Having Headliner Or Liner Support Patents (Class 296/214)
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Patent number: 10173237Abstract: An apparatus capable of building products including an adhesive application member, which is capable of applying an adhesive to a first base member along a first predetermined pattern and to a second base member along a second predetermined pattern, and a tooling block, which is capable of receiving a first set of one or more attaching members and applying the first set of one or more attaching members to the first base member and is capable of receiving a second set of one or more attaching members and applying the second set of one or more attaching members to the second base member. The apparatus is capable of building products of differing design aspects without significant changes to the apparatus's components. The apparatus may also associate with a universal product mover capable of transporting products of varying designs.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Android Industries LLCInventors: John Edward Donnay, Robert Michael Lease, Christopher Dean Kirkum, Stephen Ju
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Patent number: 10155488Abstract: A headliner and pillar trim assembly of a vehicle comprises a headliner portion including the headliner cover layer and a headliner backing layer; and a plurality of pillar portions each including a pillar trim and a pillar cover layers. The headliner cover layer and a plurality of the pillar cover layers are formed as a one-piece cover layer, and the headliner backing layer and a plurality of the pillar trims are attached to the headliner cover layer and the plurality of pillar cover layers, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Salman Nazir Shami
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Patent number: 10131206Abstract: A vehicle includes a body mounted with a chassis, the body having a passenger compartment, a seat in the passenger compartment for supporting an occupant in a sitting position, and a roll over protection structure for the passenger compartment. The roll over protection structure includes an inlet coupled in gaseous communication to an air source, an outlet coupled in gaseous communication to a vehicle occupant wearable, and an airflow pathway through the roll over protection structure coupling the inlet to the outlet in gaseous communication.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Inventor: Michael W. Kirkpatrick
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Patent number: 10106117Abstract: A roof headliner for a vehicle includes a substrate defining a surface. The substrate is configured for attachment to an interior surface of a roof of a passenger compartment of the vehicle. The roof headliner includes an energy absorption panel that is attached to the surface of the substrate. The energy absorption panel includes a silicone based material. The energy absorption panel extends an entire length along an edge of an upper roof zone of the vehicle, and is positioned to extend both inboard and outboard of the edge of the upper roof zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Laura Nathaly Zaldivar Ortiz, Adriana Morales Estevez, Francisco Plata, Fernando Zamora Romero
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Patent number: 10007084Abstract: A visualization system for vehicles includes a mirror glass, three housing elements and a securing element. The first element includes an engagement aperture. The second element includes a first shaft extending in an outward direction. The first shaft has a first undercut opposite a rear side. The third element includes a second shaft that extends in an inward direction towards the housing. The second shaft has a second undercut opposite a rear side. The securing element extends in the inward direction into the engagement aperture and presses against both rear sides of the shafts causing both the first and second undercuts to press against the edge of the engagement aperture from opposite sides and thereby preventing the first and second shafts from moving either inward or outward with respect to the first element. The mirror glass is disposed on the opposite side of the third element from the first element.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Mekra Lang GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Werner Lang, Georg Hecht, Albrecht Popp
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Patent number: 10005343Abstract: Methods and systems are providhed for controlling a sunshade associated with a sunroof system of a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: determining, by a processor, a mode of the sunshade to be at least one of a linked mode and an unlinked mode; and selectively controlling, by a processor, a position of the sunshade based on one of a requested position of the sunshade and a requested position of a sunroof window, wherein the selectively is based on the mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Alex J. Smith
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Patent number: 9987950Abstract: A vehicle seat bracket assembly is provided that includes a bracket connected to a vehicle seat structure and including one or more retention features. The vehicle seat bracket assembly also includes an electrical connector module receivably connected to the bracket via the one or more retention features. The vehicle seat bracket assembly further includes one or more electrical control modules connected to the electrical connector module.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Shailendra Yadav
