| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 296970500 | Combined or convertible | 23 |
| 20080203755 | INTERIOR TRIM ELEMENT - An interior trim element provided with a display device and a method for producing such an element is disclosed. The interior trim element includes a substrate, an intermediate layer of foam material and a covering skin. It integrates the display device by means of backlighting a facing, the projection of which is shown on a display area of the covering skin. The interior trim element further includes a light box of the display device at least partly fitted into a corresponding receiving mount arranged in the substrate and the layer of intermediate material and extending up to the internal surface of the relevant display area of the skin, and in that a sheet of semi-rigid material is attached, directly or with the interposition of the facing, onto the internal face of the display area. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080217950 | Visor Assembly Incorporating an Electronic Control Module - A visor assembly configured for use in a passenger compartment of a vehicle includes a first wall defining an inner surface and an outer surface including a channel formed therein and a bezel provided on the inner surface of the first wall cooperating with the channel. A second wall cooperates with the first wall to form a visor housing and a cavity defined therein. One or more openings are formed through the second wall. An electronic control module is disposed in the visor housing and includes a printed circuit board including one or more switches positioned in operative communication with one or more buttons extending at least partially through the second wall in the visor housing. The module includes a transmitter for transmitting a wireless control signal to control one or more remote devices when the one or more buttons are actuated by a user. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090218845 | VISOR AND METHOD OF MAKING A VISOR - A visor assembly, comprises a first core piece having an aperture and a second core piece coupled to the first core piece. A reflective film is positioned in a tensioned state between the first core piece and the second core piece such that a first portion of the reflective film is visible through the aperture. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20100090494 | VISOR - A visor is mounted to a vehicle such that it pivots from a pocket in a vehicle headliner adjacent the windshield downwardly away from the windshield from the stored position to a use position. A mounting bracket coupled to the visor and mounting clip coupled to the vehicle cooperate to hold the visor in a stored position and allow its pivoting to a lowered use position and movement in connection with a pivot rod assembly on the opposite end of the visor to a side window position. The pivot rod assembly includes a cam mechanism for lowering the visor as it pivots from the front window position to the side window position. A push-push spring-loaded pivoted extender panel can be deployed from an edge of the visor to increase sun blocking. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100096878 | Sliding visor - A sun visor for use in a vehicle is disclosed. The sun visor includes a first and second visor body shell. The shells define a retaining channel for a slider on a visor pivot rod and may be engaged and enclosed about the slider. It is also contemplated that the sun visor has a combination slider and detent slidably supported in channels molded into the first and second visor shells. A support arm may be provided and is readily offset from the combination slider and detent and is slidable relative thereto. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100117395 | Hybrid visor - A hybrid visor for use in a vehicle is disclosed. The visor includes an expanded polypropylene body and a partial clamshell engaging the body along a single longitudinal length of the body and along a single transverse length of the body. The visor also comprises a pivot rod arranged within the clamshell and a cover material arranged over the body and the clamshell. The hybrid visor provides a light weight, low cost recyclable visor that is capable of being designed into any number of configurations all while providing the same robustness and stiffness of heavier and more costly visors. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100225139 | Portable automobile (GPS) attachment cradle - A portable GPS docking device that clamps onto an automobile Sun Visor, to provide a driver a direct heads up view on the road way. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100264684 | VISOR MADE FROM A VEHICLE PANEL MATERIAL | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110018304 | SYSTEM FOR INCREASING A FIELD OF VIEW OF A USER OF A VEHICLE - Embodiments described herein provide a system for increasing a field of view of a substantially stationary user of a vehicle having a ground facing surface. In one embodiment, the system comprises one side of the field of view defined by a substantially level gaze of the substantially stationary user. A windshield is disposed at a nose of the vehicle. A visor is disposed on the vehicle. The visor is positioned such that the windshield is between the ground facing surface of the vehicle and the visor. The visor has a ground facing surface. A vehicle mirror is disposed on the ground facing surface of the visor. A line of sight extends from the vehicle mirror to ground. A second side of the field of view is defined by the line of sight. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110109117 | PIVOTED VISOR ASSEMBLY - A visor system is mounted to a vehicle such that it pivots from a pocket in a vehicle headliner adjacent the windshield downwardly away from the windshield from a stored position to a use position. The system includes a primary visor which remains in the front windshield position and an auxiliary visor panel pivotally mounted with respect to said primary visor for pivoting to a side window position regardless of the position of the primary visor. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110227361 | AUTOMOBILE AND SUN VISOR THEREOF - A sun visor includes a main body, a television module, a display and a solar panel. The television module is located in the main body to receive television signals and reproduce audio and video. The display is positioned on a first side of the main body to display video based on the video signals. The solar panel is positioned on a second side of the sun visor boy to receive and convert sun light into electric energy to supply power to the television module and the display. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110260491 | VEHICLE SUN VISOR - A vehicle sun visor includes: a sun visor body; a support shaft that supports the sun visor body; a mounting bracket that attaches the support shaft to a vehicle; a pair of first conductive element and second conductive element that are provided at a shaft end of the support shaft adjacent to the mounting bracket and inside the support shaft; a divider that is interposed between first ends; and a pair of terminals that supply electric power to the first ends. A gap is formed between the divider and at least one of the first ends. