Abstract: A rearview mirror has a housing having recesses with supporting flaps, and a courtesy light fixture for a driver and for a passenger located within a respective one of the recesses. Each of the courtesy light fixtures has a lamp, and two lamp holder-electrical connectors supporting and providing electrical connection to the lamp. Each of the lamp holder-electrical connectors is formed by an elastic electrical conducting metal strip having a substantially inverted U-shape so that it can be formed and connected to the electrical wire by a progressive die, and having a first vertical portion, a second horizontal upper portion, and a third vertical portion located one after the other. The first and third vertical portions extend parallel to one another, and the first vertical portion is provided with a device for connecting an electrical wire, formed substantially by a pair of V-shaped flaps which extend outside a space defined between the vertical portions for receiving the lamp.

Abstract: The self-controlled heater for a rearview mirror of a vehicle comprises a semiconductor polymer substrate based on lampblack and consisting essentially of 60% low density polyethylene, 8.5% ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, 20% conductive lampblack having a porous structure; 4.0% of a spreading agent consisting of calcium stearate; 3.0% of an antioxidant; and 0.5% of a coupling agent consisting of calcium titanate, with a high degree of shearing and a low degree of orientation for lampblack aggregations; a silver ink conductor track printed on the substrate, the conductor track including negative and positive poles having interpenetrating adjacent branches spaced at intervals from each other so as to provide a sufficient amount of heat to defog and defrost the rearview mirror; and two terminals applied to the substrate, one of which is connected to the negative pole and the other of which is connected to the positive pole.

Abstract: A fixing device for an inside rearview mirror of a vehicle comprises an arm having a lower end articulately connectable with a mirror supporting frame of a rearview mirror and an upper end mountable on a vehicle ceiling, and means for mounting the upper end of the arm on the vehicle ceiling and formed as a coupling, the coupling including a first coupling part having a substantially horizontal plate, two side wings extending substantially vertically from the plate, a front wing and a rear end which is open, the first coupling part being also provided with two fitting guides extending on and along the horizontal plate and each including a T-shaped wing section and a rib located between the wing section and a respective one of the side wings, the first coupling part being also provided with a U-shaped spring having a transverse branch and two parallel side branches, the coupling further including a second coupling part having a base plate fixable to the ceiling of the vehicle, an inverted U-shaped central rib a