Roll Type Patents (Class 160/370.22)
  • Patent number: 11913282
    Abstract: Implementations of a roller blind assembly for angled architectural openings are provided. In some implementations, the roller blind assembly comprises a frame, a roller tube assembly, a roller blind sheet, a chain assembly, a track assembly, an extension assembly, an actuator and clutch assembly, and a motor assembly. In some implementations, a method of using the roller blind assembly comprises installing the roller blind assembly to fully fit the perimeter of an angled architectural opening and operating the roller blind assembly to fully cover the opening of the angled architectural opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventor: Joseph S. McKee
  • Patent number: 11660938
    Abstract: A shading device for a vehicle roof includes at least one shading length that can be rolled up for shading a light-permeable and/or open area of the vehicle roof, a tension bow that is movably mounted in a direction of travel (V), to which the shading length-is fastened, a drive mechanism that can be operated by a drive motor to move the tension and a control unit for activating the drive motor. The shading device includes at least one opposing force element for restricting a traveling movement of the tension bow, and the control unit is designed to activate the drive motor based on an opposing force when the tension bow reaches an end position (P1, P2) defined by the stop element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Josef Appel
  • Patent number: 10889248
    Abstract: The invention is a system for covering a luggage compartment having two lateral supports and a front panel pivotably connected to the supports. A rear panel is also pivotably connected to the lateral supports A carriage is slidably mounted on a longitudinal guide rail rigidly connected to a first of the supports. Two cable sections each having an end associated, respectively, with either side of the carriage, and being kept permanently tensioned along a longitudinal axis is also included with a wheel actuated by a motor. The wheel is rigidly connected to the sections in order to allow one or the other, as desired, to be pulled in a longitudinal direction, in order to move the carriage forwards or backwards in order to move the panels to allow access to the compartment or to cover it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: TREVES PRODUCTS, SERVICES & INNOVATION
    Inventors: Laurent Crochet, Alicia Lecomte
  • Patent number: 10661638
    Abstract: A shade arrangement for vehicles, in particular for a side window of a car door, the shade arrangement including a roll up blind web that is movable from a pulled in position into a shading pulled out position; a winding shaft at which the roll up blind web is attached with a first edge; a pull out profile at which the roll up blind web is attached with a second edge; a first drive which actuates the winding shaft for rolling up the roll up blind web; a lifting rod which is removably attachable at the pull out profile; a second drive through which the lifting rod arranged at the pull out profile moves the roll up blind web by a linear movement between the pulled in position and the pulled out position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Macauto Industrial Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Holger Seel, Sven-Oliver Seel
  • Patent number: 10603987
    Abstract: A shade arrangement for vehicles, in particular for a side window of a car door, the shade arrangement including a roll up blind web that is movable from a pulled in position into a shading pulled out position; a winding shaft at which the roll up blind web is attached with a first edge; a pull out profile at which the roll up blind web is attached with a second edge; a first drive which actuates the winding shaft for rolling up the roll up blind web; a lifting rod which is removably attachable at the pull out profile; a second drive through which the lifting rod arranged at the pull out profile moves the roll up blind web in a linear motion between the pulled in position and the pulled out position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Macauto Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Holger Seel, Sven-Oliver Seel
  • Patent number: 10577858
    Abstract: A method of operating a motorized window covering is presented wherein in response to a standard movement command power is supplied to a motor in a continuous or generally continuous manner thereby moving the shade material from a start position to an end position in a generally continuous manner. However, in doing so, the motor rotates at a fast rate thereby causing elevated noise levels. In response to an automated movement command, power is supplied to the motor by cycling power to the motor between a powered state and an unpowered state thereby moving the shade material from a start position to an end position in an incremental manner. While moving the shade material in this incremental manner is slower, it is substantially quieter. The preferred mode of operation is selected based on whether the movement command is a standard movement command or an automated movement command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: CURRENT PRODUCTS CORP.
