COMBINED INFANT CAR SEAT COVER AND WINDOW SHADE

Abstract

A screen adapted for an engagement upon a handled car seat for an infant or child which is also engageable to a window of a vehicle to shade occupants from light transmitted through the window. The screen is formed of a planar sheet of shading material and is configured to engage with and provide a gripable access to a portion of the seat handle. The screen is engageable with a window of the vehicle using opposing hooks thereon which are positioned to impart a fold across the middle of the sheet of material.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to seating in vehicles. More particularly the disclosed device relates to an infant car seat having a cover which includes a window shading screen.

2. Prior Art

Automotive accidents are very common not only on highways but while traveling close to home in local neighborhoods as well. A substantial risk of harm exists for adults in such accidents and because of their size and development, infants and toddlers are at an enhanced risk of injury in such accidents. As a consequence, automotive safety experts recommend the use of specially designed infant car seats adapted to ergonomically support and to protect infants and toddlers from injury when traveling in vehicles. In many states such infant seats are mandatory for children under a threshold age or weight. Such seats are intended by design to provide occupants maximum protection and thereby reduce injuries to infants and toddlers and young children during the quick and jarring motions of a crash.

Conventionally, infant car seats include a generally oblong basket portion with a rigid, often plastic, outer shell, and cushioned interior in which the child occupant is placed. The seat is typically secured to a vehicle using the conventional vehicle-equipped seatbelts while the infant is restrained within the seat through the employment of a three or four point harness for comfortably securing the infant therein. Although slight design choices may vary by manufacturer, overall function is maintained substantially similar within the art.

It is conventionally known that infant car seats are provided with a handle portion to necessitate the placement and removal of the infant car seat into and out of a vehicle, as well as provide improved overall handling of the car seat as a mobile carrier. The typically inverted U-shaped handle is rotatably engaged to the sides of the rigid shell of the seat and positioned at the center of gravity of the seat. The rotatable engagement allows a user to either store the handle by rotating it downward or position the handle upright for carrying.

Such seats are of great advantage to a user in that it not only provides safety for infants within vehicles but also doubles as a convenient carrier outside the vehicle and are thus desirable to parents. However, no conventionally available or disclosed infant seats offer user-employable protection against the sun or other environmental factors. It is commonly known that increased sun exposure to infants, especially those under the age of two, has been shown to possibly lead to increases of skin related medical issues later in life. Further, bright sunlight and/or encountered road lights are a cause for concern when they project into an infant or child's eyes who is secured in a car seat, since they are essentially captive to their location within the seat. Such bright lights can be from adjacent or oncoming cars, street lights, billboards, or interior lighting and other sources. Street and vehicle originating light, as well as sunlight and interior lights, can cause both injury and problems when projected into the eyes of an infant seat occupant. Further, sunlight and artificial lighting can reach the infant or child's eyes from any direction from the exterior of the vehicle or the interior of the vehicle. Communicated natural and artificial lighting into the infants eyes can cause temporary blindness, pain if the child has a medical condition, and at best will frequently wake a peacefully sleeping child, much to the constrination of the parents who were enjoying a quite drive.

As a conventional solution parents often employ vehicle window engaged shade screens which removably engage onto the windows and doors of their vehicles to provide some shade and some projected light protection to the infant seat passengers. However, such shade screen devices being window-mounted are configured to solely provide shading within a vehicle from one direction, and generally do not surround the entire window and leave gaps for light transmission. Further, such window engaged shades cannot be employed directly on the infant car seat.

As such, there is an ongoing need to provide shade and light transmission protection to the body and eyes of children and infants fixed within a infant car seat. Many attempts in prior art have been shown to provide accessories to infant car seats to provide a solution to this problem.

U.S. Pat. No. 6,056,355 to Klassen teaches an infant car seat cover employing an elastic hem for secured engagement about an infant car seat. Klassen further employs a removable flap for selective opening and closing of a portion of the cover at or near the infants head. However, the elastic hem of Klassen limits the size of car seats in which it may be engaged. Further, it is undesirable in that the cover of Klassen lies directly on and in contact with the seated infant which can become nuisance and uncomfortable to the infant after extended use. Similar drawbacks are also seen in US. Pat. App. Pub. 2004/0026965A1 to Haney.