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Patent number: 9931916Abstract: A moving device includes: a moving body; guide rails extending in a moving direction of the moving body on both sides in one direction orthogonal to the moving direction and each of which has first and second guides mutually symmetrical in the one direction, and a third guide interposed between the first and second guides; connecting portions provided at both-side end portions of the moving body in the one direction and mutually symmetrical in the one direction; first and second shoes respectively mounted on the connecting portions, sliding the first and third guides and the second and third guides, and having the same shape; first and second drive belts respectively connected to the first and second shoes in the first and second guides to be integrally moved and moving and driving the first and second shoes.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshitaka Ide, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 9931915Abstract: A sliding member includes a casing and a plate spring. The plate spring is placed in a middle accommodating portion of the casing between front and rear portions of a middle lower wall portion and a protruding portion of a middle upper wall portion constructed by a mountain-shaped wall portion and the protruding portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: HOWA TEXTILE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Sawai, Hiroki Koyama
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Patent number: 9856670Abstract: An apparatus and associated method for a sliding entry door assembly. The sliding door assembly has a frame, and a fixed lid attached to the frame. A rail is attached to the frame. A lid is selectively slidable upon the rail relative to the fixed lid to an opened position. A cam is selectively operable to raise the slidable lid to be flush with the fixed lid in a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Bunker Safety Structures, LLCInventor: Joe Kraft
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Patent number: 9854363Abstract: A loudspeaker system for a vehicle includes a loudspeaker array including a plurality of electroacoustic sound transducers that can be controlled individually, such that a user-specific audio signal can be reproduced for different users at different listening positions in a vehicle interior of the vehicle via the plurality of electroacoustic sound transducers. Here, the loudspeaker array or a sound outlet of the loudspeaker array is arranged in particular between at least two of the listening positions in the vehicle interior, i.e. for example between the driver and the passenger seat.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Christoph Sladeczek, Daniel Beer, Andreas Franck
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Patent number: 9776489Abstract: A deflector apparatus for a vehicle includes a deflector, a support member and a torsion spring. The deflector includes arm portions provided as a pair, and each of the arm portions includes a shaft portion and a cam protruding portion. The support member includes a support recessed portion in which the shaft portion is inserted, a cam recessed portion in which the cam protruding portion is inserted and a support protruding portion. The torsion spring includes a turning portion attached to the support protruding portion, and a first leg portion and a second leg portion each extended in the vehicle front and rear direction from the turning portion. The first leg portion includes a distal end portion which can be in slide contact with the arm portion and the second leg portion includes a distal end portion which can be in slide contact with the support member.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsumi Konishi, Kazuki Sawada
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Patent number: 9764626Abstract: A one-motor electric sunshade and sunroof structure may include glass sleds configured to open and close a sunroof glass by sliding in a front and rear direction along mechanism rails disposed at both sides of a roof panel for a vehicle, each having both ends to which a front sled and a rear sled are rotatably coupled, respectively, main cable devices which are connected with a drive motor by a cable, and movable along the mechanism rails, each having a cable protrusion that protrudes to be slidably accommodated in glass grooves formed in side surfaces of the front sled, the rear sled, and the glass sled, and sunshade sleds selectively coupled to the main cable devices and configured to open and close the sunshade by sliding, each having a first side at which a sunshade lever, which is selectively restricted with a corresponding mechanism rail, is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Webasto Donghee Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeong-Hoon Park, Seong-Min Kwak
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Patent number: 9752365Abstract: A dual-opening panoramic sunroof may include front glass which slides forward and rearward by being connected with a front sled that is slidable forward and rearward along a mechanism rail, a rear glass which slides forward and rearward by being connected with a rear sled, a front timing plate which has a rear end rotatably coupled to the rear sled, and a front end formed with a front groove to accommodate a portion of the front sled, and selectively connects the front sled and the rear sled, a rear tilt lever which is disposed rearward of the mechanism rail, and a rear timing plate which has a rear end rotatably coupled to the rear tilt sled, and a front end formed with a rear groove formed to selectively accommodate a portion of the rear sled, and connects the rear sled and the rear tilt sled.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Webasto Donghee Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Han Park, Jin-Ho Kim, Su-Yun Choi, Ji-hoon Ha
