PROTECTION DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE INTERIOR COMPARTMENT

• US 20180050643A1
• Filed: 07/31/2017
• Published: 02/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
• Original Assignee: Goran Bilandzija, Markus Zaiser, Steffen Roschinger
• Inventors: BILANDZIJA, Goran, ZAISER, Markus, RSCHINGER, Steffen
• Granted Patent: US 10,457,219 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/06 Safety nets, transparent sheets, curtains, or the like, e.g. between occupants and glass B60R21/026 , B60R21/11, B60R21/12, B60R21/16 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 5/047 collapsible by rolling-up

Abstract

Protection device for a vehicle interior compartment including a flexible planar structure displaceable between rest and protective positions. On a face end region of the planar structure, a dimensionally stable guiding profile is provided, which is guided in vehicle-fixed guiding tracks. Each side of the guiding profile is associated with a coupling member in operative connection with an entrainer guided in the respective guiding track by a retaining device acting in a force-limited manner. The entrainers are shiftable in mutual synchronization within the guiding tracks by a drive system. The coupling members are in operative connection to the entrainers eccentrically offset in relation to a central longitudinal axis of the guiding profile, and the coupling members are removable from the entrainers in response to external strains of the guiding profile in directional components which are orthogonal in relation to a plane of deployment of the planar structure.

Claims

1. Protection device for a vehicle interior compartment, comprising a flexible planar structure which is displaceable between a rest position and a protective position, and which, on a face end region, is provided with a dimensionally stable guiding profile, which is guided in vehicle-fixed guiding tracks on opposite face sides thereof, wherein each face side of the guiding profile is associated with a coupling member which is in operative connection with an entrainer guided in the respective guiding track by means of a retaining device acting in a force-limited manner, wherein the entrainers are shiftable in mutual synchronization within the guiding tracks by means of a drive system,

wherein

the coupling members are in operative connection to the entrainers eccentrically offset in relation to a central longitudinal axis of the guiding profile, and in that the coupling members are removable from the entrainers in response to external strains of the guiding profile in directional components which are orthogonal in relation to a plane of deployment of the planar structure.

2. Protection device according to claim 1, wherein the retaining device acting in a force-limited manner is associated with the entrainer or the coupling member.

3. Protection device according to claim 1, wherein the coupling members are fixedly disposed on the guiding profile.

4. Protection device according to claim 3, wherein each coupling member has an outer contour with a narrow engagement surface and a wide engagement surface offset in the circumferential direction, wherein the engagement surfaces are alternatively associated with the retaining device acting in a force-limited manner as a function of the rotational position of the coupling member.

5. Protection device according to claim 1, wherein the retaining device acting in a force-limited manner is disposed on the coupling member or on the entrainer to be rotatable about a rotational axis which is oriented in parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the guiding profile.

6. Protection device according to claim 5, wherein the retaining device acting in a force-limited manner includes at least one retaining leg movable in a force-limited manner, which flanks an outer contour of the coupling member or of the entrainer.

7. Protection device according to claim 5, wherein the retaining device acting in a force-limited manner includes at least one unilaterally clamped leaf spring.