U.S. Pat. No. 5,781,946 to McEntire et al. teaches an infant car seat cover employing extended portions for wrapping and covering an infant providing warmth and security. However, such a device as McEntire does not provide for the necessity of the easy and quick removal of the infant from the seat. In addition, these and many other prior art infant car seat covers do not necessitate the rotational movement of the handle portion of the car seat as is the intended operation by the manufacturer.

U.S. Pat. No. 7,083,228 to Al Sawan teaches an infant car seat cover providing environmental protection as well as sun shade. Al Sawan teaches a cover with front and rear section for selective covering and is easily employed when the handle portion of the car seat is in the upright carrying position. The device to Al Sawan further provides infant viewing and ventilation portions. However, when used in a vehicle, many car seat manufacturers recommend that the car seat handle is positioned in a stowed position rather than the carrying position. The device to Al Sawan is clearly limited in it's use.

Additional sun shade cover devices are also found in prior art. US. Pat. App. Pub. 2006/0284456 to Compton teaches a device for covering a vehicle seat which extends over the entire car seat of the vehicle including the portion where a infant car seat is located. The device of Compton however is intended for use with a infant car seat employed as a mobile carrier and lacks a user-engageable shade screen.

As such there is a continuing and unmet need for a combined infant car seat cover, which provides the infant seat occupant ongoing shielding from natural and artificial light from all directions. Such a device in addition to multi-angle protection should provide a window shade screen component. Further, such a device should advantageously necessitate the operative employment of the handle portion of a car seat as intended by the manufacturer. Further, such a seat light protection device should also provide in addition to adequate sun and artificial light protection, should also shield the seat occupant from other environmental factors such as wind, cold, rain, dust, etc. Further, such a device should be easily and removably engageable to a vehicle window at the option of the user.

The forgoing examples of related art and limitation related therewith are intended to be illustrative and not exclusive, and they do not imply any limitations on the invention described and claimed herein. Various limitations of the related art will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon a reading and understanding of the specification below and the accompanying drawings.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The device herein disclosed and described provides a solution to the shortcomings in prior art and achieves the above noted goals through the provision of a combined infant car seat shading and protective cover and removably engageable window shade screen. The device is preferably formed as a planar sheet of opaque material which impedes light transmission as needed for adequate sun and artificial light and environmental protection.

The device may be formed from conventional materials such as plush or similar non-irritable fabric suitable for the intended purpose set forth shortly. The planar sheet of material is comprised of a first surface and a second surface and in the particularly preferred mode if formed as a generally oval or elliptical shape about a perimeter edge to provided enhanced utility. It is this elliptical or oval perimeter provides an enhanced full coverage over the occupant portion of the generally oblong-shaped basket housing the occupant of a conventional infant car seat.

In a first particularly preferred mode the device includes an elongated aperture located substantially centrally from the perimeter edges, and extending generally along the minor axis of the preferably elliptical perimeter shape of the device. When employed as a seat cover, the device drapes over the infant car seat, and is preferably employed with the car seat handle in the upright carrying position. An elongated aperture of the device is oriented to be located in a position over the handle portion and provides a means for accessing the handle while simultaneously providing substantial cover over the remaining exposed portions of the basket area housing the occupant of the seat.

It is particularly preferred that the minor axis length of the aperture is less than the distance of the arc of the typically inverted U-shaped car seat handle. Sized in this fashion, the aperture provides a means for the device to be positioned and remain in an elevated tent-like position when draped over the handle. Thus it the device provides screening to the occupant from all incoming angles while being supported a distance away from contacting the child occupant of the seat. The device may optionally provide a removably engaged flap to cover the aperture when handle access is not desired.