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20120043781 | BALLISTIC PROTECTION SUN VISOR APPARATUS - A ballistic visor that may act as a sun visor or be installed on an existing sub visor and that provides protection against ballistic rounds is described. The ballistic visor includes a plurality of panels. Each panel is substantially the size of a vehicle windshield sun visor and includes an outer layer of ballistic fabric that permits ballistic rounds to penetrate the ballistic visor and prevents ballistic rounds or ballistic round fragments from exiting the ballistic visor and an inner core of semi-rigid or rigid material surrounded by the outer layer of ballistic fabric and capable of stopping ballistic rounds. The ballistic panel further includes a connection between two of the plurality of panels that enables the ballistic visor to be expanded so that one of the two connected panels hangs below the other of the two connected panels. The connected ends of the two connected panels overlap. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120080903 | MOLDED VANITY ASSEMBLY AND METHOD - A vanity mirror and light assembly is provided for use on a vehicle visor. The vanity assembly includes a clear frame molded to a reflective film to define a reflector portion and a partially transmissive portion. The assembly also includes a lighting device located behind the partially transmissive portion of the reflective film to provide a vanity light passing through the partially transmissive portion. A method of forming the vanity assembly in a mold is also provided. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120200110 | Psychological sun visor cover - A sun visor cover is comprised of a first material having a first color and an opening, thus forming a pocket which may be placed over a sun visor. While not entirely necessary, it may be advantageous that this first color be one that contrasts well with the color orange. A first alertness field comprising the color orange is placed on or incorporated into the first material, forming a highly contrasting combination. The alertness field could be another piece of fabric, a reflective piece of material, a luminescent piece of material, or an illuminated material such as a light bulb, a light strip, a light emitting diode (LEDs), or a collection of bulbs or LEDs. Additional alertness fields may be placed on the same side of the sun visor cover as the first alertness field and may also be placed on the opposite side of the sun visor cover. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120326465 | SUNSHADE ASSEMBLY WITH LIGHT - A sunshade assembly for illuminating an underhood area of a vehicle having an electrical system includes an outer wall forming a sun-blocking surface. The outer wall is mounted to the vehicle. At least one work light is mounted to the outer wall. The at least one work light is constructed and positioned such that the light emitted from the at least one work light is directed at the underhood area to illuminate the underhood area. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130069388 | Sliding visor - A sliding sun visor for use in a vehicle is disclosed. The sun visor includes a first and second visor body shell. At least one of the shells having a retaining channel for engaging and retaining a floating carrier on a visor pivot rod. It is also contemplated that the sun visor may have a snap in vanity system and rotating pin on a D-ring associated therewith. The visor body also may include a wire routing option to route a wire from the electrical system of a vehicle to a light bulb in a vanity. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130187402 | RETRACTABLE SUN VISOR AND CENTRAL OVERHEAD CONSOLE SYSTEM FOR USE WITH PANORAMIC WINDSCREEN - The present invention provides an assembly for controllable viewing angle for a vehicle. The system further provides configurable independent sunlight blocking or completely unobstructed options for the occupants in the vehicle having a panoramic view windscreen. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130320699 | VEHICLE SUN VISOR - A vehicle sun visor includes a sun visor body, a support shaft mounted on a ceiling surface of a vehicle cabin and configured to support the sun visor body at a turning center position of the sun visor body such that the sun visor body is turnable between a storage position at which the sun visor body is oriented along the ceiling surface of the vehicle cabin and a use position at which the sun visor body is able to block light, a damper configured to apply braking force at the time when the sun visor body turns, and a slide mechanism configured to hold the sun visor body such that the sun visor body is slidable in an axial direction of the support shaft with respect to the support shaft. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140028047 | SLIDING VISOR - A sliding sun visor for use in a vehicle is disclosed. The sun visor includes a first and second visor body shell. At least one of the shells having a retaining channel for engaging and retaining a floating carrier on a visor pivot rod. It is also contemplated that the sun visor may have a snap in vanity system and rotating pin on a D-ring associated therewith. The visor body also may include a wire routing option to route a wire from the electrical system of a vehicle to a light bulb in a vanity. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20150048643 | EFFICIENT HOLDER FOR MOBILE DEVICES - One disclosed aspect of the embodiments is an apparatus to hold a mobile device in a vehicle. A sleeve is stretchable to fit longitudinally along a sun visor of a vehicle and having front and back surfaces. The front surface has a vent structure. A first strap is transversely attached on the front surface at a first side of the vent structure to hold a first end of a first device. A second strap is transversely attached on the front surface at a second side of the vent structure to adjustably hold a second end of the first device. The second side is opposite to the first side across the vent structure. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150084364 | DISPLAY DEVICE HOLDER APPARATUS FOR SUN VISOR - A display device holder apparatus for a sun visor may include a slide bracket slidably coupled to the sun visor in order to enable a state in which it may be received in the sun visor and a state in which it may be drawn forwardly from the sun visor, and a plurality of holders provided in the slide bracket, so as to be elastically rotatable with respect to the slide bracket and fixing a display device so that the display device may be held in the slide bracket. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150291098 | CONVERTIBLE VANITY MIRROR ASSEMBLY - In a convertible mirror assembly for a vehicle visor, a flexible mirror is operably coupled to a housing and is operable between first and second display states. A slider mechanism is slidably supported on the housing and operably coupled to the flexible mirror. The slider mechanism is adapted to move along the housing between retracted and extended positions, whereby the flexible mirror is in the first display state when the slider mechanism is in the retracted position, and in the second display state when the slider mechanism is in the extended position. When moved to the extended position, the slider mechanism urges the flexible mirror to an outwardly curved or convex configuration to define a conversation mirror configuration. | 10-15-2015 |
