Patent ID: 7281822

Claim:
An outside mirror apparatus for a vehicle, the outside mirror apparatus comprising: a mirror with a mirror housing and an illuminating unit within the mirror housing, the illuminating unit comprising: a light source including a plurality of light emitting elements arranged on a flexible sheet member; a base including a mounting section for mounting the light source; and a lens that forms, with the base, a lamp chamber that contains the light source, wherein the light source is mounted on the mounting section in a curved state or in a bent state, wherein the mounting section includes a mounting member for mounting the light source along the mounting surface, and wherein the mounting member is at least one of: a pin that is inserted into a hole cut in the flexible sheet member, a first side of the pin being integrally provided with the mounting surface and a second side of the pin is flattened by to thermal caulking; a first plurality of guide rails in which one set of sides of the flexible sheet member is fitted, and a pair of ribs that latch another set of sides of the flexible sheet member; a snap-fit claw that is inserted into a hole cut in the flexible sheet member, and is hooked into the hole; a second plurality of guide rails in which at least one side of the flexible sheet member is fitted, and a latch that is inserted into a hole cut in the flexible sheet member, and is locked; a third plurality of guide rails in which one side of the flexible sheet member is fitted, and a pin that is inserted into a hole cut on other side of the flexible sheet member, and is subjected to a thermal caulking; a fourth plurality of guide rails in which one side of the flexible sheet member is fitted, and a screw that fixes other side of the flexible sheet member; and a plurality of pins and a plurality of ribs that are provided integrally on an inner peripheral surface of the lens, and a receiving rib that fixes the flexible sheet member by sandwiching the flexible sheet member with the pins and the ribs.