Abstract: A roll-up window shade for motor vehicle windows is provided that has guide rails running at the side of the extended shade element. A linear push element is provided for each guide rail. Each push element is driven by a separate gear. Therefore, complicated guide tubes, which among other problems generate a lot of friction, are eliminated. A trunk cover has a guide rail on each side of the shade element. For driving the shade element, a push element is provided for each guide rail. The push element is constructed as a non-endless drive element. Each push element is driven by a separate motor and a separate gear. Electrical synchronization of the motors is not provided.

Abstract: The sunblocking device has an elongated blocking member having a portion that is folded back and attached to the elongated member to form an elongated opening. Extending through the opening is a strap that is preferably elastic that fits around a vehicle visor to secure the device to the visor.

Abstract: A sunshade for an automobile placed upon a dashboard in the interior of the vehicle provides a reflective outer surface to deflect heat and sunlight through the windshield into a vehicle during hot weather conditions and also provides the outer surface with heat strip elements when enabled during cold weather to provide a radiant heat to the windshield to prevent ice build-up on the windshield maintaining a clear windshield during freezing temperatures, the heat strip elements drawings a low voltage current from a rechargeable battery supply or a 12 volt DC power from a cigarette lighter plug, or both.

Abstract: A visor is mounted to a vehicle such that it pivots from a pocket in a vehicle headliner adjacent the windshield downwardly away from the windshield from the stored position to a use position. A mounting bracket coupled to the visor and mounting clip coupled to the vehicle cooperate to hold the visor in a stored position and allow its pivoting to a lowered use position and movement in connection with a pivot rod assembly on the opposite end of the visor to a side window position. The pivot rod assembly includes a cam mechanism for lowering the visor as it pivots from the front window position to the side window position. A push-push spring-loaded pivoted extender panel can be deployed from an edge of the visor to increase sun blocking.

Abstract: A vehicle window sunshade assembly includes a vehicle structure, a trim member, a sunshade and a close-out member. The trim member is dimensioned to at least partially cover the vehicle structure. The trim member also has a sunshade opening and attachment portions for coupling to the vehicle structure. The sunshade has an end supported by the vehicle structure. The sunshade is movable between a retracted position and an extended position such that in the extended position at least a portion of the sunshade extends through the sunshade opening. The close-out member is supported by the vehicle structure and positioned such that with the trim member installed to the vehicle structure the close-out member extends generally around the end of the sunshade to conceal an area behind the end of the sunshade from view through the sunshade opening.

Abstract: Methods of deploying and stowing a sunshade utilizing a wiper-based system, including selectively engaging the sunshade and wiper, actuating the wiper, so as to deploy the shade, locking the wiper in the deployed position, so as to reduce the thermal load in a confined space, and returning the wiper after use, so as to stow the shade.

Abstract: An automobile sun visor with an electromechanical sun shade device preferably comprising an elongated housing with a generally tear-shaped profile that is adapted for pivotally-adjustable installation at essentially any location proximate the interior roof of a vehicle and that attractively accommodates all necessary elements of the device therewithin, a scissor-type extension mechanism with interdependent, multi-stage frame support layers that evenly and supportively extend and adjust to a plurality of lengths, a two-layer screening system that surrounds the extension mechanism on all sides via a releasable connector, and that is adapted for preferential variation of interior versus exterior display during deployment, and a motorized control system with guide elements.

Abstract: A drive motor assembly for a vehicle sunshade assembly includes a motor and a stabilizing unit. The motor has a housing, and an axle extending through the housing and having two ends respectively protruding outwardly of the housing. The stabilizing unit is connected to and provides an urging force to one of the ends of the axle in an axial direction thereof toward the housing.

Abstract: A sunshade assembly includes a housing, the housing enclosing a lengthwise interior space and including a lengthwise slot extending between the interior space and an outer surface of the housing; and a sunshade apparatus disposed within the housing and including a sheet of shade material wound upon a roller and unwindable therefrom to an extended position. The sheet of shade material is biased to a wound configuration around the roller and is extendible through the slot. A leading edge of the shade material includes a support bar attached thereto. The support bar is disposed outside of the housing and is configured and dimensioned so that it cannot be withdrawn through the slot into the housing. Also provided herein is a kit for mounting the sunshade assembly to an interior surface of a vehicle.

