Retractable Car Umbrella

• US 20120001459A1
• Filed: 07/01/2010
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mario Luis Nunez
• Original Assignee: Mario Luis Nunez
• Inventors: Nunez, Mario Luis
• Application Number:
  US12/766,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20120001459A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/219
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0494 Rain covers deployed upon opening door

Abstract

A retractable canvas roof for automobiles meant to provide cover from heavy rain when entering or exiting said automobile. The disclosure also comprising of a sensor to detect heavy rain. A locking mechanism to engage the roof and deploy it when the door is opened and a retracting mechanism to pull on the canvas roof when the door is being closed.

Claims

1. A retractable canvas roof for automobiles, meant to provide cover from heavy rain while getting in an out of said automobile.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising a mechanism to retract canvas roof while the automobile door is being closed.

3. The system of claim 2 further comprising a rod attached to the canvas roof edge and a locking mechanism embedded in the automobile'"'"'s door.

4. The system of claim 3 further comprising a sensor meant to detect heavy rain and to engage the locking mechanism as to allow the automobile'"'"'s opening door to pull on and deploy the canvas roof hence extending it from the main body of the automobile to the opened door.

5. The system of claim 4 further comprising an inverted bell-like structure to focus sound waves generated by drops of rain falling on the automobile'"'"'s roof, a variable capacitor connected to a circuit in which there is also a source of voltage—

battery—

. A transistor in a different circuit which further comprises of an electromagnet.

6. The system of claim 5 further comprising a permanent magnet, a sliding contacts plate made of non conducting material with conducting material embedded inside in a specific fashion as to allow passage of electricity in two different directions. Two ferromagnetic caps at each end of the sliding plate and contacts to connect the circuit powering a plurality of electromagnets around the curved and cylindrical housing structures for curved latches.

7. The system of claim 3 further comprising a plurality of curved and cylindrical housing structures for curved latches meant to deploy when appropriate behind the rod at the edge of canvas roof as to engage the retractable umbrella.

8. The system of claim 2 further comprising a cylindrical structure to house the whole apparatus, a fixed axel that runs along the formerly described structure. At least two more smaller cylindrical structures able to rotate over the fixed axel by means of four sets of bearings, the inner edge of the canvas roof will be embedded in these cylinders. Two torsion springs attached to the fixed axel on one end and the smaller rotating cylinders on the other.

9. The system of claim 8 further comprising at least eight rollers able to rotate against the smaller cylinders previously described providing for stability of the retracting mechanism. These rollers will rotate against axels attached to the cylindrical housing structure by means of metallic plates with elastic recoil properties.