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Patent number: 9744833Abstract: A sunroof apparatus includes: a movable panel adapted to open and close an opening formed in a roof of a vehicle; a guide rail provided in each edge portion of the opening in a width direction of the vehicle such that the guide rail is positioned below the movable panel in a height direction of the vehicle; an attachment member fixed to the movable panel, including a flange extending toward an interior side in the width direction in each edge portion in the width direction, in which an attachment recessed portion is formed in the flange; and a shielding body including interposing pieces which are provided to extend in a forward and rearward direction of the vehicle, slidably engaged with the guide rail, and extending in the width direction of the vehicle while being spaced away from each other in the height direction of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kinju Uchida, Katsutoshi Kato, Yoshitaka Nakamura
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Patent number: 9725047Abstract: Embodiments include a loudspeaker arrangement in a vehicle comprising a plurality of loudspeakers positioned in a pillar of the vehicle. The pillar is coupled to at least one vehicle door frame and extends from a vehicle roof to a vehicle floor, and at least one of the plurality of loudspeakers is a low-frequency loudspeaker. In some embodiments, the pillar is a B-pillar of the vehicle, and/or the low-frequency loudspeaker is a sub-woofer. Other embodiments include a vehicle comprising at least one door frame, a pillar coupled to the at least one door frame and extending from a vehicle roof to a vehicle floor, and a low-frequency loudspeaker mounted in the pillar. In some embodiments, the vehicle further includes at least one boxless loudspeaker mounted in the pillar, and each of the at least one boxless loudspeaker is an electrostatic loudspeaker.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Fernando Mar Orellana, Alvaro Sanchez Canudas
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Patent number: 9725947Abstract: A lighted roll up door assembly may include a roll up door including interconnected slats movable along tracks, and a lighting element configured to be attached to an exterior side of the roll up door. The lighting element can be mounted so as to direct a substantial portion of the light output toward the roll up door and below a horizontal direction so as to light a portion of the door and an adjacent area below the door at least partially by reflection when the door is in a closed position and so as to light an area on an interior side of the roll up door when the door is in a opened position. The lighting element may be mounted to a fixed or movable member attached to a slat of the roll up door.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Hansen International, Inc.Inventor: John J. Seehof
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Patent number: 9662962Abstract: According to some embodiments, a zonal conditioning system for a vehicle comprises a headliner assembly configured to be secured to the top surface of a vehicle interior, wherein the headliner assembly comprises a first side positioned away from the vehicle interior and hidden from the vehicle interior, and a second side positioned toward the vehicle interior, the headliner assembly comprising at least two vents through which air selectively passes. The zonal conditioning system further includes at least two fluid modules positioned along the first side of the headliner assembly, wherein each of the fluid modules comprises a fluid transfer device and an outlet. In some embodiments, at least one property of the air discharged through the first and second vents can be selectively regulated to create separate conditioning zones within the interior of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Gentherm IncorporatedInventors: Adam Joseph Steinman, Kenneth James Bunyak, Bruno Antonio Orlando
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Patent number: 9550409Abstract: An open roof construction for a vehicle comprises an opening in a stationary roof part and a rollo assembly positioned below said roof opening intended for covering the roof opening. The rollo assembly comprises a rollo screen and a winding shaft for the rollo screen which is rotatable around a stationary axis of rotation, and the rollo screen, starting from the winding shaft, firstly extends in a first direction, next around a reversal member and finally back in an opposite second direction and ends at a rollo screen edge. The reversal member is movable in parallel to said first and second directions in correspondence with the amount of rollo screen being wound on or off said winding shaft. The rollo screen is provided with light emitting members which are activated through connections provided at the interface between said rollo screen edge and a stationary part of the open roof construction.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: INALFA ROOF SYSTEMS GROUP B.V.Inventor: Suyanto Teri Wahiyu Ten-Jet-Foei
