SUN VISOR HOLDER

• US 20150283884A1
• Filed: 10/17/2013
• Published: 10/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Piolax Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Piolax Incorporated
• Inventors: Machida, Kazunori
• Granted Patent: US 9,403,420 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 3/023 Additional support bracket releasably holding the sun visor
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 21/086 the shank of the stud, pin or spigot having elevations, ribs, fins or prongs intended for deformation or tilting predominantly in a direction perpendicular to the direction of insertion
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 5/123 Auxiliary fasteners specially designed for this purpose

Abstract

A sun visor holder includes a main body section to receive the shaft and a leg section to engage with the inner wall of the vehicle. A first engaging piece is formed with the tip side of the leg section as a fulcrum so as to be bendable inward, includes a release section that extends outward along the mounting surface of an inner wall from the free-end side of said first engaging piece, and is configured so that pressing the release section from the surface side of the inner wall causes the first engaging piece to bend inward and engagement with a mounting hole is released.

Claims

1. A sunvisor holder to be mounted on a vehicle inside wall via a mounting hole provided to a vehicle body panel so as to hold a shaft of a sunvisor in an attachable and detachable manner, the sunvisor holder including:

a main body portion disposed on a top side of the vehicle inside wall; and

a leg portion to be inserted into and fixed to the mounting hole of the vehicle body panel,

wherein the main body portion includes;

a base portion to be abutted on the top side of the vehicle inside wall;

a holding portion extending from the base portion and being shaped so as to hold the shaft of the sunvisor in an attachable and detachable manner; and

an insertion portion provided to the holding portion so as to receive the shaft of the sunvisor,

wherein the leg portion includes;

a first engaging piece disposed on a side opposite to the insertion portion of the main body portion so as to engage with the mounting hole; and

at least one second engaging piece disposed at a position different from the first engaging piece so as to engage with the mounting hole in a collaborative manner with the first engaging piece,

wherein the first engaging piece is formed via a notch provided to a peripheral wall of the base portion so as to be bendable inward with a distal end of the leg portion as a pivot point, includes a releasing portion extending outward more than the base portion along a mounting surface of the vehicle inside wall from a free end of the first engaging piece, and disposed only on the side opposite to the insertion portion of the main body portion,

wherein, when the shaft of the sunvisor is inserted into the holding portion through the insertion portion, the releasing portion abuts on the top side of the vehicle inside wall to thereby receive a pushing force exerted from the shaft of the sunvisor, and

wherein, when the releasing portion is pressed from the top side of the vehicle inside wall, the first engaging piece is bent inward to release an engagement of the first engaging piece with the mounting hole.

2. The sunvisor holder according to claim 1,

wherein a length of the releasing portion is set so as to protrude from an outer peripheral surface of the base portion in a state where the releasing portion is pressed and the engagement of the first engaging piece with the mounting hole is released.

3. The sunvisor holder according to claim 1,

wherein the leg portion includes a frame-shaped wall defining an interior space, and the base portion defines a cavity communicating with the interior space,

wherein the first engaging piece and the releasing portion are provided via the notch communicating with the interior space of the frame-shaped wall and the cavity of the base portion, and

wherein, when the releasing portion is pressed, the first engaging piece is pushed into the interior space of the frame-shaped wall and the cavity of the base portion.

4. The sunvisor holder according to claim 1,

wherein the vehicle inside wall includes a trim member including an insertion hole and disposed on a top side of the vehicle body panel,

wherein the leg portion includes a temporary holding piece provided to engage with a back-side peripheral edge of the insertion hole of the trim member, and

wherein, when the temporary holding piece engages with the back-side peripheral edge of the insertion hole, the releasing portion abuts on a top side of the trim member.