Patent ID: 7318649

Claim:
An outer rearview-mirror unit for a motor vehicle, comprising: a mirror body; a base element supporting the mirror body, said base element mounted on the outer surface of the motor vehicle, at a front bottom vertex of a side window of the motor vehicle; a counter-base element fixed to said base element at a corresponding position on the inside of a side door of the motor vehicle; a reflecting plate; a support for said reflecting plate which is pivotally supported by said body of the mirror; a single control lever for controlling the position of said reflecting plate relative to said mirror body, said lever being supported by, and projecting from, said counter-base element inside a passenger compartment of the motor-vehicle, wherein said lever is part of an electrical switching device and has a number of positions, for controlling electrical supply to a plurality of shape-memory wires connected to said support for the reflecting plate, in order to orient the reflecting plate relative to said mirror body by means of a change of state of each shape memory wire caused by a passage of electric current.