Abstract: A motor vehicle is provided that includes, but is not limited to a windowpane and a protective sunscreen for the windowpane, and the protective sunscreen exhibits a cover that can be moved from a non-use position into a use position, in which the cover at least partially covers the windowpane. The cover exhibits a rigid load-bearing section that accommodates at least one sun visor, which can be moved from a non-use position into a use position.

Abstract: A sunshade device comprises a sunshade in the form of a roller blind forming part of a roller-blind device, comprising a supporting structure, a shaft for rolling of the sunshade blind, mounted so that it can rotate on the aforesaid supporting structure, and a shape-memory actuator device for causing displacement of the blind from the rolled-up condition to the distended condition.

Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-dazzle sun visor (100) for use in the upper part of a windshield of a motor vehicle. The anti-dazzle sun visor (100) is characterized by a screen (110) which is hinged to a suspension (120), mounted so as to be movable to be displaced along the windshield, and a curtain (130) which is extensible below a part (11) of the windshield considered to be shadable, said curtain extending between the mobile suspension (120) and the upper edge of the windshield.

Abstract: The sun shade operation device 100 of the present invention includes a drive unit M; at least one shaft 1 directly or indirectly transmitted with a rotary torque generated by the drive unit M; a plurality of gears 2 integrally rotating with the shaft 1 with the one shaft 1 as center of rotation; a plurality of control cables 41, 42, 43 for engaging with the gears 2 and moving in a longitudinal direction with the rotational movement of the gears 2; and an accommodation body for accommodating one end of the shaft 1 and the plurality of gears 2, and through which the plurality of control cables pass. Furthermore, the accommodation body has a member 32 formed with a space for passing axially adjacent control cables interposed between a pair of sandwiching members 31, 33.

Abstract: A motor vehicle is provided that has a window pane, preferably a windshield, which has an upper pane section and a lower pane section. Furthermore, a sun visor for the upper pane section and a cover are provided, which may be moved from a starting position via a first position, in which the cover conceals the upper pane section, into a second position, in which the cover additionally conceals the lower pane section. The sun visor is implemented as light-transparent in a way which attenuates the incident light through the upper pane section.

Abstract: A roller blind for a side window of a motor vehicle. The roller blind has a winding shaft, which is coupled via an articulated or flexible coupling mechanism to a spring drive situated outside the winding shaft. The winding shaft and the spring drive are accommodated inside a vertical window frame segment of a motor vehicle's window. The articulated or flexible coupling between the winding shaft and the spring drive makes it possible to approximate a curved path by means of two normally straight elements of the blind. Furthermore, a very flat characteristic tension curve can be achieved for the spring drive, even when the winding shaft is very short.

Abstract: The invention shields most unwanted debris and acts of mother-nature from entering an automobile's window. The invention is designed to be mounted on the exterior of any vehicle. The screen can be retracted to the stow-away position when not desirable, and can also be attached to the window when desired, very easily.

Abstract: A sunshade assembly includes a pair of rails each having an inner wall defining a recess therewithin, a screen unit, and a pair of positioning units. The screen unit includes a roller, and a screen having a fixed end secured to the roller, a free end, and opposite peripheral edge portions. Each positioning unit includes a slide member and a lock member. The slide member is mounted to a respective one of the peripheral edge portions and extends into the recess to be slidably disposed therein. The slide member has an inclined surface positioned in the recess. The lock member is disposed between the inclined surface and the inner wall, and is operable between a locked state where the lock member is clamped between the inclined surface and the inner wall, and a released state where the lock member is loosely held between the inclined surface and the inner wall.

Abstract: A sunshade assembly includes a pair of spaced-apart rails, a roller unit, a screen, and a position-retaining unit. Each rail has opposite front and rear ends, and is formed with a track therealong. The roller unit is spaced apart from the front end, and includes an inner tube member and an outer tube member. The screen has a fixed end secured to the outer tube member, a free end, and opposite peripheral edge portions extending into the tracks. The position-retaining unit includes an annular spool, a rope, and a spiral spring. The rope extends along one of the rails, loops around the rear end, and passes through the track in the rail. The spiral spring is disposed in the spool, and has an inner end connected to the outer tube member and an outer end connected to the spool.

