Breakaway rearview mirror mounting bracket
CA 2106867 C · Owner: Suman, Danny L. · Inventors: Rumsey, Wayne J.; De Kleine, Paul C.; Suman, Danny L.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A breakaway bracket is provided for mounting a rearview mirror (20) to a button (14) on the inner surface of a vehicle windshield (12). The bracket includes a spring clip (172) which has a base portion (173), longitudinally extending opposed, resilient side flanges (176), and a resilient locking flange (184) which extends from the base portion (173). The side flanges (176) have grooves and the locking flange (184) has tabs (191) so that when the bracket is mounted to the button (14), the grooves receive side surfaces of the button (14) in tongue-and-groove fashion, and the tabs (191) firmly engage a bottom surface of the button (14).
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed February 19, 1993 and granted July 6, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 19, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 19, 2015.
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