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Patent number: 9387750Abstract: An open roof construction for a vehicle comprises a roof panel that is tiltable and can be moved in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. Two movable cover assemblies cover a free space which in a tilted position of the roof panel is formed between corresponding ones of panel side edges and opening side edges. Each cover assembly comprises three rods, a first rod in a stationary position in the vicinity of a corresponding opening side edge, a second rod having a forward end pivotally connected to the stationary roof close to the corresponding opening side edge and a rearward end slidably connected to the corresponding panel side edge and a third rod positioned inward from the second rod and is biased for an inward movement. A flexible cover member extends at least from the first rod to the second rod and from the second rod to the third rod.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Inalfa Roof Systems Group B.V.Inventor: Gerardus Franciscus Jacobus Haumann
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Patent number: 9376080Abstract: A vehicle interior trim panel includes an external layer and a base layer. The external layer defines an aperture, and is configured to overlie a vehicle interior structure and has a portion configured to be disposed in an aperture between the vehicle interior structure and a handle attached to the vehicle interior structure. The base layer is configured to be disposed between the external layer and the vehicle interior structure, without being disposed between the external layer and the vehicle interior structure at the portion of the external layer disposed between the vehicle interior structure and the handle. The base layer includes a peripheral edge spaced from the aperture.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Jorge Guadarrama Martinez, Masahisa Inoue, Yousuke Murata
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Patent number: 9272673Abstract: The present invention relates to a system consisting of a roof liner and a cassette, a method for producing the roof liner, and a method for securing a roof liner to a cassette, in particular a sliding-roof cassette.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Johnson Controls Interiors GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Ralf Mailaender
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Patent number: 9227487Abstract: A sliding headliner for a motor vehicle that is movably guided on guides on both sides and that comprises a flexible shading element, whereby the invention provides that the shading element is tightened by two side profile strips of the sliding headliner, which strips are movably guided on the two guides, that each guide has a front guide section and a rear guide section, that the two side profile strips are held at a distance from one another by the rear guide sections under tightening of the shading element in the transverse direction and are guided in a non-tightened manner in the transverse direction by the front guide sections, and that the side profile strips are held at a distance from one another in the transverse direction on the front guide sections by their own bending stiffness and/or by a cross bow.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventor: Dominik Hölzel
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Patent number: 9187048Abstract: A method of mounting a cable on a headliner and a headliner used therefor, that are capable of simplifying an attachment process by attaching the cable to the headliner using an attaching cloth, and preventing the attached cable from being easily separated from the headliner and securely fixing the cable to reduce generation of noises. The method is capable of easily recognizing a cable mounting position and arbitrarily adjusting the cable mounting position to a width of an attaching cloth. A worker may easily perform an assembly process by attaching the cable using the attaching cloth, separating an incorrectly attached cable and then attaching the cable thereto again. The attaching cloth may be at a mounting position of a headliner opposite to a roof panel and at which a cable is mounted, and at an outer circumferential surface of the cable, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: DAEHAN SOLUTION CO., LTD.Inventor: Choong Ho Kwon
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Patent number: 9156500Abstract: A roof bow for a vehicle is provided that has a “bow-tie” shape including a central portion flanked by two triangular portions. The triangular portions are joined to right and left roof brackets that are, in turn, joined to right and left roof rails. The bow-tie roof bow may be assembled from extruded tubular parts. The bow-tie roof bow may be assembled in a clamshell structure including an upper shell and a lower shell that are joined together by welding. The roof bow may be formed in one piece as a sheet metal stamping having side portions that are wider than the central portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mohammed Omar Faruque, Fubang Wu, Michael M. Azzouz, Yijung Chen, David Anthony Wagner, James Chih Cheng
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Patent number: 9120436Abstract: A roof shell structure for a motor vehicle has a roof shell with an outer shell and an inner roof lining. A sound absorption element is integrated into the roof shell or into the roof shell structure. The sound absorption element is arranged between the outer shell and the inner roof lining in an opening in an inner shell.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Kai Geissenhoener, Lars Schulz
