AUTOMOTIVE REARVIEW MIRROR WITH CAPACITIVE SWITCHES

WIPO Patent Application WO/2012/006422

A4

A vehicular rearview assembly that has a rounded outer perimeter edge to satisfy safety standards and contains an EC element having a complex peripheral ring, a front surface that is fully observable from the front of the assembly, and a user interface with switches and sensors that activate and configure, in cooperation with electronic circuitry of the assembly, pre-defined function(s) or device(s) of the assembly in response to the user input applied to the user interface. A complex peripheral ring may include multiple bands the structures of which is adapted to provide for specified optical characteristics of light, reflected off of the ring. Electrical communications between the electronic circuitry, the mirror element, and the user interface utilize connectors configured to exert a low contact force, onto the mirror element, limited in part by the strength of adhesive affixing the EC element to an element of the housing of the assembly.

TONAR WILLIAM L (US)
BUGNO MARK D (US)
ROTH MARK R (US)
CAMMENGA DAVID J (US)
MINIKEY DANNY L JR
STRAY JOEL A
NEUMAN GEORGE A

PCT/US2011/043191

March 01, 2012

July 07, 2011

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GENTEX CORP (US)
TONAR WILLIAM L (US)
BUGNO MARK D (US)
ROTH MARK R (US)
CAMMENGA DAVID J (US)
MINIKEY DANNY L JR
STRAY JOEL A
NEUMAN GEORGE A

G02F1/15

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