Further, in accordance with at least one preferred mode of the device herein, the disclosed device is employable as a window shade screen having means for removable engagement to a vehicle window. In this window shade screen mode, the device configured to be folded substantially in half about the minor axis of the elliptical or oval perimeter. The substantial decrease in surface area once folded provides a more convenient means for window covering as opposed to the conventional coverings. The device may be returned to the elongated oval or elliptical shape when used in the car seat cover mode.

The means for removable engagement may include but are not limited to suction cup type, hooks for operative engagement to the terminating edge of a vehicle window, or combination thereof. The means for removable engagement are generally located on opposite sides of the peripheral edge of the device at or in-line with the minor axis of the device. Those skilled in the art will appreciate various means for removable engagement to a vehicle window within the intended scope of this particularly preferred mode of the device, therefor the descriptions and depictions set forth in this disclosure should not be considered limiting in that manner.

In a further particularly preferred mode the device includes one or a plurality of viewing portions. These viewing portions extend between the first and second surface of the planar material within the oval or elliptical perimeter of the device and can be of transparent material, webbing, or material of the like to allow visual access to the face and body of a seated infant from the exterior of the device-covered seat. The viewing portions may include removably engaged flaps on the first or second surface of the device to cover the viewing portions as desired. The device may additionally include one or a plurality of vents as need for air circulation and ventilation. Furthermore the device may further employ one or a plurality of pockets for storage.

With respect to the above description, before explaining at least one preferred embodiment of the herein disclosed invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangement of the components in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention herein described is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways which will be obvious to those skilled in the art. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.

As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception upon which this disclosure is based may readily be utilized as a basis for designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present disclosed device. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent construction and methodology insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

As used in the claims to describe the various inventive aspects and embodiments, “comprising” means including, but not limited to, whatever follows the word “comprising”. Thus, use of the term “comprising” indicates that the listed elements are required or mandatory, but that other elements are optional and mayor may not be present. By “consisting of’ is meant including, and limited to, whatever follows the phrase “consisting of”. Thus, the phrase “consisting of” indicates that the listed elements are required or mandatory, and that no other elements may be present. By “consisting essentially of” is meant including any elements listed after the phrase, and limited to other elements that do not interfere with or contribute to the activity or action specified in the disclosure for the listed elements. Thus, the phrase “consisting essentially of” indicates that the listed elements are required or mandatory, but that other elements are optional and mayor may not be present depending upon whether or not they affect the activity or action of the listed elements.

It is an object of the invention to provide a combined infant car seat cover which is configured to also be employed as a window-engaged shade screen.

It is another object of the invention to provide a combination infant car seat cover and window shade screen which employs a unique elliptical or oval perimeter and which provides easy access of the carrying handle to allow for use outside the vehicle without removal.

It is still an object of the present invention to provide a combination infant car seat cover and window shade screen with a means to view an infant being carried in a car seat.

It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a combination infant car seat cover and window shade screen that employs a means for removable engagement to a vehicle window.

Further objects of the invention will be brought out in the following part of the specification, wherein detailed description is for the purpose of fully disclosing the invention without placing limitations thereon.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING FIGURES

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated herein and form a part of the specification, illustrate some, but not the only or exclusive, examples of embodiments and/or features. It is intended that the embodiments and figures disclosed herein are to be considered illustrative rather than limiting. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 shows a top view of the device.

FIG. 2 is an end view of the device.

FIG. 3 shows a view of the device as positioned prior to engagement to a infant car seat.

FIG. 3a shows a view of the device employing an optional but preferred flap for covering the viewing portion of the device.

FIG. 4 shows the as used mode of the device employed in the particularly preferred infant car seat cover mode.

FIG. 5 shows a view of the device as folded and positioned prior to engagement to a vehicle window in the other particularly preferred window shade screen mode.

FIG. 6 depicts the as used mode of the device employed in the particularly preferred window shade screen mode.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION

In this description, any directional prepositions of up, upwardly, down, downwardly, front, back, top, upper, bottom, lower, left, right and other such terms refer to the device as it is oriented and appears in the drawings and are used for convenience only. Such terms are not intended to be limiting or to imply that the device has to be used or positioned in any particular orientation.

