Abstract: A drive system for a covering device, which can be rolled up or folded, for motor vehicles is equipped with a control device. The control device has a current sensor for detecting the current applied to an electric motor of the drive system in the course of moving the covering device. The control system measures a current parameter at the start of the movement of the covering device and switches off the current to the motor as soon as switch-off criteria derived from the current values measured at the start of the movement have been reached.

Abstract: A roller blind (15) comprising a spring actuated roller blind for the luggage area (2) of a vehicle which includes a positive or compulsory guiding device (27) to which the front edge of the roller blind (17) is detachably connectable. The positive guiding device (27) ensures that the roller blind (17) can be moved upwardly to an intermediate position when the tailgate (8) is opened in order to provide easy access to the luggage area without having to fully roll the roller blind (17) back into the roller blind housing (16).

Abstract: A protecting device for securing a storage space in the interior of a vehicle has a winding shaft associated, both in the pullout and in the rollup direction, with a control device which determines the rotations of the winding shaft as well as a selected protective position of the flat shaped article, and which, independently of the determined position, limits the pullout path for the flat shaped article to a length corresponding to the selected protective position, or releases it to be completely pulled out.

Abstract: The invention relates to a safety net device (9) with a housing (11), in which a winding shaft is rotationally mounted. The winding shaft (13) is pretensioned by means of a spring motor (14) in the direction of winding of a safety net (12) which is fixed to the winding shaft (13). The other edge of the safety net (12) is connected to a pull bar (21) which is suspended in recesses (24) in the car body. In order to minimize the effort required by the user to suspend said device, a holding device (25) absorbs at least part of the pull-back force when the safety net (12) is wound back into the housing (11) immediately after the safety net (12) has been pulled out of the housing (11) to enable the pull bar (21) to be suspended in the recesses (24). The holding device (25) can be released at will in order to roll up the safety net (25) back into the housing (11).

Abstract: A separation device for a motor vehicle, with a flexible flat shaped article, which is held on a winding shaft located in a box housing between a rolled-in rest position and a pulled-out protective position which is rigidly connected to the vehicle with holding devices, in a manner so it can be rolled in and rolled out, where a return spring arrangement applies pressure in the roll-in direction onto the winding shaft. According to the invention, the return spring arrangement is formed by a series or parallel connection of a stronger wound spring and a weaker convenience spring, where the switching is designed in such a manner that, between the rolled-up rest position and a first pull-out position, the stronger roll-up force is applied, and, from the first pull-out position on, for a limited time, a smaller roll-up force is applied, for the transfer into the suspended protective position, and in that the wound spring is associated with a damping element.

Abstract: A automobile rear window shade 9 having a windup roller (15) rotatably seated in a housing (13) in the automobile. The windup roller (15) is pre-stressed in the wind-up direction of the window shade web (17) by a spring (16). Two pivot levers (19, 21), which are pivotably seated on the housing (13), are provided for unrolling the window shade web (17). Couplings (31) between the pivot levers (19, 21) and a gear motor (29) are provided for operating the pivot levers (19, 21). The couplings (31) are flexible over sections of their length, and to prevent kinking of the flexible sections kink-protection structures 44 are provided.

Abstract: A cargo area divider for a vehicle is provided which can be automatically transferred into an operative position or a non-operative position by a motor drive. Monitors for locking mechanisms of the operative position serve to dynamically block a roller blind shaft for the divider. Also, it is provided to monitor a loading level of the cargo area and to trigger an automatic transfer of a divider net or a partition wall into the operating position in response to the loading level exceeding a predetermined amount.

Abstract: A side window blind is integrated in the bodywork of a motor vehicle. The blind can be retracted into the hollow space between the inner lining and the outer skin of the vehicle. The blind passes out through a slot in the window embrasure. In order to close this slot when the side window blind is not in use, a flexible cover strip is connected with the reinforcing strip on the front edge of the blind material, which in the driven-out state comes to lie against the contour of the reinforcing strip. In the driven-in or drawn in state, the cover strip is lifted off sectionwise from the reinforcing strip and lies, closely to the slot, on at least one of the slot edges.

Abstract: A stowage device in the form of a storage receiving net is attached at a vehicle storage space. A supporting structure is associated with an open side of the receiving net, to spread the open side in a functional position that exposes the interior of the pocket.

Abstract: A cargo area divider for a motor vehicle has a flexible planar structure that is equipped in a front end region with a pull-out profile that has retaining elements for detachably securing the pull-out profile on vehicle-mounted retainers in a roof region of the motor vehicle. When the planar structure is in the pulled-out functional state, the retaining elements project upward beyond an upper edge of the pull-out profile; and the corresponding vehicle-mounted retainers are positioned, in order to receive the retaining elements, in a horizontal headliner region at a distance from lateral roof frame elements of the roof region of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: A side window blind is integrated in the bodywork of a motor vehicle. The blind can be retracted into the hollow space between the inner lining and the outer skin of the vehicle. The blind passes out through a slot in the window embrasure. In order to close this slot when the side window blind is not in use, a flexible cover strip is connected with the reinforcing strip on the front edge of the blind material, which in the driven-out state comes to lie against the contour of the reinforcing strip. In the driven-in or drawn in state, the cover strip is lifted off sectionwise from the reinforcing strip and lies, closely to the slot, on at least one of the slot edges.

