Patent ID: 8075146

Claim:
A fixing device for a position regulating mechanism for external rear-view mirrors for motor vehicles comprising: a support; a housing configured to be attached to the support which encases or is part of the position regulating mechanism; a mirror support plate affixed to the housing, such that the mirror support plate is operable, manually or electrically, from the interior of the vehicle; wherein the support comprises: an elastic pressure exertion mechanism; a fixing mechanism; wherein, when the housing is attached to the support, the elastic pressure exertion mechanism is elastically distorted such that the elastic pressure exertion mechanism exerts a force on the housing to press the housing against the fixing mechanism, thereby fixing the housing to the support; the elastic pressure exertion mechanism comprising: at least one tab formed from a cut-out portion of a section of a base of the support; wherein, at a location where the at least one tab is attached to the support, the at least one tab is bent towards the fixing mechanism; and wherein the tab protrudes away from the base such that the tab is configured to be forcibly distorted by the housing when the housing is attached to the support by the fixing mechanism.