An outside mirror apparatus for a vehicle includes an illuminating unit that includes a light source including a plurality of light emitting elements arranged on a flexible sheet member; a base including a mounting section for mounting the light source; and a lens that divides, with the base, a lamp chamber that contains the light source. A clock is generated on a second power source and used to time a time-out period of a selected number of clock periods. By selecting the same topology for the source-destination pair even if the source and destination addresses are swapped, upstream and downstream traffic may be routed in a symmetrical manner. The lifter section is located near a pivot location on the decompression lever and is generally the same thickness as the weight section.