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Patent number: 9073415Abstract: A sunshade device disposed in an opening of a vehicle includes a pair of winding devices, a sheet-like shade member wound in each of the winding devices and drawable therefrom; a frame member disposed at a draw-out end of each shade member so as to extend along an end edge thereof; and a sealing member that closes a portion between the draw-out ends of the side shade members in a closed-shade state where the draw-out ends of both shade members are abutted with each other in a substantial center of the opening of the vehicle. The frame of the other side shade member includes a hollow cross-sectional portion extending along the end edge of the draw-out end of the other side shade member, and the sealing member is brought into contact with the hollow cross-sectional portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeo Hara, Shoichi Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20150137562Abstract: Slider unit for mounting a movable roof member to a vehicle roof. A sliding block has at least two sliding faces and a carrier member, which is designed for coupling to the movable roof member and for mechanical coupling to the sliding block. The carrier member has a first tab and a second tab which are arranged substantially centrally in the carrier member relative to a displacement direction (V) of the slider unit. The first tab is in engagement with a recess in the sliding block to fix its position in relation to the fixed part of the vehicle roof. The second tab engages with the recess of the sliding block and is designed in such a manner that the sliding block is pretensioned in relation to the vehicle-fixed part in the mounted state of the slider unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2012Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventor: Mattias Hirvonen
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Patent number: 9022461Abstract: A high stiffness waterproof roof panel pad for a vehicle, which is configured by stacking and laminating a waterproof reinforcing layer coated with PE layers on both surfaces of a urethane foam pad, thereby reinforcing the stiffness of a vehicle body panel, preventing the pad from becoming wet due to dew condensation and thus increasing noise and vibration reduction effects and having a waterproof function. Additionally, a method of manufacturing the waterproof roof panel pad includes preparing a hard urethane foam pad, preparing a waterproof reinforcing layer of which both surfaces are coated with PE layers, stacking the waterproof reinforcing layer on both surfaces of the urethane foam pad, laminating the PE layer in contact with the urethane foam pad and integrally forming the urethane foam pad and the waterproof reinforcing layer, and performing a cutting operation according to a shape and a size of a roof panel.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Daehan Solutions Co., Ltd.Inventor: Choong Ho Kwon
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Patent number: 9017798Abstract: A press-formed product includes a top panel portion and a side panel portion connected to the top panel portion through a bent portion that is curved so as to have an arc shape. The top panel portion includes a recessed portion that is curved so as to have an arc shape in a direction opposite to a direction in which the bent portion is curved.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Topre CorporationInventors: Yasuharu Hashimoto, Yusuke Tezuka
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Publication number: 20150108794Abstract: A sliding headliner for a motor vehicle that is movably guided on guides on both sides and that comprises a flexible shading element, whereby the invention provides that the shading element is tightened by two side profile strips of the sliding headliner, which strips are movably guided on the two guides, that each guide has a front guide section and a rear guide section, that the two side profile strips are held at a distance from one another by the rear guide sections under tightening of the shading element in the transverse direction and are guided in a non-tightened manner in the transverse direction by the front guide sections, and that the side profile strips are held at a distance from one another in the transverse direction on the front guide sections by their own bending stiffness and/or by a cross bow.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventor: Dominik Hölzel
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Patent number: 9004146Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Gwenole Zeo, Wolfgang Stark, Guenter Renz, Sascha Kircher
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Patent number: 8998298Abstract: An energy absorber includes a base sheet and a plurality of recovering crush lobes extending from the base sheet. The crush lobes protect an adjacent object by cushioning the blow following repeated impacts in both vehicular and non-vehicular (e.g. helmets) environments. Each crush lobe includes a side wall that is oriented to buckle or bend and then spring back after absorbing energy when impacted. At least one of the base sheet and an end wall of at least one crush lobe optionally includes a number (X) of integrally-formed protruding countermeasures where 0<=X<1000 of lower standing strength than the crush lobes. Methods related to the above are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Oakwood Energy Management, Inc.Inventors: Matthew M. Gerwolls, Michael A. Rossi, Dane Winbigler, Donald S Smith, Joel M. Cormier, Richard F. Audi