Now referring to drawings in FIGS. 1-6, wherein similar components are identified by like reference numerals, there is seen in FIG. 1 a top plan view of a preferred mode the device 10. The device 10 as shown has a perimeter edge forming the planar sheet of the device in an oval or elliptical shape. This oval or elliptical shape defined by the perimeter is generally defined by imaginary major axis line 12 and minor axis line 14. While an oval or elliptical perimeter shape is preferred, those skilled in the art will appreciate various other shapes, sizes, and dimensions required to cover various infant car seats currently on the market. As such, the depictions and descriptions set forth in this disclosure should not be considered limiting in the intended scope of the infant car seat cover of the present invention as will become apparent. The various components of the device 10 disclosed herein can be formed of conventional materials however can be formed of any material suitable for the purposes set forth in this disclosure.

The device 10 has a first surface 16 and a second surface 18 (FIG. 2) which meet at a perimeter edge which defines the planar oval or elliptical shape of the sheet of material. The device 10, preferably has a substantially centrally located elongated aperture 20, extending substantially along the minor axis 14 of the oval or elliptical shaped sheet of material and communicating through the first 16 and second 18 surface.

The aperture 20 so positioned, provides a dual function. First it provides a means for a user access and directly grip the inverted U-shaped carrying handle provided in conventional car seats, without removing it. Second, by positioning the aperture in the central portion of the sheet of material, at or near the minor axis 14, the aperture 20 provides a means to removably engage upon, and stay positioned upon the handle which will enter into and occupy a portion of the area of the aperture when the sheet of material is draped upon the seat with the handle extended thereover, much like a grommet will engage upon the end of a tent stick.

Closure fasteners, such as hook 21 and loop 23 fasteners engaged on opposing sides of the aperture 20, may be provided as a means to close the aperture 20 when handle access to carry or position the seat is not desired. In the alternative, if the aperture 20 is omitted, the hook 21 and loop 23 fasteners may be centrally positioned upon the sheet of material and provide a means to secure the central area upon the handle. It should be also noted and anticipated however that any cooperative fastener adapted to the tasks noted herein as would occur to those skilled may be employed in substitute to those named, the fasteners may be any cooperative fastener known in the art such as snaps, buttons, zippers, straps, straps and snaps, or other closures as would occur to those skilled in the art.

The extended length of the aperture 20 is operatively sized to allow for only a portion of an infant car seat handle along the handle axis, to be accessible, in order to maintain the cover 10 in a tent-like configuration. Furthermore the hook 21 and loop fasteners 23 used for closure on the aperture 20 may also provide for a centrally located means for securement of the device 10 about the infant car seat handle, as will become apparent upon further disclosure of FIG. 4.

It is additionally noted and anticipated that although the device is shown in its most simple form, various components and aspects of the device may be differently shaped or slightly modified when forming the invention herein. As such those skilled in the art will appreciate the descriptions and depictions set forth in this disclosure or merely meant to portray examples of preferred modes within the overall scope and intent of the invention, and are not to be considered limiting in any manner.

In accordance with the current preferred mode, the device 10 additionally may include a viewing portion 22 as a means for visual access to the face and body of a seated infant, by a user exterior to the seated infant. The viewing portion 22 is generally comprised of a transparent material such as clear polyethylene or similar material, but may be a woven or knitted mesh which high light transmittance, or other material suitable for the intended purpose of allowing a viewing of the face and body of a seated infant therethrough.

The viewing portion 22 or a plurality thereof, may be permanently or removably engaged to the device 10 such as by means of sewing or hook and loop fasteners. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the size, shape, number, and location of the viewing portion(s) 22 can be varied depending on desired need for visual access, while the depiction set forth is merely shown to imply the intended purpose of the viewing portion 22 and should not be considered limiting by the depiction in the figure.

