Anti-glare device

US4986592A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Gebr. Happich GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Kaiser · Markgröningen, DE
• Lothar Viertel · Wuppertal, DE
• Patrick Welter · Lachambre, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 1990
• Grant date: Jan 22, 1991
• Expiry date: Feb 12, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J1/2088
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An anti-glare device for motor vehicles including two profiled strips extending parallel and each having a respective pin receiving generally dovetail shaped groove extending along its length. A plurality of slats extend between the profiled strips. Each slat includes a respective pin at each opposite end for reception in the profiled strip grooves and the pins being pivotable in the grooves for pivoting all of the slats to respective use and non-use positions. The pins at the end of the slats are shaped to the grooves in the profiled strips, with one pin being on one surface of the slat and the other pin being on the opposite surface of the slat and the grooves being correspondingly oriented. A spacer is positioned in the groove between adjacent pins and the pins are detented on the spacers particularly into the non-use position. A blocking element at the end of the first and last slats keeps them in the grooves.