Abstract: A sunshade assembly includes a roller, a pair of rails, and a screen unit. Each rail includes an upper wall, and a lower wall cooperating with the upper wall to define a recess therebetween. A screen unit includes a screen having opposite peripheral edge portions and operable between a wound state and an extended state, and a pair of abutment pieces. Each abutment piece is slidably disposed in the recess, and includes an arcuate first portion fixed to a respective one of the peripheral edge portions of the screen and abutting against the lower wall of the respective rail, and a second portion. The first portion arches downwardly in a normal state, and arches upwardly in an abnormal state caused by pulling of the screen. The second portion abuts against the lower wall in the normal state and against the upper wall in the abnormal state.

Abstract: A visor extension device for attaching to a sun visor to provide additional screening of bright light beyond a perimeter of the sun visor includes a plate being mountable to the sun visor. A sleeve is slidably mounted to the plate. The sleeve is downwardly extended from the plate to provide additional blocking of light below the sun visor. The sleeve has a slot extending through the sleeve and through opposing ends of the sleeve. Each of the opposing ends of the sleeve slidably receives one of a plurality of extension plates. The extension plates are selectively extendable from the associated one of the opposing ends to block light to the sides of the sun visor.

Abstract: A support assembly for use on a shade in a vehicle is disclosed. The support assembly includes a base end cap and a nose insulator secured to an end of the base end cap. The support assembly also includes a removable extension arranged over the nose insulator and a portion of the base end cap. A second nose insulator is secured to an end of the removable extension for interaction with an inside surface of the vehicle.

Abstract: A sun visor that includes a clear base portion and a small shade portion that can be selectively moved to block only the sun depending on its orientation. In one embodiment, the shade portion is manually movable relative to the base portion. In another embodiment, the shade portion is automatically moved relative to the base portion by an actuator. A controller calculates the vehicle heading and the sun-incident angle to determine the proper position of the shade portion. A switch can be used to switch the actuator on when the visor is in the down position. In an alternate embodiment, the shade portion is replaced with electro-chromic elements mounted to the base portion that are controlled to selectively block the sunlight.

Abstract: A side window roller blind is provided. The roller blind includes a support rod having a free end connected to a tension bar. In order to prevent rattling noises, the ends of the tension bar are provided with rollers that contact the window pane such that the support rod is elastically bent during extension of the blind. In addition, the window blind is provided with aligning aids that prevent the tension bar from hitting on the slot edges during retraction of the blind, and from blocking additional retraction, due to vibrations about the longitudinal axis of the tension bar.

Abstract: A winder is provided near a quarter window of a rear door. A shade member is drawably mounted about the winder. A connecting piece is connected to a drawing arm and mounted to the rear portion of the shade member. A shoe is mounted to a bottom end of the drawing arm. The shoe engages with a regulatory groove extending in a drawing direction of the shade member. A driving cable is connected to the shoe. The shade member can be drawn out across the window by the drawing arm via the sending out of the driving cable by an operating mechanism. Since the regulatory groove extends substantially in a circle, when the shoe moves through engagement with the regulatory groove, the connecting piece connected to the drawing arm pivots relative to the shoe.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle, in which at least one microphone (8) is mounted in the headlining 94) of a passenger cell of the vehicle. The microphone is mounted in a location, which is concealed by a sun visor (6) that is pivotally mounted on the headlining (4) when said visor has been pivoted to lie against the headlining (4). At least the area (7) of the sun visor (6) that conceals the microphone is configured to conduct sound.

Abstract: A retractable window shade comprises at least one spool assembly and at least one track assembly. The spool assembly includes a spool having film windable thereupon with opposing film edges. The film edges have a series of spaced perforations extending therealong. The spool assembly further comprises a motor and clutch assembly configured to rotatably couple the motor to the spool. The track assembly is oriented laterally outwardly relative to the spool assembly and includes a drive chain that is engaged to a sprocket which is coupled to the motor. The drive chain is configured to the engage the perforations of the film for extending and retracting the film during activation of the motor.