Further, it is preferred that the device 10 may include one or a plurality of pockets 24 for storage or the like. The pocket 24 is preferably permanently engaged, such as by sewing, to the first surface 16 of the device 10. Alternatively, the pocket 24 may be removably engaged to the first surface 16 such as by hook and loop fasteners engaging the pocket to the first surface 16. It is particularly preferred that the pocket opening 25 be oriented in perpendicular arrangement relative the major axis 12 as this will provide the more effective use and accessability of the pocket 24 in the as used positions as will become apparent shortly.

Shown in an engaged position inline with the minor axis 14 of the shape of the device 10 are the means for removable engagement 26 with a vehicle window. As is shown, the means 26 are disposed on opposing peripheral edges of the device 10 and are comprised of a U-shaped component or hook 30 which extends from the peripheral edge of the device 10 via an extending strip of material 28. The extension 28 is a flexible fabric, elastic, webbing, or similar material that is permanently or removably engaged to the device 10 at the perimeter edge. In use as a window shade screen, the hooks 30 positioned on opposing side edges of the perimeter of the device provide a means for slightly tensioning the material forming the device 10 to fold substantially into two overlapping halves and the smallest footprint achievable. Further the hooks 30 provide a means for engagement on the upper terminating edge of a vehicle window or door, and to the bottom surface of the seat when in the as-used or engaged position on a seat. Additionally shown and preferred are suction cup members 32 which provides added securement as is typically known in the art for removable engagement with windows and smooth surfaces of the like.

FIG. 2 shows an end view of the device 10 detailing the first surface 16 and second surface 18. The first surface 16 generally remains exposed to the environment when in the as used mode and is therefor particularly preferred to be of a water proof or repellant or similar material capable of withstanding environmental factors such as wind, rain, dust, heat, etc. A woven or preferably knitted polyester fabric is one current preferred fabric. The second surface 18 is particularly preferred to be of a softer, more infant friendly material such as a fleece, plush, or non-irritant material of the like and is engaged to the first surface by lamination with adhesive, sewing, or other means for forming a layered fabric sheet. However, the device can be formed of a single material with both surfaces being opposing sides of the fabric sheet.

FIG. 3 depicts the device 10 prior to engagement with a conventional infant car seat 100. As mention, the aperture 20 is positioned to engage upon a portion of the carrying handle 102 of the infant car seat 100 once in the device 10 is placed in the as-used or engaged position on the seat. As shown in the figure, the viewing portion 22 if present, is situated to be placed over the infant car seat 100 where the head is typically placed.

FIG. 3a shows a depiction of an optional yet preferred mode of the device 10 having a planar flap portion 36 for covering the viewing portion 22 as needed. The flap 36 may be formed of a flexible fabric or material of the like, or the same fabric as the first surface, and is sized to cover the area of the viewing portion 22. The flap 36 is preferably engaged to the first surface 16 of the device 10 on one edge 38 by permanent engagement such as adhesive or by sewing, or may be engaged by removable engagement such as with cooperating fasteners or hook and loop fabric cooperating fasteners, or the like.

As seen in FIG. 4 the device 10 is depicted in the as-used or engaged position upon an infant car seat. The device 10 is essentially draped over the infant car seat 100 allowing the peripheral edge 19 to hang freely about the car seat 100. However, the hook 30 and suction cup member 32 comprising the means for removable engagement 26 with a vehicle window or door, may additionally be employed as a means to engage the device 10 to the side of the car seat 100 as shown.

Due to the varying constructions and models of infant car seats on the market, the means for removable engagement 26 may in some cases not adequately engage in this manner and may alternatively hang freely, or they may be engaged with elastic fabric which allows for stretching during seat mounting, but which will not stretch when engaged to the window and simply supporting the weight of the device 10. Alternatively, it may be preferred that the means for removable engagement 26 may itself be removably engaged to the peripheral edges 19 such as by hook and loop fasteners, cooperating fasteners, snaps, or the like, and can be removed when employing the device 10 in the as-used or engaged position as an infant car seat cover. The pocket 24 is also shown with pocket opening 25 oriented for operative use.

