Rear window shade

US6427751B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• BOS GMBH & CO. KG · DE

Inventors

• Werner Schlecht · Aurich, DE
• Holger Seel · Aidlingen, DE
• Herbert Walter · Großenhain, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 27, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 6, 2002
• Expiry date: Jul 27, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J1/2055
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An automobile rear window shade 9 having a windup roller (15) rotatably seated in a housing (13) in the automobile. The windup roller (15) is pre-stressed in the wind-up direction of the window shade web (17) by a spring (16). Two pivot levers (19, 21), which are pivotably seated on the housing (13), are provided for unrolling the window shade web (17). Couplings (31) between the pivot levers (19, 21) and a gear motor (29) are provided for operating the pivot levers (19, 21). The couplings (31) are flexible over sections of their length, and to prevent kinking of the flexible sections kink-protection structures 44 are provided.