Abstract: A door inside panel includes a panel body (12) having a first fixing device (18) and an upper pelmet (14) arranged proximate the upper edge of the panel body (12) and housed in a cavity (16) which opens on the visible side of the inside panel, the pelmet (14) including a second fixing device (20). The fixing devices (18, 20) have co-operating positions wherein they cause the pelmet (14) to be fixed to the panel body (12), a first position wherein the entire edge of the pelmet (14) is in contact with the panel body, and a second position wherein the edge of the pelmet (14) is spaced apart from the panel body (12) proximate the upper edge and forms a slot (28). The invention is suitable for an automotive door.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sun visor system comprising: a main visor system assembly for mounting on a motor vehicle; a visor guide assembly; a visor extension arm having a first end that pivotally engages the main visor system assembly and a second end including an opening therethrough; a sun visor having an visor guide bar extending through and pivotally engaging the opening and slidably engaging the visor guide assembly, wherein the main visor system assembly includes driving means for moving the visor extension arm between an extended and retracted position, and wherein when the visor extension arm is moved between the extended and retracted positions to cause the visor guide to bar travel along the visor guide assembly, thereby moving the visor between a side window sun protecting position and a visor retracted position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sunshade apparatus for automobiles. In the apparatus, first and second linking rods, which function to stretch or close first and second arm units jointed to a shade bar, are actuated by first and second racks, which are engaged with motor-operated first and second drive pinions and are rectilinearly moved in opposite directions. Further, torsion springs are fitted over respective pivots, which joint the upper arm members of the first and second arm units to the shade bar, such that the torsion springs can promote the stretching of respective upper arm members. The torsion springs can be easily assembled in the apparatus, do not generate vibration or noises, and are light, thus reducing the power required to move the shade bar upwards or downwards. Therefore, the present invention realizes the smallness of the drive unit and the lightness of the sunshade apparatus.

Abstract: The vehicle visor with an auxiliary sunshade includes a sunshade, which is slidably mounted to a vehicle visor so that when the vehicle visor is in a lowered position, the sunshade may be selectively lowered to block environmental light beyond a lower edge of the vehicle visor. The sunshade may be either mounted to an exterior surface of the vehicle visor, or may be mounted within the vehicle visor. The sunshade has a horizontally extending opening formed therethrough, and a slat is rotatably mounted to the sunshade so that the slat selectively covers the horizontally extending opening and is angularly adjustable about a horizontal axis. The angularly adjustable slat allows the user to selectively observe a roadway through the horizontally extending opening with the slat being selectively angled to block interfering environmental light. The slat may alternatively be formed directly within the vehicle visor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle shading device, including a blind sheet capable of moving according to an axis of deployment between a folded position and at least one deployed position, one end of said blind sheet being mounted on a roller tube. According to the invention, said blind sheet has at least one holding and/or guiding element separated from the lateral edges of said blind sheet and extending parallel to said axis of deployment, and cooperating with a guide rail having a complementary cross-section to that of said holding and/or guiding element, said guide rail being formed in or on a cross-piece extending inside said vehicle.

Abstract: A window shade is stored on a storage roller mounted beneath a vehicle window opening. A trim panel has a slot through which the window shade may be unwound and raised to a use position shading the window. One or more hooks are attached to the window shade to engage with mating hook retainers at the top of the window opening to retain the window shade in its raised position. The lowered position of the window shade is established by the hook being engaged with a corresponding hook retainer on the trim panel. A finger grip is pivotally mounted on the upper end of the window shade so that the finger grip can have a predetermined pivotal position corresponding to the lowered position of the window shade and a different pivotal position when the window shade is in the raised position.

Abstract: A rear window roller blind for motor vehicles which has a pull rod assembly with a contoured plate. The contoured plate is used to close the segmented residual gap between the straight pull rod assembly and the curved top edge of the rear window. In order for the contoured plate to lie flush with a rear shelf below the rear window when the roller blind is in a retracted position, it is pivotable about a longitudinal axis of the pull rod assembly during movement of the pull rod between its retracted and extended positions. Such rotational movement is controlled by the contour of guide rails within which the pull rod is guided during such pull out movement.