    Inventors: Willis Jay Mullet, Daniel T. Matthews, Richard Scott Hand
  • Patent number: 10527139
    Abstract: A drive device for a shade for vehicles, the drive device comprising a slider that is movable between a first position and a second position; a rope at which the slider is attached and configured to move the slider between the first position and the second position; a rod mounted at the slider and supported by the slider along a movement path of the rod; a deflection device that deflects the rope coming out of the slider in a first direction into a second opposite direction and that is arranged laterally from the movement path of the rod; a housing in which the deflection device is arranged; a support or guide tube in which the slider is movable and which is arranged at the housing; and a return device which displaces the rope that is deflected into the opposite direction in a direction towards the movement path of the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Macauto Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Holger Seel, Sven-Oliver Seel
  • Patent number: 10442276
    Abstract: A door curtain mounting structure for a vehicle includes a door panel having a door inner panel disposed and a door outer panel disposed inside and outside thereof, respectively, in a width direction of the vehicle, and a receiving space formed between the door inner panel and the door outer panel; a door frame coupled to the door panel in order to form a door window opened and closed by a window glass; a door trim disposed inside the door inner panel in the width direction of a vehicle; and a door curtain housing in which a door curtain blocking the window glass inside in the width direction of a vehicle is received, the door curtain coupled to the door trim and disposed between the door inner panel and the door outer panel, so that the door curtain is coupled to the door frame to increase a door stiffness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naresh Kunapareddy, Si Yun Kim, Pavan Kumar Ch
  • Patent number: 10357970
    Abstract: An inkjet printhead includes: a manifold having a plurality of ink outlets defined in a manifold surface; a shim adhesively bonded to the manifold surface, the shim having apertures aligned with the ink outlets; a first row of printhead chips adhesively bonded to the shim; and a second row of printhead chips adhesively bonded to the shim. The shim is a one-part common shim for mounting all printhead chips of the first and second row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Memjet Technology Limited
    Inventors: Jason Thelander, David Burke, Andrew Thomas
  • Patent number: 10272756
    Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a weatherstrip and garnish assembly for use with a vehicle door that includes a body flange. The weatherstrip and garnish assembly can include a weatherstrip assembly that has a weatherstrip configured to be secured to the body flange of the vehicle door. The weatherstrip can include a curved portion. A sunshade garnish can be spaced from the curved portion of the weatherstrip to define a gap therebetween. A weatherstrip garnish can be disposed between the sunshade garnish and the weatherstrip so as to cover the gap. A first connector can connect the sunshade garnish to the weatherstrip garnish. A second connector can connect the weatherstrip garnish to the weatherstrip assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Generoso Tan Sia, Jr., Jason Dilley
  • Patent number: 10118651
    Abstract: Interior panel and body assembly features for vehicles that include the placement of panel tabs on vehicle interior panels, with the panel tabs on the interior panels having features for interactive attachment of the interior panels with vehicle body portions via corresponding body tabs on each vehicle body portion. The interactive attachment aspects of the panel tabs operating with the body tabs may further assist in properly locating each interior panel relative to a vehicle body portions. When the interior panel is installed on the vehicle body, each panel tab attaches the interior panel to the corresponding body portion via a body tab, so as to enhance the strength of the attachment, such as at an edge location where standard attachment clips cannot be used, thereby improving positioning and good fit and finish, while maximizing interior space capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexander B Dureiko, Ryan M Stokes, Christopher D Hinz, Andrew Edward Barrow
  • Patent number: 9649914
    Abstract: Shading device including a shading structure displaceable between a lowered rest position and a deployed shading position in lateral guiding rails fixed to the vehicle. The shading structure is lowered through a passage into an accommodation chamber, wherein the passage is closed by a pivotably mounted lid. A control mechanism transfers the lid, in response to movement of a drive transmission, into an opened position. The control mechanism includes a control slider movably mounted transverse to the direction of displacement of the shading structure and in operative mechanical connection to the lid. The control mechanism includes a deflection device coupling the control slider, upon a movement of the drive transmission, to the drive transmission such that the control slider, upon movement of the drive transmission from the rest position of the shading structure in the direction of the shading position, transfers the closing lid to the opened position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Horst Meier
