Patents by Inventor Marc Agro

Marc Agro has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6010175
    Abstract: This invention relates to a sun visor having a sun visor body which is pivotable about, and displaceable on, a spindle. The spindle is seated in a rotatable, but non-displaceable, manner in a sliding body. The sliding body is mounted in a non-rotatable, but displaceable, manner by a tubular hollow body. The hollow body is embedded in the sun visor body. In order to fulfill the required specification with respect to the radial play and the sliding force between the hollow body and the sliding body, it is provided that the sliding body is formed from a modified molybdenum-enriched POM and has a cutout which is open at the bottom. A compression spring and a slowing-down block are disposed within the cutout. The slowing-down block is subjected to the action of the spring and is supported on the bottom wall of the hollow body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Inventors: Andre Bodar, Marc Agro
  • Patent number: 5951089
    Abstract: A sun visor for motor vehicles, in particular for commercial vehicles, is described, which is mainly intended for placement in the area of the long side of the cab and has a sun visor body (1), which has two seating brackets (2), can be pivoted around an approximately horizontal pivot axis and is displaceably conducted via the seating brackets (2) along a guide rail (4) which is parallel with the pivot axis and has a C-shaped profile, open toward the visible side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Becker Group Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Delus, Marc Agro
  • Patent number: 5533776
    Abstract: The sun visor has a sun-visor body which is swingable around and longitudinally displaceable on a shaft. A detent device prevents unintended axial displacement. There are two contact springs which are insulated from each other and are connected with electric wires leading to an illuminating device arranged in the sun-visor body. One of the contact springs snaps into an indentation on the contact sleeve and the other one snaps into an indentation in the shaft. The shaft (connected at one end to the contact sleeve), consists of a metal tube serving as ground connector through which an electric conductor is conducted. The contact sleeve is by an insulating sleeve. The detent device serves not only for the detent engagement of the sun-visor body but also to supply current to the illuminating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Gebr. Happich GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Agro, Wolfgang Auer, Gerard Hilt, Henning Peters, Sabine Rust
  • Patent number: 5383700
    Abstract: A vehicle sun visor having a sun-visor body with a sun-visor shaft at a corner. One end region of the shaft is seated in a bearing housing in the sun-visor body and clamped against by a spring. The end region of the sun-visor shaft has as a detent an axial region corresponding to the axial extent of the spring. The sun-visor shaft has three circumferential regions of different diameter over the axial detent region including a flat, and starting from one lengthwise edge of the flat, a circular arc region and, adjoining that, a region which is spirally decreasing in diameter toward the opposite circumferential edge of the flat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Gebr. Happich GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Agro, Gerard Hilt, Sabine Rust, Christian Hornung, Henning Peters, Gerhard Zweigart