Patent ID: 7237917

Claim:
A vehicle mirror comprising: a mirror surface; a plate pivot which tilts the mirror surface by tilting the plate pivot itself, which is a plate member that can be tilted around an axis parallel to said mirror surface, and which is provided on the rear surface of the mirror surface; a housing which covers said plate pivot facing to the rear surface of the mirror surface across said plate pivot, which possesses a bottom portion substantially parallel to said plate pivot, and a curved side wall which is brought into contact with the side surface of said plate pivot to guide said side surface; a slide rod which is provided between said housing and said plate pivot, and which moves toward or backward to the rear surface of said plate pivot to tilt said plate pivot; a belt made of a flexible material which moves along the movement of said slide rod; a rotational variable resistor which is provided between said housing and said plate pivot, and whose resistance value is varied depending on the rotation amount of a rotor that rotates according to the movement of said belt; and a signal outputting portion, which outputs a signal corresponding to the tilted angle of the mirror surface depending upon the resistance value of said rotational variable resistor.