  • Patent number: 9616733
    Abstract: A shading device for a rear window arrangement of a motor vehicle having a shading structure arranged so as to be shiftable relative to the rear window arrangement between a compactly stored inoperative position and an extended shading position, and with a dimensionally stable extension profile arranged on an end region, at the front in the extension direction, of the shading structure, the extension profile being guided so as to be shiftable in parallel in vehicle-mounted, lateral guide arrangements. The extension profile having two different visible contours positionable into different functional positions by rotation about a longitudinal axis of the extension profile, is known. The extension profile is mounted on opposite end sides by respective ball and socket joint so as to be pivotable about the longitudinal axis relative to lateral guide elements guided in the lateral guide arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Matthias Maier
  • Patent number: 9284741
    Abstract: A cover apparatus includes a frame, a cover assembly at least partially supported by the frame, and a drive mechanism. The cover assembly includes a generally planar main portion, and at least one edge portion adjoining a side edge of the main portion. The drive mechanism engages the edge portion and moves the cover assembly relative to the frame to advance or retract the cover assembly. The drive mechanism may include first engagement elements, and the edge portion may include second engagement elements that interengage with the first engagement elements. The cover apparatus may be used for covering a pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: PALLADIUM PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & DESIGN INC.
    Inventors: Richard Anthony Scheps, Alan Gaensbauer, Robert Rotenberg
  • Patent number: 9186959
    Abstract: A sunshade assembly for installation on a window frame includes a curtain, a bar connected to the curtain, a pivot connection member disposed inside the bar, an abutment member disposed inside the pivot connection member, a transmission rod extending into the pivot connection member to engage the abutment member, and a drive unit driving the transmission rod to move. When the drive unit drives the transmission rod to move upward, the transmission rod pushes upward the abutment member to move upward the bar and to thereby stretch the curtain. When the bar abuts against the window frame, the transmission rod is not deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: MACAUTO INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Paul Lin, Chi-Tsai Fang
  • Patent number: 9038699
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blind assembly comprising a blind web (11) which is provided with one respective flexible, flat guide strip (10) along both lateral edge areas. Said guide strip (10) is guided inside a guide along the direction of extension of the blind in order to stretch the blind web. The base of the guide strip (10) is guided parallel to adjacent areas of the blind web. The inventive blind assembly further comprises at least one blind coupling with which at least one of the guide strips engages in a removable, positive manner via an entraining element (12) and via which the guide strip can be extended along with the blind web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Alexander Bergmiller, Martin Pollak, Sebastian Glasl, Robert Würl, Andreas Rockelmann, Frank Koslowski, Steven Henry Klotz, Anthony McCall
  • Patent number: 9038695
    Abstract: A window protection apparatus on a working machine features a reel rotatably supported at an exterior of the operator cabin in a position proximate a top end of the window for rotation about a horizontal axis and a flexible window covering wound on the reel such that rotation of the reel in a first direction deploys a free end of the window covering from the reel, and rotation of the reel in an opposite second direction retracts the free end of the window covering back toward said reel. A retaining member is mounted at the exterior of the operator cabin in a position proximate a bottom end of the window, and a retaining element is attached to the window covering proximate the free end thereof for engagement with the retaining member to secure the window covering in a closed position spanning downwardly from the reel over the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Inventor: Jed R. T. Hutson
  • Patent number: 9033022
    Abstract: A sunshade device includes a pair of rails disposed so as to have a gradually decreasing spacing therebetween, a windup device disposed between proximal ends of the pair of rails, a shade configured to be drawn from and housed in the windup device, a stay attached to a short side edge of the shade, a pair of shafts respectively inserted into the stay so as to move along a longitudinal direction thereof at both ends of the stay, and a pair of runners respectively provided so as to move along the pair of rails and coupled to the pair of shafts. Provided at least on one end side of the stay is a rotation mechanism causing the stay to change its position upon reception of a force by which the shafts move along the longitudinal direction of the stay as the pair of runners move along the pair of rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: ASHIMORI INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naochika Katada
