Visor for vehicles

• US 6,435,593 B2
• Filed: 04/05/2001
• Issued: 08/20/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Daimay North America Automotive Engineering Technology, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Welter, Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): PAPE, JOSEPH
• Application Number:
  US09/827,261
• Publication Number:
  US 20010050493A1
• Time in Patent Office: 502 Days
• Field of Search: 296/97.11, 296/97.12, 296/97.5, 296/97.9, 296/97.8, 362/492
• US Class Current: 296/97.5
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 3/0239 and pivoting on a support arm bearing members regulating the rotational friction on the support arm B60J3/0265
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/252 Sun visors
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/82 Switches specially adapted for vehicle interior lighting, e.g. switching by tilting the lens
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0264 for control means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0035 Sun visors
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0084 with adjustment by linear movement in their operational position

Abstract

This publication describes a visor for vehicles whose visor body can be folded around an associated axle and can be shifted along said axle. The following is provided here: The visor body is equipped with at least one switching device for the purpose of turning on and turning off an electrical illumination device, a remote-control unit for the purpose of controlling an automatic device for opening and closing garage doors or the like as well as a line comprising several conductor wires where, via line that can be connected with the general electrical system of the vehicle, there is provided a power supply that is permanent and that is independent of the particular position of the visor for at least one switching device that is electrically connected to line as well as with remote-control unit that is likewise electrically connected to line.

Claims

1. A visor for vehicles, comprising:

a visor body having a tube-shaped opening extending along an edge thereof;

a sliding member slidably positioned in said tube-shaped opening;

a hollow pivot axle receiving said sliding member such that said visor body can slide along said hollow axle for adjustment to different sun-blocking positions;

a plurality of conductors for coupling to the vehicle'"'"'s electrical supply, said conductors extending through said hollow axle and including a first conductor coupled to a first switch;

an illuminated vanity mirror having a source of illumination and a sliding cover positioned to actuate said first switch for providing electrical power from said first conductor to said source of illumination; and

a remote control unit mounted to said visor body, wherein said plurality of conductors includes a second conductor coupled to the vehicle'"'"'s electrical supply and to said remote control unit such that said.-remote control unit receives electrical power from the vehicle'"'"'s electrical system regardless of the position of the visor or the sliding cover of said illuminated vanity mirror.

2. The visor as defined in claim 1, wherein said plurality of conductors have a surplus length that corresponds to the maximum shifting distance of said visor body on said axle.

3. The visor as defined in claim 2, wherein the surplus length of line is housed within said tub-shaped opening of said visor body.

4. The visor as defined in claim 3, wherein said conductors, which extend through said axle, are returned within said tube-shaped opening around said axle.

5. The visor as defined in claim 4, wherein said conductors returned in said tube-shaped opening are coiled.

6. The visor as defined in claim 5, wherein said axle, sliding member, conductors, and switches are a preassembled structural subassembly, and further including a frame structure coupled to said visor body to stiffen said visor body.

7. The visor as defined in claim 6, wherein said tube-shaped opening includes plugs that engage the ends of said opening.

8. The visor as defined in claim 1 and further including a second switch coupled to said first conductor and positioned within said tube-shaped opening to engage said axle to be actuated to provide power to said first switch for allowing the actuation of said illuminated vanity mirror only when said visor body is in a predetermined position along said axle.