing the meshing gears in the end aperture sections, and a second set of meshing sections fixed to the mirror housing at the base thereof or fixed to guide rails slidably secured within said mirror housing at the base thereof for contacting the first set of meshing gears in a meshing arrangement.

Abstract: A sun visor, including a mirror which can be lighted: there is an outer frame secured in the visor body and an inner frame which can be snapped into and out of the inner frame between two pivot positions; an electric contact on the inner frame engages a contact on the outer frame when the inner frame is flipped out; a spring biased latch holds the inner frame in the outer frame; when the latch is released, a spring biases the inner frame to be flipped out.

Abstract: An illumination device for motor vehicles which include a floor mounted console provided within the passenger compartment. The illumination device includes a case having an opening therein and which is detachably provided in the console so that the case can be easily installed and removed from the console, a lamp provided in the case adjacent to the opening and a long flexible power cord electrically coupled to the lamp and to a source of power such that the illumination device can be removed from the console and utilized at various locations within the passenger compartment. The lamp, case opening and console is further arranged and configured such that when the illumination device is installed in the console, the illumination device illuminates an instrument panel of the motor vehicle without casting light on the windshield of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle sun visor is supportable on a vehicle body by a main bearing and by a counterbearing; the vehicle electrical system is connected to contacts in the counterbearing housing; leads to a lamp on the sun visor are connected to contact means on the visor body and the contact means on the visor body are engageable with the contact means in the counterbearing housing; a cover over the lamp includes contacts which are opened and closed by movement of the cover.

Abstract: A visor and vanity mirror assembly in which the vanity mirror is illuminated through electrical circuitry mounted on the back side of the mirror.