  • Patent number: 9004146
    Abstract: A roller blind device for a motor vehicle having a flexible roller blind sheet held windably and unwindably on a roller blind shaft, a dimensionally stable pulling-out section assigned to the roller blind sheet at an end area which is at the front in the pulling-out direction, at least one pulling/pushing apparatus continuously rotating and in operative connection with the roller blind shaft and to which the pulling-out section is fastened, and having lateral guide section arrays in which lateral edges of the roller blind sheet are guided. The pulling/pushing apparatus is guided in a guide track integrated in the guide section array and transversely movable together with the guide section array for setting of the function position, in particular before initial operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gwenole Zeo, Wolfgang Stark, Guenter Renz, Sascha Kircher
  • Patent number: 8997831
    Abstract: A sunshade assembly includes two rail seats, a shade member and a guide unit. The shade member has a main portion and two foldable portions connected respectively to left and right sides of the main portion. The guide unit includes two guide members mounted respectively to the rail seats. Each guide member has a guide groove for receiving a portion of a respective one of the foldable portions of the shade member, and a guide surface formed in the guide groove. When the shade member is unwound, the foldable portions pass through the guide grooves and are urged to be folded through guidance of the guide surfaces before entering and being confined in the rail seats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Macauto Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Paul Lin
  • Publication number: 20150075737
    Abstract: A window shade system is provided. The system includes a frame coupleable adjacent to a window. The frame includes first and second side members. At least two shade roll assemblies are coupled to the frame. The at least two shade roll assemblies are selectively movable along the first and second side members independently of each other. A shade member is coupled to the at least two shade roll assemblies. In addition, the shade member is selectively variably permeable to light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Brent Nathaniel Gaertner, John Anthony Horan
  • Patent number: 8978309
    Abstract: A door-sash hook member is attached to a surface of a door sash of a vehicular door. The door-sash hook member includes a superposed surface superposed on the surface of the door sash, and a circumferential wall surface standing from the superposed surface to form a circumferential edge of the superposed surface. At least a part of the circumferential wall surface is a welded face weldable to the surface of the door sash with a welding material. The circumferential wall surface includes a projecting portion adjacent to the welded face, and the projecting portion protrudes outwardly compared to the welded face along a plane of the superposed surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joji Goto
  • Publication number: 20150059994
    Abstract: A roller-blind shaft for a protective apparatus in a vehicle interior on which at least one flexible flat structure is held such that it can be wound up and unwound, the roller-blind shaft having a curved bearing axle and sleeve-like roller-blind shaft sections which are mounted rotatably on the bearing axle and are connected axially to one another to form a rotationally locked unit. In each case at least one axially inserted and axially secured sliding ring is provided for each roller-blind shaft section for mounting the roller-blind shaft sections on the bearing axle, which sliding ring mounts the roller-blind shaft section in a contactless manner at a radial spacing from the bearing axle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Guenter RENZ, Cristian WINKLER
  • Patent number: 8960261
    Abstract: A vehicle window shade system for providing shade to the interior of a vehicle. A first guide rail and a second guide rail are attached to a vehicle window frame. The shade is supported by a top support bar and a bottom support bar. At least a part of the top support bar and/or the bottom support bar is made from elastic materials or telescoping parts such that the support bars may be extended to reach the varying distances between the first side rail and the second side rail. The shade expands by pressing a switch that triggers a motor to uncoil a cable and move the top support bar up the first and second guide rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Inventor: Terile Williams
  • Patent number: 8955575
