Sun visor for motor vehicles

US5498056A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Gebr. Happich GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Lothar Viertel · Wuppertal, DE
• Patrick Welter · Lachambre, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 1, 1994
• Grant date: Mar 12, 1996
• Expiry date: Nov 1, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60Q3/252
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A sun visor has a sun visor body and an L-shaped visor body support shaft. A first arm of the shaft is received in a bearing bracket. A second arm of the shaft extends along a first longitudinal edge of the visor body. The first longitudinal edge of the body has a step shaped offset defining a free space at the end thereof toward the first support shaft arm. The support shaft second arm is perpendicular to the first arm and extending across the free space. The second arm has a free end region which extends into a mounting hole defined in the visor body and toward one longitudinal end. In the free space defined by the step shaped offset and into the first longitudinal edge of the visor body, an illuminating device is supported by a housing attached to the second shaft arm. The second shaft arm extends across the free space and into the mounting hole in the visor body.