As previously mentioned the aperture 20 of the device 10 is preferred to position a limited portion of the handle 102 to be exposed for user access and gripping therethrough. In this manner the aperture 20 provides a central mount engaged over the handle 102, and a means for inhibiting slippage from the handle and for maintaining the device 10 in a tent-like configuration as shown. Additionally the hook and loop fasteners 21, 23, or ties or elongated elastic with cooperating fasteners may be employed to partially close the aperture 20 over a portion of the car seat handle 102 providing further securement of the device 10 over the car seat 100.

FIG. 5 shows the device 10 employed as a window shade screen. A slight tensioning of the opposing hooks 30 away from each other, along the minor axis of the device 10, provides a means for determining and folding the fabric sheet in half about the minor axis 14 exposing the means for removable engagement 26 at the folded edge. A typical vehicle window 200 is also shown. In use, the device 10 employed as a window shade screen is positioned with the hooks 30 oriented for operative engagement with the upper terminating edge 202 of the vehicle window 200.

As seen in FIG. 6 the device 10 is engaged to the vehicle window 200 about the terminating edge 202 as described. The user may simply roll the window up onto the hooks 30 for secured engagement. The suction cups 32 further provide a means for secured removable engagement to the window surface 200. Furthermore, it is particularly preferred that the suction cups 32 may be employed without the hooks 30 engaged to the terminating edge 202, if a lower position is desired while the window is closed. The pocket 24 is again shown with the pocket opening 25 oriented for operative employment as desired.

This invention has other applications, potentially, and one skilled in the art could discover these. The explication of the features of this invention does not limit the claims of this application; other applications developed by those skilled in the art will be included in this invention. Thus, upon reading this disclosure, those skilled in the art may recognize various other means to provide a combination car seat cover and window shade, which may be considerably or slightly different than that disclosed, however are considered within the scope and intent of the invention herein, and are anticipated within the scope of this patent.

While all of the fundamental characteristics and features of the invention have been shown and described herein, with reference to particular embodiments thereof, a latitude of modification, various changes and substitutions are intended in the foregoing disclosure and it will be apparent that in some instances, some features of the invention may be employed without a corresponding use of other features without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth. It should also be understood that various substitutions, modifications, and variations may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Consequently, all such modifications and variations and substitutions are included within the scope of the invention as defined by the following claims.

Claims

1. A screen configured for an engagement upon an infant car seat having a handle defined by a gripable cross member engaged between two vertical members extending above opposing sides of the car seat, said screen comprising:

a planar sheet of material having a first surface and a second surface and having a perimeter edge defining a shape;

said sheet of material formed of material providing a shading of an occupant of said car seat from light transmitted toward said occupant from all directions; and

means for maintaining a central portion of said planar sheet, positioned upon said cross member of said handle of said car seat, with said perimeter edge concurrently positioned adjacent to said side edges of said car seat, whereby said sheet is maintained in an engaged position with said car seat and providing said shading to an occupant thereof.

2. The screen of claim 1, wherein said means for maintaining said central portion of said planar sheet, positioned upon said cross member, comprises:

an aperture formed in said central portion of said planar sheet of material; and

said aperture providing a space for a communication of a portion of said cross member into said space; and

said communication of said portion of said cross member into said space forming said means for maintaining a central portion of said planar sheet of material, positioned upon said cross member.

3. The screen of claim 2 additionally comprising:

said portion of said cross member communicating within said space providing means for a gripping of said handle by a hand of a user in a direct contact with only said handle; and

whereby said car seat may be transitioned between a mounted position within a vehicle, and a carried position during a said gripping of said handle, with said sheet of planar material continually in said engaged position.

