Patents by Inventor Patrick Sauder

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

  • Patent number: 5626381
    Abstract: A sun-visor for motor vehicles is described which has a flat, elongated sun-visor body which can be flipped from a position of non-use above a vehicle windshield into a position of use in front of the vehicle windshield. The sun-visor body carries a plate at one end region of its lengthwise direction. The plate can be swung out around a hinge on the visor body when the sun-visor body is in its position of use in order to impart the sun-visor body the normal size which protects against glare and can be swung inward in order to shorten the length of the sun-visor body before it is swung into the position of non-use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1997
    Assignee: Gebr. Happich GmbH
    Inventors: Pascal Gervasoni, Rene Lecorvaisier, Patrick Sauder, Didier Weiss
  • Patent number: 5401073
    Abstract: A vehicle sun visor having a body comprised of polypropylene particle foam with a recess in its broad side for receiving a mirror supported in a frame. A series of openings arrayed in the visor body around the periphery of the recess. The frame being an integral plastic injection molding with anchoring pins defined on it at locations corresponding to the openings in the visor body, and the pins being installed in the openings for holding the mirror and frame to the recess. Each of the anchoring pins having a ring like elevation around it which engages in the opening in the visor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Gebr. Happich GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Viertel, Rene Lecorvaisier, Patrick Sauder, Christian Buchheit