Height adjustable sun visor for automotive vehicles

• US 4,623,188 A
• Filed: 10/29/1984
• Issued: 11/18/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Becker Group Europe GmbH (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Gebr. Happich GmbH
• Inventors: Nowak, Manfred, Juraschek, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Reeves, Robert B.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Olson, Carol L.
• Application Number:
  US06/665,778
• Time in Patent Office: 750 Days
• Field of Search: 296/97 G, 296/97 R, 296/97 H, 296/97 B, 296/97 K, 296/97 C, 297/410, 160/DIG. 3, 362/135, 362/137, 362/142
• US Class Current: 296/97.5
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 3/0208 combined with auxiliary visor
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 3/0282 specially adapted for a courtesy mirror

Abstract

A sun visor for an automotive vehicle has a generally flat visor body of approximately rectangular contour. It is separated into an upper part and a lower part which are movable along guide pins toward and away from each other effectively lengthening or shortening the height of the visor body. Pins projecting from the lower edge of the upper part are received in pin receivers opening at the upper edge of the lower part, so that the upper part and lower part may be moved together and apart. A tongue-like extension projects from one side surface or from both side surfaces of the upper part down past the corresponding side surface of the lower part, and the extension is of a length so that when the upper and lower parts are separated, the tongue-like extension covers the gap between them.

Claims

1. A sun visor for vehicles having a sun visor body of a flat shape and a substantially rectangular peripheral contour;

the said sun visor body consisting of two flat parts including an upper part and a lower part;

both the upper part and the lower part having an upper longitudinal edge and a lower longitudinal edge, all of said edges extending parallel to each other;

the upper part having in the region of its upper longitudinal edge a support shaft which extends substantially parallel to said upper longitudinal edge and, in the region of an intermediate longitudinal edge, a flat tongue portion extending in the plane of the upper part;

the lower longitudinal edge of the upper part being adjacent to the upper longitudinal edge of the lower part when in an extended position, said tongue portion overlapping a portion of said lower part when in a retracted position;

guide means between the upper part and the lower part making it possible to pull the lower part downwardly away from the upper part and move it upwardly toward the upper part as desired;

the guide means comprising at least one pin which supported by the upper part and extends beyond the lower longitudinal edge of said upper part;

a pin receiver incorporated in said lower part and open on the upper edge of the lower part, the thickness of said pin being less than that of the lower part whereby said pin is receivable within and slidable relative to said lower part.

2. The sun visor of claim 1, wherein a plurality of pins are provided on the upper part, and the plurality of pin receiving openings are provided on the lower part, said pin receiving openings being in close frictional engagement with said pins.

4. The sun visor of claim 1, wherein the mounting shaft extends approximately parallel to the upper edge zone and the visor body being swivelable about the mounting shaft;

the lower part being displaceable in a direction generally perpendicular to the mounting shaft.

5. The sun visor of claim 1, further comprising step-wise, ratchet-like means on the pin and in the pin receiver for permitting step-wise movement of the pin into and out of the pin receiver and for fixing the pin at selected locations along the pin receiver.

6. The sun visor of claim 1, wherein the pin and pin receiver extend generally in the plane of the sun-visor body.

7. The sun visor of claim 1, wherein the pin is defined in the upper part and the pin receiver is defined in the lower part.

8. The sun visor of claim 1, wherein the height of the upper part between the one longitudinal edge zone and the lower edge thereof is substantially shorter than the height of the lower part between the upper edge zone part and the opposite edge zone thereof.

9. The sun visor of claim 8, wherein the sun-visor body is of approximately rectangular contour.

11. The sun visor of claim 9, wherein a tongue like extension is carried by the upper part extends from the upper part toward and over the one side surface of the lower part.

12. The sun visor of claim 11, wherein the outer surface of the lower part over which the tongue-like extension extends has a step-shaped recess which generally corresponds in shape, dimensions and thickness to the shape, dimensions and thickness of the tongue-like extension, whereby when the upper and lower parts are displaced together and the tongue-like extension moves in the recess, the corresponding one side of the sun-visor body in which the tongue-like extension is received is generally flattened.

13. The sun visor of claim 1, wherein the upper part of the visor body is comprised of a plastic injection molding and the lower part of the visor body is comprised of a cushioning body including a reinforcement insert incorporated therein and at least the one pin receiver incorporated therein.

14. The sun visor of claim 12, wherein the upper part of the visor body comprises a mounting receiver for the mounting shaft, the tongue-shaped extension and the pin.

15. The sun visor of claim 14, wherein the upper part further comprises an outer support shaft at the one longitudinal edge zone and spaced along that edge zone from the mounting shaft mounting receiver and being integral with the upper part.

16. The sun visor of claim 1, wherein the upper part includes a recess on one surface thereof, a source of light supported in the recess and means for supplying electric current to the light source, and a lens covering the light source at the recess;

the lower part supporting a mirror thereon at a location relatively near to the source of light and to the upper part.

17. The sun visor of claim 16, wherein the lower part has a recess in which the mirror is supported.

3. A sun visor for vehicles having a sun-visor body of a flat shape and a substantially rectangular peripheral contour;

the said sun visor body comprising two flat parts including an upper part and lower part;

both the upper and the lower part having an upper longitudinal edge and a lower longitudinal edge, all of said edges extending parallel to each other;

the upper part having in the region of its upper longitudinal edge a support shaft which extends substantially parallel to said upper longitudinal edge;

the lower longitudinal edge of the upper part being adjacent to the upper longitudinal edge of the lower part;

the lower part having in the region of an intermediate longitudinal edge thereof a flat tongue portion extending in the plane of the lower part, the tongue portion overlapping a portion of said upper part when said sun visor is in a retracted position;

guide means between the upper part and the lower part making it possible to pull the lower part downwardly away from the upper part and move it upwardly toward the upper part as desired;

the guide means comprising at least one pin which is supported by the lower part and extends beyond the lower longitudinal edge of said upper part;

a pin receiver incorporated in said upper part and open on the lower edge of the upper part, the thickness of said pin being less than that of the upper part whereby said pin is receivable within and slidable relative to said upper part.

10. The sun visor of claim 3, wherein the tongue-like extension is oriented generally parallel to the pin.