Abstract: A hard-top vehicle is provided with a roof structure which includes a roof part and a rear-window part connected pivotably thereto. The roof structure is lowered from a closed position, in which it bears in the region of a front windscreen frame and covers the rear-passenger-compartment region, into an open position, towards the tail-end region of the vehicle, via a positive-control device. The positive control device is supported in the tail-end region of the vehicle bodywork and can be pivoted about a tail-end pivot pin fixed to the vehicle, into a folding-top compartment. The positive-control device includes at least one control element which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the roof part in the region of a roof pivot pin. In this arrangement, the control element is designed as a linkage which acts on a guide part, in the region of the roof pivot pin, with a guide rod and a main guide rod.

Abstract: A side window roll-up blind for motor vehicles has a winding shaft which is rotatably supported preferably behind the side lining of the door or of the B-column (3). Through a slot in the door (7), a blind material (31) can be drawn out, which covers the window (21). For this purpose, an actuating member engages on the edge of the blind material (31) that covers the furthest distance. The actuating member is a linear-form element which, depending on the embodiment, is either pull-resistant or pressure-resistant. The blind material (31) itself can be held clamped-open beside the window with the aid of at least one guide rail or of one or two pressure-resistant or bending-resistant actuating members.

Abstract: A rear window roll-up blind for motor vehicles is provided which has a winding shaft that is rotatably supported preferably under the hat deposit area. A blind material can be drawn through a slot in the hat deposit area out which covers the window (3). For this purpose, an actuating member engages on the edge of the blind material (11) that covers the greatest distance. The actuating member is a linear-form element which can be either tension-resistant or pressure-resistant. The blind material itself can be held clamped-open beside the window with the aid of at least one guide rail or one or two pressure- or bending-resistant actuating members.

Abstract: A separating mechanism 13 is provided which includes a winding shaft 19 that is rotatably supported in a housing 14. A separating net 15 can be wound on the winding shaft 19 and can be stretched in the space between the housing 14 of the separating mechanism 13 and the roof lining of a passenger car. Since the winding shaft 19 generates a greater torque that the user must counteract with increasing draw-off of the separating net 15, a drive mechanism 18 is provided that provides that from a predetermined draw-out length onward the drive torque for the winding shaft 19 is switched to a reduced level. This switch-over is either brought about as a second, weaker drive spring 39 is activated, or as a second drive spring 93 is switched parallel to the drive spring 38 for the winding shaft 19. The two auxiliary springs 39, 93 operate, however, only over a limited turning range of the winding shaft 19.

Abstract: A stowage apparatus for a cargo area of a motor vehicle has a cargo area floor equipped with at least one recess. At least one insert frame fits into the at least one recess of the cargo area floor and can be fastened on the vehicle by an attachment mechanism. The present stowage apparatus is particularly suitable for passenger cars.

Abstract: A safety net arrangement is provided with a load-indicating arrangement (25) in order to signal to the user that forces have acted on the safety net which possibly can lead to a prior damage. The load-indicating arrangement (25) cooperates with the anchoring members (21) with which the front edge of the safety net is to be anchored in the vehicle. For the load-indicating arrangement (25), the deformation of these anchoring members (21) is utilized in such manner that a deformation of the anchoring members (21), regardless of whether it is permanent or elastic, going beyond a certain measure blasts the signaling member (42) out of its rest position.

Abstract: A rolling cover has two end caps movable toward one another. The movability of the end caps toward one another and/or away from one another serves to make it possible to easily lock the rolling cover in corresponding vehicle-side receiving pockets or to remove the rolling cover therefrom. An actuating mechanism is present to which the two end caps are additionally joined. This actuating member permits the end caps to be moved in an ergonomically favorable manner by a single hand.

Abstract: A safety net apparatus for preventing objects from being flung from a luggage compartment into the passenger space of a motor vehicle. The apparatus includes a safety net which can be pulled out and used at different pull out lengths from a winding shaft rotatably supported within a housing of the apparatus. The winding shaft includes a blocking device adapted for blocking rotation of the winding shaft as a consequence of an object being flung into the safety net for preventing further unwinding of the safety net from the winding shaft as a consequence of the forces acting on the net. Alternative blocking devices are disclosed which can be either manually operated, or which can be operated in response to acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle, acceleration in the rotary speed of the winding shaft, or transverse forces acting on the winding shaft.

Abstract: A cargo space covering is provided which has axially movable lateral housing parts for the fastening in vehicle-fixed holding devices. A locking device is assigned to at least one lateral housing part, which locking device, when the locking position of the lateral housing part is reached, can be changed from an inoperative position into an operative position in which the locking device exercises an additional retaining force onto the lateral housing part relative to the longitudinal axis of the housing which supplements the spring force.