    Abstract: A shade arrangement for a motor vehicle with at least one shade length and at least one roller tube for taking-up and unrolling the shade length, each side edge of the shade length having at least one flexible, flat guide strip which extends along the drawing direction of the shade and is guided in a guide. The guide contains a connecting link in which the guide strip is guided, and which has an exit gap through which the shade length emerges from the guide, the guide strip being guided such that its base surface is guided essentially parallel to the adjacent region of the shade length. The shaping and dimensioning of the exit gap and guide strip are such that the guide strip cannot emerge from the guide by itself. The shade length is connected to the roller tube via at least one constant force spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Webasto AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Glasl, Christian Adlhoch, Horst-Martin Schulz, Engelbert Hirschvogel, Alexander Bergmiller, Philip Oerke
  • Patent number: 8955903
    Abstract: A roll blind for a vehicle, including: a guide frame formed in an inner circumference of an opening formed in a sun roof of the vehicle; a fixing shaft fixed to either of anterior and posterior areas of the vehicle on the guide frame; an opening shaft disposed on the other one of the anterior and posterior areas to which the fixing shaft is fixed; a blind disposed to selectively cover the opening according to a sliding operation of the opening shaft; and a pressing unit disposed between the fixing shaft and the opening shaft, sliding along the guide frame, rolling a central portion of the blind upward from an upper side of the blind in right and left directions of the vehicle, simultaneously wrapping two sides of the blind and simultaneously providing tension to the blind that moves from the anterior and posterior areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Webasto Donghee Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Je-Hyeon Park, Seung-Min Yun, Eun-Bum Kim, Myung-Kwon Jang
  • Patent number: 8944485
    Abstract: A window shade system for covering at least a portion of a car window of a car is provided. The car window is mounted within a window frame with the window frame having a top edge, a bottom edge, and a pair of side edges. The window shade system comprises a first shade mounted to the top edge or the side edge of the window frame and a second shade mounted to the bottom edge or the side edge of the window frame. The first shade and the second shade are independently movable to cover at least a portion of the car window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Inventor: Maria H. Kodabakshian
  • Patent number: 8944132
    Abstract: A mounting fixture that can be mounted horizontally, with a retractable privacy screen on a spring mounted roller, wherein the fixture comprises a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface and the second surface are movingly engaged to open and close, wherein the roller is attached to the first surface, wherein the screen has an extended upward position and a retracted downward position wherein an extension member is attached to the shade and the first surface so that when the member is extended the screen is moved vertically to the extended upward position, and when the member is retracted, the screen is moved to the retracted downward position. The spring loaded roller keeps tension on the screen which prevents the extended screen from being unstable or floppy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Inventor: Kevin Floyd
  • Publication number: 20150027647
    Abstract: The invention proposes a shading arrangement having a first look-through region and a second look-through region, having a first shading unit for the first look-through region and a second shading unit for the second look-through region, wherein the two shading units include one shading element, respectively, on which a drive means either directly or indirectly acts on both sides, respectively at a lateral guide rail in relation to a vertical longitudinal center plane of the roof. On both sides, in relation to the vertical longitudinal center plane of the roof, one coupling tube is arranged, respectively, said coupling tube connecting the guide rails of the two shading units to one another, which are respectively arranged on one side of the vertical longitudinal center plane, and guiding the drive means of the second shading unit, which is driven by the drive means of the first shading unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Rudolf Dietl, Stefan Groitl, Peter Reihl
  • Publication number: 20150027646
    Abstract: A sunshade assembly for installation on a window frame includes a curtain, a bar connected to the curtain, a pivot connection member disposed inside the bar, an abutment member disposed inside the pivot connection member, a transmission rod extending into the pivot connection member to engage the abutment member, and a drive unit driving the transmission rod to move. When the drive unit drives the transmission rod to move upward, the transmission rod pushes upward the abutment member to move upward the bar and to thereby stretch the curtain. When the bar abuts against the window frame, the transmission rod is not deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Paul LIN, Chi-Tsai FANG
  • Patent number: 8939189
    Abstract: A window shade device for vehicles covers a first window and a second window provided adjacent to each other to be shielded and opened. The window shade device for vehicles includes: a guide and support mechanism including a guide rail disposed along a drawing/housing direction of the second window shade and a movable member movable along the guide rail; a rack member connected with the movable member and configured to move along the guide rail; and an intermediate transmission mechanism including a first bevel gear and a second bevel gear and transmitting the rotation of a windup shaft member of the first windup device as a force for moving the rack member along the guide rail, the first bevel gear being connected to the windup shaft member so as to rotate in association therewith, the second bevel gear being disposed to mesh with the first bevel gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Ojima