Abstract: A vehicle window interior shade assembly includes a vehicle shade support structure, a first shade, a second shade, and a trim member. The vehicle shade support structure is configured for installation adjacent to a window opening. The first shade and second shades are movably coupled to the vehicle shade support structure to move between respective retracted positions and extended positions. The trim member is coupled to a first leading edge portion of the first shade and includes an elongated recess configured to releasably receive a second leading edge portion of the second shade to form a continuous shade structure when the first and second shades are in both in their extended positions.

Abstract: In a sunshade device for the rear door window of an automobile both ends of a sunshade screen rod, to which an end of the sunshade screen wound on the winding roll biased by an elastic member in a frame is fastened, are raised and lowered by a telescopic bar and an actuation arm, which are extended or retracted and erected or tilted through a single driving mechanism assembly including a driving motor, so as to spread or wind the sunshade screen.

Abstract: Assume that the position of a sun visor main body is adjusted by an occupant when incident light having the incident angle ?1 has entered a vehicle passenger compartment. Then, a straight line L1 is obtained that passes through the distal end position S1 of the moved sun visor main body and is inclined by the same angle as the incident angle ?1. At this time, the intersection between a straight line Y1, which passes through an eye position P0 of a average sized person and extends along the vertical direction of a vehicle, and the straight line L1 is estimated as an eye position P1 of the occupant. Thereafter, a light blocking control is performed in accordance with the estimated eye position P1.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electromotive sunvisor assembly of a vehicle and a method thereof in which a visor body is automatically movable to the outside of an overhead storage room and can be pivoted at a moving shielding site. The electromotive sunvisor assembly of a vehicle comprises an upper guide bar and a lower guide bar. An upper driving member is glidingly disposed at the upper guide bar. A lower driving member is glidingly disposed at the lower guide bar. A rotary shaft is extended from the lower driving member in a lateral direction. A mounting bar is rotatably disposed at the rotary shaft and a visor body is fixed thereto. A rotational operation slat is formed protrudently from the mounting bar. A link is axially connected to one side of the upper driving member and the other end thereof is axially connected to the rotational operation slat.

Abstract: In a vehicle including a cab, having a windshield with opposed upper and lower edges, bounding an interior, a dashboard extending into the interior proximate the lower edge of the windshield, a hood extending forwardly of the cab proximate the lower edge of the windshield, a sitting position in the interior of the vehicle rearward of the dashboard, and a field of view to the hood through the windshield overlying the dashboard from the sitting position, improvements therein consisting of a visor, having a glare suppressing property, mounted in the field of view adjacent to the lower edge of the windshield and the dashboard suppressing glare from the hood in the field of view.

Abstract: A system designed to provide shade for the driver and the front passenger in an automobile. Shades can be flipped up and either pulled out or power driven out to provide shade. Any suitable shapes and materials may be employed for the shades. In an alternative embodiment a shade is inflated and clipped on.

Abstract: A sun visor includes a sun-visor body, an auxiliary visor, a sub-plate and a spring. The auxiliary visor is attached to the sun-visor body slidably. The sub-plate is attached to the auxiliary visor to slide between a first position where the auxiliary visor receives the sub-plate and a second position where the sub-plate is withdrawn from the auxiliary visor. The spring urges the sub-plate toward the second position. The spring includes a base and two arm portions continuous to the base. The center portion of a spring wire forms the base of the spring. The two arm portions are bent to cross each other. A center portion of the base is convex toward an intersection of the two arm portions. The base abuts against one of the auxiliary visor and the sub-plate. The two arm portions abut against the other to urge the other elastically.

Abstract: A rear-window roller blind assembly for motor vehicles in which the roller blind is movable out of a pull-out slit to an extended position through movement of a pull-out element on a free edge thereof. The pull-out element includes a center piece and relatively movable end pieces shaped so that when the pull-out element is in a retracted position the pull-out slit is covered over its entire length by the pull-out element.

Abstract: A cargo net assembly for a vehicle is described that includes a storage receptacle. The storage receptacle is mounted to the inside of the roof of the vehicle. Pivotable doors may be opened to allow the net to be lowered with a base plate into a use position. The base plate is held in place when deployed by right and left anchors. A latch assembly is provided to latch the doors in their closed position. The latch assembly is opened by a dual cable acting upon dual bell crank cams.

