Full Vision (i.e., Wraparound) Patents (Class 296/96.12)
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Patent number: 10532634Abstract: A vehicle windscreen assembly includes a first windscreen at a front section of a vehicle and a second windscreen positioned beneath and at an angled position with the first windscreen. The second windscreen substantially reduces a driver's blind spot area in front of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: FARADAY&FUTURE INC.Inventors: Nicholas Max Gronenthal, Nicholas Clyde Bennett
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Patent number: 9365161Abstract: A vehicle windshield with a top edge extended such as to provide a lower drag coefficient and giving the driver a wider panoramic vertical viewing angle and having an integrated shading means, having no movable parts and utilizing a material which is capable changing its light transmittance electrically and with a controlling means which mimics the aesthetics of a conventional mechanical blind.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Mario Arturo Mannheim AsteteInventors: Mario Arturo Mannheim Astete, Andrés Fernando Sarmiento Santos, Camilo Ignacio Cuervo Figueredo, Manuel Leonardo Serrano Rey, Juliana Schottborgh Rodríguez, Jimmy Alexander Quijano Reyes, Charles S. Voetzel
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Patent number: 8980402Abstract: The invention relates to a curved glass pane, made of float glass, the area of a main face of which is greater than 1.5 m2 and the product of its two depths of bending is greater than 3000 mm2, and such that its point located on the normal to its surface passing through its center of gravity has a radius of curvature of less than 3 m in any direction, the variation in its thickness in the longitudinal float direction being less than 10 ?m over 500 mm. This pane may be assembled into laminated glazing of the automobile windshield type. Such a windshield has a very small amount of double imaging even when it is fitted into the vehicle so as to be close to the horizontal.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2010Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass FranceInventors: Corinne Payen, Herve Thellier, Jean-Luc Lesage
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Patent number: 8317257Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle is provided with a first and second sub-assembly. The first sub-assembly has a chassis supporting an air tank. The second sub-assembly has part of the vehicle body and is bonded to the first-sub-assembly using a structural adhesive. Another pneumatic vehicle is provided with a first and second sub-assembly. The first sub-assembly has a chassis, air tank, part of the vehicle body, a pair of B-pillars, and a pair of rear rails. The second sub-assembly has a part of the vehicle body, a pair of A-pillars, and a pair of roof rails. A vehicle seat is provided with a seat base and upright seat back providing a seating area. A bladder located in the central region of the seating area inflates to provide two bucket seats, and deflates to provide a bench seat. The vehicle seat also has inflatable inserts to provide cushioning.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Deakin UniversityInventors: Bernard Frank Rolfe, Timothy Ian De Souza, Gregory Ryan Pitts, Stuart James McFarlane Hanafin, Steven Lewis Anthony Agius, Benjamin Paul Adamson, Michael Pio Gordon Pereira, Timothy John Black, Christopher James Hurren, Noel Egan Miller
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Patent number: 7661747Abstract: A windshield assembly includes a windshield frame constructed to support a windshield. A plurality of couplers are secured to the windshield frame, and a tower frame for a wakeboard tow rope or cable attachment, radar arch or the like is connected to the windshield frame via the couplers. In one arrangement, the couplers are connected to the wing sections of the windshield frame, and the tower frame extends between the wing sections and above an area defined between the wing sections. The integrated tower frame and windshield simplifies installation for the boat manufacturer while accommodating many varieties of tower and windshield configurations.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Taylor Made Group, LLCInventors: Edward J. Erskine, Robert R. Shearer
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Patent number: 7591231Abstract: A multi-piece bottom trim member secures a curved sheet element such as a boat windshield on a surface such as a boat hull. The trim member includes a base member securable to the surface and including a supporting leg, and an upper member including a base member receiving channel that is shaped to receive the supporting leg of the base member. The upper member is positionable relative to the base member to accommodate varying angles of the curved sheet.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2007Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Taylor Made Group, Inc.Inventors: Robert R. Shearer, Edward J. Erskine
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Patent number: 7418917Abstract: A hidden marine windshield mounting system and method, utilizing a cooperative pair of elongated base members, longitudinally extending around the front of and fastened to a marine vessel deck. The two elongated base members cooperatively interlock with one another to form a single windshield mounting base unit, having a substantially vertically erect windshield receiving area for adhesion of most usually, curved windshield tempered glass. Mounted onto the top of the curved windshield glass is an elongated trim member, which may come into contact at its ends, with the ends of the base member pair. The base member pair can be forcibly separable from one another after stretch forming for assembly, installation and for glass replacement.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2005Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Inventor: Darren Ashley Bach