  • Patent number: 8910698
    Abstract: A sunshade assembly includes a mounting seat, a reeling shaft rotatably mounted to the mounting seat, a foldable shade member connected to the reeling shaft and having an expandable end section that has two side portions and a center portion interconnecting the side portions, a sidebar formed with a first receiving groove that is engaged with the center portion of the expandable end section, and two end components connected respectively to opposite ends of the sidebar. Each of the end components is formed with a second receiving groove in spatial communication with the first receiving groove and engaged with a respective one of the side portions of the expandable end section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Macauto Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Paul Lin
  • Patent number: 8905468
    Abstract: A sunshade apparatus includes: a light blocking sheet to block light at an opening of a vehicle and open the opening; a winding member to which a first edge of the sheet is fixed and which is capable of winding and unwinding the sheet; turning members disposed on both sides of the opening in the width direction; a single rope member adjustably engaged with a second edge of the sheet in the operating direction, extending from both end portions of the second edge respectively toward the light-blocking side in the operating direction, and turning at both of the turning members respectively toward the opening side in the operating direction, and whose both side terminals are respectively fixed to both end portions of the winding member to be capable of being wound and unwound by the winding member; and an urging member to urge the winding member to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Kitani, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Jun Matsushita
  • Patent number: 8905116
    Abstract: A roller blind system for a vehicle for shading a rear window, having a fabric sheet movable between stowed and functioning conditions, with a pull-out profile provided at a distal end thereof and two guide rails located on sides of the sheet, whereby the pull-out profile incorporates two sliding pieces at its opposite ends each engaged with one guide rail. The pull-out profile covers an outlet slot for the sheet. The pull-out profile has a variable length and includes a main segment bonded to the sheet and two movable end segments movable relative to the main segment by a guide. The covering face includes a main section on the main segment and side sections on the end segments. The side sections enter into a receiving pocket enclosed by the main segment when the length of the pull-out profile is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Harry Weinbrenner
  • Patent number: 8881790
    Abstract: A shading system for a glass-covered vehicle opening includes a pull rod guided between a pair of guide rails. A shading element is attached to the pull rod and is movable between a retracted position and an extended position. Teeth are formed in the guide rails. Gear wheels at opposite ends of the pull rod mesh with the teeth in the guide rails. The pull rod has a gear drive which rotatably couples the gear wheels together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignees: Deere & Company, AKO Kunststoffe Alfred Kolb GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Boch, Harald Mueller, Alexander Wagner
  • Patent number: 8881789
    Abstract: A roller assembly for a motor vehicle having a winding shaft, a flexible fabric sheet which when in a stowed condition is wound onto the winding shaft and which can be unwound from the winding shaft in a longitudinal direction in order to reach a functioning position and which has sliding elements on its side edges, two guide rails extending in the longitudinal direction to guide the sliding elements, and a frame, whereby the guide rails are fastened on the frame so that they can be permanently fixed with a desired spacing. A rigid guide tube for a drive chain guided within the guide tube runs from the frame to the guide rail or to a feed-in piece mounted thereon, and a first fixing device is provided to fix the guide tube in a fixed location with respect to the frame in variable positions in the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gwenole Zeo, Guenther Renz
  • Patent number: 8875775
    Abstract: A window shade of the present invention can include a retractable window shade housed in a door of a vehicle, the window shade operable to extend over a window of the vehicle to be secured with a plurality of hooks located above the window. These hooks are specially designed to allow an improperly attached retractable window shade to detach and retract upon the application of a longitudinal force applied to the improperly attached retractable window shade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Devon Marie Ross, Michael Anthony Zielinski
  • Patent number: 8869870
