Patent Application
20190283675
The present invention is related to a driving auxiliary mirror apparatus, in particular, to a driving auxiliary mirror apparatus for assisting viewing of a rear vehicle.
Automobiles have become one of the most common transportation tools and the traffic volumes on conventional roads are increasing constantly. Under the condition where the density and flow of traffic volume increase, the occurrence of traffic accidents also increases. In addition, among the traffic accidents, a great portion thereof is due to vehicle collisions caused by blind spots of drivers. Despite that cars are equipped with the standard rearview mirrors and the two left and right side mirrors, such mirrors can only provide limited scope of vision, which cannot effectively avoid the generation of blind spots. When pedestrians, objects or other vehicles enter into the vision blind spot of a driver, the driver is likely to be hindered from being aware of the presents of such people or objects, and their sudden appearance in the scope of vision of the driver may still be insufficient for the driver to react instantaneously with adequate stopping actions. As a result, vehicle collisions occur and the safety of lives of drivers, pedestrians and other road users are likely to be jeopardized
Accordingly, a lot of manufacturers have developed additional convex mirrors for attachment onto the side mirrors of vehicles or rearview mirrors of greater surface areas for the purpose of increasing the scope of vision. Nevertheless, such designs can only provide improvements on the scope of vision of the two sides and the rearview for drivers, which cannot improve the scope of vision at the front of vehicles. Consequently, during the time when the vehicle driven by the driver approaches another vehicle at the front, blind spot is likely to occur, which can hinder drivers from determining the distance between the head of the vehicle and the other vehicle at the front. In addition, although there are manufacturers adopt the method of installation of electronic camera equipment at the head of the vehicle or distance measurement and alarm device for alerting drivers about the distance with the vehicle at the front, such electronic equipment is expensive and is prone to damages due to moisture, which is not optimal to economic benefits, and there is a need for an improvement.
In view of the above, a primary objective of the present invention is to provide a driving auxiliary mirror apparatus for assisting viewing of a rear vehicle such that it is able to effectively increase the scope of vision of a rear vehicle driver in order to allow the rear vehicle driver to maintain a safe driving distance with the vehicle at the front with the driving auxiliary mirror apparatus of the present invention installed therein. Therefore, vehicle collision accidents due to blind spots can be prevented, and driving safety can be increased.
To achieve the aforementioned objective, the present invention provides a driving auxiliary mirror apparatus for assisting viewing of a rear vehicle, comprising a base, and an auxiliary mirror pivotally attached onto the base; wherein the base comprises a positioning portion, an extension portion extended outward from the positioning portion and a locking slot formed on the extension portion; the auxiliary mirror comprises a housing, a curved wide-angle mirror secured onto the housing and at least one attachment member extended outward from the housing and configured to pivotally attached onto the locking slot for positioning thereof; and wherein a diameter of the locking slot is smaller than a diameter of the attachment member. Therefore, the assembly member and the locking slot can form a press-fit attachment with each other for firm securement thereof. During the use of the driving auxiliary mirror apparatus of the present invention, the driver can attach the positioning position onto the rear part of the vehicle, and the assembly member is pivotally attached onto the locking slot. Therefore, the driver can then pivotally rotate the driving auxiliary mirror apparatus in order to adjust the location and angle to be viewed by the curved wide-angle mirror. Consequently, a rear vehicle driver at the rear side of the vehicle installed with the driving auxiliary mirror apparatus of the present invention is able to determine the distance between his or her own vehicle head and the front vehicle with ease, which is advantageous to not only reduce the likelihood of vehicle collisions during parking and driving but also provide warning to rear vehicles to maintain safe distance during driving. Moreover, the driving auxiliary mirror apparatus can also effectively increase the scope of view at the two sides of the rear vehicle driver such that the occurrence of collision at two sides of the vehicle can be further reduced; consequently, the driving safety is greatly increased.
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According to the above, the driving auxiliary mirror apparatus 3 for assisting viewing of a rear vehicle can be configured as a whole plate for installation at the rear side of a vehicle, as shown in
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In vie w of the above, the driving auxiliary mirror apparatus for assisting viewing of a rear vehicle of the present invention is able to use the base thereof for firm securement onto a vehicle. In addition, the pivotal attachment between the auxiliary mirror and the base is able to allow the driver to adjust the projection viewing position of the curved wide-angle mirror; therefore, when a driver is driving a vehicle installed with the driving auxiliary mirror apparatus of the present invention on roads, a rear vehicle driver is able to use the driving auxiliary mirror apparatus of the present invention installed on the front vehicle to effectively increase the scope of vision at the front and the two sides in order to maintain a safe driving distance from the front vehicle installed with the driving auxiliary mirror apparatus of the present invention. Consequently, it is able to reduce the occurrence of collisions with the front vehicle during driving as well as to significant reduce the occurrence of collisions at two sides; thereby the driving safety is greatly improved.