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Patent number: 8967706Abstract: A roof apparatus for a vehicle includes a movable panel configured to open and close an opening portion, a sunshade configured to be opened in association with an opening operation of the movable panel, a guide rail, a sliding member causing the movable panel in a fully-closed state to move to a tilt state and to perform the opening operation, an engaging member mounted on a front portion of the movable panel and including an engaging portion and a mounting portion at which the engaging member is mounted on the movable panel, the engaging portion is arranged at a vehicle front side relative to the mounting portion, and an engaged member provided at the sunshade, the engaged member is pressed by the engaging portion when the movable panel performs the opening operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshitaka Ide, Tatsuya Matsui, Ryuta Fukada, Makoto Muranaka
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Patent number: 8955903Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2011Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Webasto Donghee Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Je-Hyeon Park, Seung-Min Yun, Eun-Bum Kim, Myung-Kwon Jang
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Patent number: 8939499Abstract: A drive unit for a motor vehicle having a guide element, a function unit guided by the guide element and which is movable via a motor, and a carrier guided by the guide element and coupled to the function unit. The carrier includes a coupling element movable relative to a main body of the carrier, so that to bring about an engaged state the coupling element is arranged in a first position inside a receptacle of the guide element to fix the carrier on the guide element, and to bring about a coupled state the carrier is arranged in a second position inside a recess of the function unit so that the carrier is moved together with the function unit. The carrier has a securing element movable relative to the main body and which, in a fixing position, prevents movement of the coupling element out of the first position.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2011Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: BOS GmbH Co. KGInventor: Michael Heidan
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Patent number: 8936304Abstract: A pull bar is adapted for attachment to one end of a screen of a sunshade device beneath a sunroof of a vehicle. The pull bar includes an upper strip body and a lower strip body. The upper strip body is adapted to abut against an upper surface of the screen. The lower strip body is adapted to abut against a lower surface of the screen. The upper and lower strip bodies cooperatively define at least one air flow passage that extends through the upper and lower strip bodies to permit air to flow into or out of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Macauto Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Paul Lin, Huang-Jen Wang
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Patent number: 8905468Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 4, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Kitani, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Jun Matsushita
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Publication number: 20140354016Abstract: The present invention relates to a system consisting of a roof liner and a cassette, a method for producing the roof liner, and a method for securing a roof liner to a cassette, in particular a sliding-roof cassette.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventor: Ralf Mailaender
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Patent number: 8899671Abstract: A vehicle headliner attachment system includes a moonroof assembly having a peripheral structure surrounding at least one glass panel. A headliner has an upper surface surrounding an opening that aligns with at least one glass panel. A select one of a plurality of carriers and a pair of longitudinal rails protrudes down from laterally opposing sides of the peripheral structure. The other of the plurality of carriers and the pair of longitudinal rails coupled with the upper surface of the headliner proximate the opening. The plurality of connectors each have a connector slidably engaged with a select one of the pair of longitudinal rails and a resilient element biasing carrier away from the select one of the pair of longitudinal rails.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: David Huelke
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Publication number: 20140333097Abstract: A vehicle panel with a folded-over or wrapped edge is disclosed. The vehicle panel comprises a main body portion. The main body portion includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is formed of a substantially rigid material and has a first surface, a second surface and an edge. The second layer is coupled to the second surface of the first layer and formed of a substantially flexible material. The vehicle panel also comprises a flap integrally formed with the main body portion at the edge and comprises at least the second layer. The vehicle panel further comprises a hinge separating the flap from the main body portion, the hinge is defined by at least a portion of the first layer having a reduced thickness. The flap is folded back about the hinge towards the first surface of the first layer to substantially conceal the edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANYInventors: CHRISTOPHER SCOTT KRING, TODD D. NELLIS, DENNIS J. VANHOUTEN, BOBBY BAGBY, JULIE M. DEVRIES, BEN EDWARD SAPAK, KEVIN A. TOMASEK, PETER OOSTING, BRENT DONALD ROCKAFELLOW, ALBERT CHARLES HAAK, JASON S. SCHOLTEN, RADE MILANOVIC, WILLIAM J. HOMIK, JACK LAWRENCE JOHNSON