    Abstract: A motor spring assembly for use in a sun shade assembly in a vehicle comprises a motor spring housing and a bracket integral with and extending from the housing. The assembly also comprises a cover arranged over one side of the housing and a motor spring arranged within the housing. The assembly further comprises a shaft in contact with the motor spring wherein the shaft rotates with respect to the housing. The assembly also includes a connector arranged over an end of the shaft. The motor spring assembly generally will be arranged and secured within a guide rail of a sun shade assembly thus allowing for a more robust and durable sun shade assembly within an automotive vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Irvin Automotive Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph P. Wieczorek, David L. Huff
  • Patent number: 8845013
    Abstract: Provided is a roll blind apparatus using a roller bar, in which only one roll blind is applied to a rear seat so that in roll blind opening, a roll blind for a front seat can be opened, but the roll blind for the rear seat can maintain a closed state, and thus light introduced to the rear seat can be blocked, and by applying a roller function to an existing bar, the roll blind can be wound around the roller bar (mobile roller assembly), thereby solving the headroom shortage problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Ho Ryul Lee
  • Patent number: 8833428
    Abstract: A winding shaft for a roller blind system with a main body for holding a rolled up planar structure that can be unwound from the winding shaft, wherein the main body takes the form of a partial cone around a winding shaft axis. The main body is formed as a hollow metal tube shaped as a partial cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Hintennach, Reiner Hillemacher
  • Patent number: 8833843
    Abstract: A sunroof unit for a motor vehicle having a vehicle window arranged in the vehicle roof area and having at least one roller blind system below the vehicle window for partially covering the vehicle window, wherein the roller blind system has two guide rails aligned in the vehicle longitudinal direction and a flexible planar structure guided in lateral areas by the guide rails. The guide rails are fixed with regard to their distance from one another in a front end area and/or in a rear end area only indirectly by the vehicle window. The guide rails are each fastened using a fixing device to the vehicle window, and at least one fixing device is designed as a variable fixing device to permit a positive fixing of the respective guide rail relative to the vehicle window in one of several discrete relative positions with respect to a vehicle transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Stark, Guenther Renz, Gwenole Zeo, Sascha Kircher
  • Patent number: 8833429
    Abstract: Included are a windup device, a screen mounted to the windup device so as to be drawn therefrom and housed therein, a stay mounted to a drawing-side edge of the screen, and a pair of arms each including a distal end portion connected to the stay so as to rotate relative thereto and a proximal end portion supported by the windup device so as to rotate relative thereto about a rotation axis, the pair of arms being configured to change a position between a folded position and an extended position through a rotary movement about the rotation axis. The pair of arms are configured such that in the extended position, one-end-side portion of a pivot base extends toward a vertical frame of a window from the rotation axis and the other-end-side portion of the pivot base and an arm part extend along the vertical frame in a manner of being bent from the distal end portion of the one-end-side portion of the pivot base, and that the arm part and the pivot base are connected so as to rotate relative thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naochika Katada
  • Patent number: 8827347
    Abstract: A window assembly for a vehicle includes outer and inner window panels and a spacer element disposed therebetween to establish an interpane cavity between the inner and outer window panels. At least one of (a) the outer window panel has a larger cross dimension relative to the inner window panel to provide overhang regions, and (b) the inner window panel has a different contour or curvature than that of the outer window panel so that the interpane cavity varies in gap distance across the window assembly. A roller shade is disposed in the cavity and is electrically deployable to coil and uncoil between a coiled light transmitting condition, where the roller shade functions to substantially allow light transmission through the window assembly, and an at least partially uncoiled light attenuating condition, where the roller shade functions to at least partially attenuate light transmission through the window assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Darin J. Snider
  • Patent number: 8800635
    Abstract: A lateral guide for a shading roller blind incorporating at least one guide rail with a first plug-in element and a connection piece with a second plug-in element which is complementary to the first plug-in element and is couplable thereto. The intercoupled plug-in elements are displaceable relative to each other to compensate for tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Harry Weinbrenner
  • Patent number: 8777302