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Patent number: 7413397Abstract: A work vehicle with a front loader is disclosed. The work vehicle includes a traveling control section having an operator's seat, a hood provided forwardly of the traveling control section, a pair of masts provided on right and left sides of the hood, a pair of booms projecting forwardly from upper ends of the masts and an implement detachably connected to the booms. An upper face of the hood is inclined downwardly from its rear upper portion to its front upper portion. The inclined upper face is located adjacent a downward line of sight from an operator's space in the traveling control section to a connecting portion between each boom and the implement.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2005Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Naoya Muramoto, Arinobu Ishida, Masataka Takagi, Masayuki Nakano, Koichi Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 7250206Abstract: A window pane (1), in particular an automobile window pane, is adhesively bonded to a frame (8) of a window opening by an adhesive bead (6), and carries a profiled bead (3) provided with a recess (4) extending longitudinally and a tear-away cord (8) laid therein. Tear-away cord (8) is designed for breaking the adhesive bond between window pane (1) and frame (7). A contact surface is provided for adhesive bead (6) alongside profiled bead (3). In the fitted state, recess (4) is open toward adhesive bead (6) so that the tear-away cord may be pulled without exerting a high force directly in the adhesive bead that abuts the opening of the recess.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2005Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass FranceInventors: Thomas Orten, Thomas Bischof, Gerd Cornils, Dietmar Kolf
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Patent number: 7237836Abstract: A motor vehicle roof with a roof plate which has a transparent plastic area to which a peripheral plastic edge is molded which is used especially as a cover visor and which extends downward.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2006Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Webasto AGInventors: Miriam Schoenauer, Joachim Birkner, Michael Koelbl, Alexander Lang, Rudi Muttenhammer, Martin Pollak, Ralf Schwaighofer, Friedhelm Wulf, Jean-Guy Cocaign
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Patent number: 6860540Abstract: A windshield fixing structure of a passenger car capable of assuring a high safety by preventing a dead angle obstructing a visibility from being produced in the slanting forward direction of a driver which comprises: a windshield; front pillars; and side panels, wherein the windshield is formed of a front part and both side parts and formed in a plate of substantially channel shape in cross section bent to a substantially right angle, each of the front pillars is provided on a body side-face part on the side of a steering wheel in a substantially vertical direction from the side panel, and the vertical width of each of the side panels is gradually reduced from the portion of the windshield substantially just below a bend of the substantially right angle to the portion of the windshield where the front pillar is provided vertically.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2002Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Inventor: Kazuhiro Yoshida
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Patent number: 6764124Abstract: A car body structure for a convertible car that has a folding roof and a transparent windshield covering an front window opening comprises a door opening and closing a door opening in a side body section and a pillar member extending almost vertically from the side body section so as to support each side of the transparent windshield. The pillar member is positioned behind the front window opening so that the transparent windshield extends near besides occupants sitting on a seat of the car.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2002Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Isao Tohda, Haruo Ohe, Naohiro Imaoka
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Publication number: 20040104591Abstract: A windshield fixing structure of a passenger car capable of assuring a high safety by preventing a dead angle obstructing a visibility from being produced in the slanting forward direction of a driver which comprises: a windshield; front pillars; and side panels, wherein the windshield is formed of a front part and both side parts and formed in a plate of substantially channel shape in cross section bent to a substantially right angle, each of the front pillars is provided on a body side-face part on the side of a steering wheel in a substantially vertical direction from the side panel, and the vertical width of each of the side panels is gradually reduced from the portion of the windshield substantially just below a bend of the substantially right angle to the portion of the windshield where the front pillar is provided vertically.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Inventor: Kazuhiro Yoshida
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Publication number: 20030030297Abstract: A car body structure for a convertible car that has a folding roof and a transparent windshield covering an front window opening comprises a door opening and closing a door opening in a side body section and a pillar member extending almost vertically from the side body section so as to support each side of the transparent windshield. The pillar member is positioned behind the front window opening so that the transparent windshield extends near besides occupants sitting on a seat of the car.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2002Publication date: February 13, 2003Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Tohda, Haruo Ohe, Naohiro Imaoka