Foil covering layer for sun visor

US4411467A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Gebr. Happich GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Kurt Cziptschirsch · Wuppertal, DE
• Klaus Kaiser · Markgröningen, DE
• Gerhard Zwirner · Haan, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 4, 1981
• Grant date: Oct 25, 1983
• Expiry date: Feb 4, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/233
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The disclosure concerns a sun visor for an automotive vehicle wherein the foamed body of the sun visor is surrounded by a covering layer of flexible, foil material. The sun visor body has a recess defined in it for holding a mirror or the housing that supports the mirror. The section of the covering layer overlapping the recess is more expansible than the remainder of the covering layer. To make this section more expansible, it is punched with holes defining a lattice of the material, and various shapes holes are disclosed.