    Abstract: There is provided a sunshade apparatus comprising a pair of guide rails, a screen to move along each guide rail, and a roll-up device to send off or roll up the screen. The roll-up device comprises a roll-up shaft having bending flexibility, a pair of end members disposed at both ends of the roll-up shaft, a pair of support members to support each end member, and an abutment member including a push-up portion to bend the roll-up shaft so as to protrude upward and a positioning portion to be disposed on the side of the opening relatively to the roll-up shaft to position the roll-up shaft. Each end member is formed so as to be movable relatively to each support member in an open-close direction when the opening is opened or closed by use of the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kanai, Tatsuaki Uehara
  • Patent number: 8770258
    Abstract: A sunshade apparatus for a vehicle includes a shading sheet, which opens and closes a light transmitting portion of a vehicle roof, a pair of holding members, which retain the shading sheet, a winding member, which winds the shading sheet and the holding members. The shading sheet is retained at edge portions of the shading sheet, which extend in the shading sheet opening-closing directions by the holding members. The holding members are retained to the winding member in a manner so that winding in at one end in turn winds off the other end and movement direction thereof is reversed at a direction change member positioned at a distance from the winding member in the shading sheet opening-closing directions and the winding member includes a biasing member, which balances tensional force acting in the shading sheet opening-closing directions at one end and the other end of each holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Kitani, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 8757241
    Abstract: A protective screen for a vehicle, in particular a sun screen for a vehicle roof is configured as a flexible planar structure for fastening in the region of the vehicle roof or of a trunk compartment. The flexible planar structure has a first layer, which, at least in some sections, is of elastically stretchable configuration, and an overlying second layer, which is configured as a UV protective layer. Alternatively, the flexible planar structure has a main region having lower elasticity and/or air permeability, and secondary regions of a first type, having higher elasticity and/or air permeability than the main region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Stark
  • Patent number: 8757697
    Abstract: Mechanically or powered activated, retractable, partition-able enclosure-panels with or without custom brackets for any style open-air-vehicle having roof structures, including cars and boats, is taught. The partition-able enclosure panels for a driver's side, passenger's side, or rear opening of an open-air car, each include two or more partition-sections, and a rotatable spindle, where each of the partition-sections is designed to be attached to and detached from an adjacent partition-section, and each of the partition-sections is fixedly or non-fixedly attachable to the rotating spindle, so that when the partitions are attached to each other and the spindle is rotated all partitions are controlled by said rotating spindle and when the partitions are detached from each other, only the fixedly attached partition is controlled by the rotating spindle providing for deployment or un-deployment of either a panel or a partition-section. A roof or roof-support with built-in panel supporting devices is also taught.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Inventor: Michael P Held
  • Patent number: 8708028
    Abstract: There is a need for a window blind assembly for a vehicle, in which vibration and noise are reduced when a shade curtain moves and which is convenient to be transported. The window blind assembly for a vehicle includes: a main frame; a pair of connection units arranged in the main frame; a rotary shaft rotationally arranged in the connection units; a pair of guide rails rotationally arranged in the connection units and formed with guide grooves; a shade curtain supporter movably coupled to the guide grooves of the pair of guide rails; a shade curtain including one side end portion connected to the rotary shaft and rolled into the rotary shaft, and the other side end portion connected to the shade curtain supporter and unrolled as the shade curtain supporter becomes apart from the rotary shaft; and a driving unit providing driving force to move the shade curtain supporter along the guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Fuel-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Won Suk Oh, Ki Kyung Bae, Ki Hong Kim, Jeong Soon Park, Bong Jung Kim, Kyoo Kang Shim
  • Patent number: 8695682
    Abstract: A pull bar device includes a pull bar unit that is adapted to be connected to a shade member, and that has a hole-defining surface portion defining an engagement hole that is adapted to be engaged removably with a hook member, and a cushion unit that is connected to the pull bar unit, that is exposed from the engagement hole, and that is adapted for biasing resiliently the hook member to abut against the hole-defining surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Macauto Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Paul Lin