Patent ID: 9045086
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. An exterior mirror for a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle having a vehicle door with a cavity inside the vehicle door, the exterior mirror comprising a mirror foot lower part disposed in the cavity inside the vehicle door and fastened to a support in the cavity of the vehicle door; a mirror foot upper part having an outer section external of the vehicle door and an inner section in the cavity, a mirror head attached to the outer section of the mirror foot upper part, the inner section of the mirror foot upper part being held on the mirror foot lower part via a multi-point mounting that comprises three bearings on the inner section of the mirror foot upper part engaged respectively with three mating bearings on the mirror foot lower part, the bearings and the mating bearings being held pressed together by a leaf spring that is fastened to the inner section of the mirror foot upper part, so that, in a connecting position, the leaf spring engages over a wall section of the mirror foot lower part, and a separating plane being defined by the mountings between the mirror foot lower part and the mirror foot upper part so that the mirror foot upper part and the mirror head are separable along the separating plane from the mirror foot lower part that is fastened in the cavity of the vehicle door.