4. The screen of claim 1 additionally comprising:

a pair of fasteners engaged upon opposing sides of said planar sheet of material;

said fasteners adapted for an engagement with a closed window on a vehicle;

a tensioning of said planar sheet of material by imparting a force in opposite directions upon said fasteners causing a fold in said planar sheet of material to a folded position, substantially at a mid line between two halves;

said planar sheet of material in said folded position, engageable to said window of said vehicle to thereby provide a shade from said light which is transmitted toward said occupant from a direction of said window.

5. The screen of claim 2 additionally comprising:

a pair of fasteners engaged upon opposing sides of said planar sheet of material;

said fasteners adapted for an engagement with a closed window on a vehicle;

a tensioning of said planar sheet of material by imparting a force in opposite directions upon said fasteners causing a fold in said planar sheet of material to a folded position, substantially at a mid line between two halves;

said planar sheet of material in said folded position, engageable to said window of said vehicle to thereby provide a shade from said light which is transmitted toward said occupant from a direction of said window.

6. The screen of claim 3 additionally comprising:

a pair of fasteners engaged upon opposing sides of said planar sheet of material;

said fasteners adapted for an engagement with a closed window on a vehicle;

a tensioning of said planar sheet of material by imparting a force in opposite directions upon said fasteners causing a fold in said planar sheet of material to a folded position, substantially at a mid line between two halves;

said planar sheet of material in said folded position, engageable to said window of said vehicle to thereby provide a shade from said light which is transmitted toward said occupant from a direction of said window.

7. The screen of claim 2 additionally comprising:

said shape of said planar sheet of material being an oval or elliptical shape having a major axis communicating between two side edges distanced further from each other than a second pair of side edges having a minor axis communicating therebetween; and

said aperture positioned along or adjacent to said minor axis.

8. The screen of claim 3 additionally comprising:

said shape of said planar sheet of material being an oval or elliptical shape having a major axis communicating between two side edges distanced further from each other than a second pair of side edges having a minor axis communicating therebetween; and

said aperture positioned along or adjacent to said minor axis.

9. The screen of claim 4 additionally comprising:

said shape of said planar sheet of material being an oval or elliptical shape having a major axis communicating between two side edges distanced further from each other than a second pair of side edges having a minor axis communicating therebetween; and

said aperture positioned along or adjacent to said minor axis.

10. The screen of claim 5 additionally comprising:

said shape of said planar sheet of material being an oval or elliptical shape having a major axis communicating between two side edges distanced further from each other than a second pair of side edges having a minor axis communicating therebetween; and

said aperture positioned along or adjacent to said minor axis.

11. The screen of claim 6 additionally comprising:

said shape of said planar sheet of material being an oval or elliptical shape having a major axis communicating between two side edges distanced further from each other than a second pair of side edges having a minor axis communicating therebetween; and

said aperture positioned along or adjacent to said minor axis.

12. The screen of claim 1, additionally comprising:

a viewing area communicating through said sheet of planar material; and

said viewing area providing a user a view of said occupant unimpeded by said shading of said sheet of planar material.

13. The screen of claim 2, additionally comprising:

a viewing area communicating through said sheet of planar material; and

said viewing area providing a user a view of said occupant unimpeded by said shading of said sheet of planar material.

14. The screen of claim 3, additionally comprising:

a viewing area communicating through said sheet of planar material; and

said viewing area providing a user a view of said occupant unimpeded by said shading of said sheet of planar material.

15. The screen of claim 4, additionally comprising:

a viewing area communicating through said sheet of planar material; and

said viewing area providing a user a view of said occupant unimpeded by said shading of said sheet of planar material.

16. The screen of claim 7, additionally comprising:

a viewing area communicating through said sheet of planar material; and

said viewing area providing a user a view of said occupant unimpeded by said shading of said sheet of planar material.

17. The screen of claim 10, additionally comprising:

a viewing area communicating through said sheet of planar material; and

said viewing area providing a user a view of said occupant unimpeded by said shading of said sheet of planar material.

18. The screen of claim 11, additionally comprising:

a viewing area communicating through said sheet of planar material; and

said viewing area providing a user a view of said occupant unimpeded by said shading of said sheet of planar material.