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Patent number: 8881789Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 4, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Gwenole Zeo, Guenther Renz
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Patent number: 8876200Abstract: A vehicle headliner attachment system for mounting a headliner to a non-magnetic roof structure includes a headliner having an interior and an exterior surface, a ferromagnetic plate attached to the exterior surface of the headliner, and a magnetic clip assembly affixed to the non-magnetic roof structure. The ferromagnetic plate and magnetic clip assembly enable magnetic attachment of the headliner to the non-magnetic roof structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: David Huelke, Justin Lee Healy, James Allen Stec, Todd Jared Konet
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Patent number: 8876199Abstract: Provided is a sunshade apparatus disposed under a sunroof panel installed in a fixed roof of a vehicle, comprising a frame having a plurality of frame openings arranged in a width direction of the vehicle, and a plurality of polarizing panel sets each of which is disposed correspondingly to one of the frame openings. The frame is formed to be higher in the middle portion thereof than both end portions thereof in the width direction so as to follow the shape of the fixed roof, and each polarizing panel set inclines to be higher as approaching the middle portion of the vehicle in the width direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akira Murasawa
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Patent number: 8864218Abstract: A vehicular ceiling assembly includes a ceiling board, a functional component, a bracket including a mount and a shock absorber. The bracket is mounted to an upper surface of the ceiling board to fix the functional component to the ceiling board. The bracket is arranged such that the mount is positioned above the functional component in a vehicle height direction and the shock absorber is in contact with a lower surface of a roof of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideaki Hamada, Haruo Horikawa
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Patent number: 8845013Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Ho Ryul Lee
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Publication number: 20140265456Abstract: A vehicle headliner attachment system includes a moonroof assembly having a peripheral structure surrounding at least one glass panel. A headliner has an upper surface surrounding an opening that aligns with at least one glass panel. A select one of a plurality of carriers and a pair of longitudinal rails protrudes down from laterally opposing sides of the peripheral structure. The other of the plurality of carriers and the pair of longitudinal rails coupled with the upper surface of the headliner proximate the opening. The plurality of connectors each have a connector slidably engaged with a select one of the pair of longitudinal rails and a resilient element biasing carrier away from the select one of the pair of longitudinal rails.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: David Huelke
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Patent number: 8833843Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 16, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Wolfgang Stark, Guenther Renz, Gwenole Zeo, Sascha Kircher
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Patent number: 8833830Abstract: A vehicular accessory retention clip is used to attach a vehicular accessory, such as vehicular trim, to a vehicle. The vehicular accessory may have a substrate component that has at least one reinforcement post, and the vehicle may have a vehicular base component that has at least one corresponding opening configured to receive the reinforcement post. The retention clip has at least two walls that extend from an edge of a platform, each wall having an exterior tab and an interior tab configured to engage with the walls of the opening and the reinforcement post, respectively. The retention clip is slid onto the reinforcement post until the interior tabs engage with the reinforcement post, and the combination of the retention clip and reinforcement post is inserted until the exterior tabs engage with the walls of the opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: David T. Renke, Paul W. Renius
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Patent number: 8825288Abstract: A control apparatus includes a first drive device driving a movable panel, a first detection device detecting a state of the movable panel, a second drive device driving a sunshade, a second detection device detecting a state of the sunshade, and a control device controlling one of the first and second drive devices to stop an operation of a succeeding member serving as one of the movable panel and the sunshade configured to be positioned behind a preceding member serving as the other of the movable panel and the sunshade relative to each of the opening position and the closing position, in a case where a distance between the movable panel and the sunshade becomes smaller than a predetermined distance on a basis of a position of the movable panel detected by the first drive device and a position of the sunshade detected by the second drive device.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Nagase, Nobuyasu Bessho