Abstract: A panel having active material based segments, wherein the segments define a hinge location that can be selectively stiffened or folded on demand. The active material based segments include an active material such that activation of the active material by an activation device can allow folding of the panel, can effect self-folding of the panel, or can serve to lock the panel into a fixed position when not activated. In this manner, the panel that can be variously stiffened or folded on demand. Other embodiments include forming the panel of the active material such that the panel can be compacted and stowed upon activation of the active material to change the modulus properties thereof.

Abstract: A sunshade device comprises a sunshade in the form of a roller blind forming part of a roller-blind device, comprising a supporting structure, a shaft for rolling of the sunshade blind, mounted so that it can rotate on the aforesaid supporting structure, and a shape-memory actuator device for causing displacement of the blind from the rolled-up condition to the distended condition.

Abstract: A car sunshade includes: a pair of curtain members each hung to a hanger and operatively driven by a driving device to be upwardly unwound for shielding the windshield of the car from being exposed to sun light along a pair of guiding devices respectively mounted on (or juxtapositioned to) two pillars adjacent to the windshield; or the curtain members being downwardly wound to unveil the windshield of the car, without removing a factory-installed rear-view mirror and without obstructing a driver's head.

Abstract: A passenger compartment visor assembly of a vehicle is disclosed. The visor assembly (10) includes a first member (16) and a second member (18). A support member (28) is positioned between the first member (16) and the second member (18). The first member (16) and the second member (18) are moveable relative to support member (28) between an open position and a closed position. The first member (16) and second member (18) each include an inner surface (20, 24) and an outer surface (22, 26). At least one of the inner surfaces (20, 24) includes at least one integrally-formed storage receptacle (30).

Abstract: A sun visor for a vehicle is provided that can prevent an extendable plate from being removed from the sun visor body. In a sun visor for a vehicle in which an extendable plate (40) is mounted within a sun visor body (20) such that the extendable plate can be drawn out, a removal-preventing member (55) protruding in an inclined configuration is formed on one side surface of the extendable plate. Conversely, a removal preventing recess (52) is formed within the sun visor body (22) for engaging with a tip end portion of the removal-preventing member and for preventing the extendable plate from being removed. A recess wall surface on one side of the removal-preventing recess is formed as an inclined surface (53) for guiding the tip end portion of the removal-preventing member in a wedging direction into the removal-preventing recess.

Abstract: A multifunction, retractable sun shielding apparatus. A retractable screen, a housing configured to receive and contain the retractable screen upon retracting the screen, and a drive mechanism attached to longitudinal edges of the screen, and configured to drive the screen in directions of retraction and deployment. A power switch may be provided that is actuatable by an operator to drive the drive mechanism to deploy or retract the retractable screen. An interlock automatically stops deployment of the retractable screen at a first predefined position where the screen functions as a visor with regard to an adjacent windshield, and a second predefined position where the screen fully covers the adjacent windshield.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sunshield assembly for use in automotive vehicles which prevents potentially damaging solar radiation from entering the interior of the vehicle through a windshield when in motion or parking of the vehicle. The sunshield assembly comprises a mount which is fixedly installed on a windshield of the automotive vehicle, a deployable and retractable sliding unit including a plurality of connector members having the same configuration and adapted to be successively coupled to one another, and a cover configured to be coupled to an outermost one of the connector members, wing members each having a triangular steel liner narrowing toward an outer end thereof, and a coating layer attached to one surface of the steel liner, the coating layer consisting of a paper sheet, and a transparent film bonded to each other, and a holder for fixing the cover.

Abstract: A visor assembly includes first and second coextensive shades formed from opaque material for reflecting sunlight outwardly and away from the vehicle. The shades are sized and shaped to become nested subjacent to a windshield and partially intercalated within a selected portion of the vehicle frame surrounding the windshield. The shades are situated within a slot of the vehicle and each shade includes an inner edge portion that is juxtaposed side-by-side and formed from rubber. First and second pairs of guide tracks are intercalated within the vehicle slot and conjoined to a top surface of the shades. The first pair of guide tracks lays adjacent to the vehicle slot and the second pair of guide tracks lays adjacent to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. A power mechanism selectively positions the shades between retracted and extended positions. The user can extend and retract one shade while another shade remains stationary.