Patent ID: 7533997

Claim:
An outside mirror device for a vehicle, the outside mirror device comprising a mirror assembly that is rotatably attached to a body of the vehicle through an electric retracting unit and a base, wherein the electric retracting unit includes: a shaft holder that is fixed to the base, a shaft that is provided on the shaft holder, a casing to which the mirror assembly is attached, the casing rotatably attached to the shaft, a motor that outputs a rotational force, a transmission mechanism that transmits the rotational force to the mirror assembly, a bearing member that rotatably supports a first-stage gear of the rotation-force transmission mechanism that is coupled to a shaft of the motor, and a fixing member that is separate from the bearing member and that suppresses a radial force on a gear that meshes with a final-stage gear of the rotation-force transmission mechanism, wherein the transmission mechanism includes a deceleration mechanism and a clutch mechanism, the deceleration mechanism including the first-stage gear coupled to the shaft of the motor, a second-stage gear that meshes with the first-stage gear, a third-stage gear that is rotatably and integrally coupled to the second-stage gear, and the final-stage gear meshes with the third-stage gear, wherein the first-stage gear and the second-stage gear are rotatably supported by the bearing member, wherein the third-stage gear is rotatably supported by the fixing member and the casing, wherein the bearing member is elastically held in the casing.