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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8167021 | Lever roll-up shade with stop damper A lever actuated roll-up shade assembly for motor vehicle windows having a stop brake for slowing down movement of actuating levers of the roll-up shade assembly during movement into a position corresponding to the retracted position of the roller shade so as to pre... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8109318 | Methods of deploying a cover utilizing active material and an external heat source Methods of deploying and stowing a cover coupled to an actuator comprising active material, includes the steps of heating the material with an external heat source, so as to cause a change in physical property and deploying the cover due to the change, and preferabl... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8033313 | Side window roller blind with insertion aid A side window roller blind is provided. The roller blind includes a support rod having a free end connected to a tension bar. In order to prevent rattling noises, the ends of the tension bar are provided with rollers that contact the window pane such that the suppor... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028738 | Side panel with integrated window shade guide rail A window roller blind for motor vehicles having a guide rail arrangement that also forms an interior panel of the vehicle. The interior panel has a gap that forms a guide groove for guiding movement of the window blind between open and closed positions of the vehicl... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7971626 | Protective device for a vehicle interior A protective device for a vehicle interior having a flexible sheetlike structure provided on opposite sides with side edge regions, a winding shaft rotatably mounted and on which the sheetlike structure is held such that it can be wound up and unwound, and dimension... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7967052 | Vehicle roof blind assembly A vehicle roof blind assembly includes a guide rail having upper and lower slide grooves, a pull rod, and a slide member having a slide portion extending slidably into the upper slide groove. A fabric blind has a transverse end portion connected to the pull rod, and... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7934533 | Roller blind with centering by stops A window shade for motor vehicles having a shade of approximately trapezoidal shape. An extension profile or pull rod of the shade, the ends of which are guided in guide rails, is arranged on the shortest transverse edge of the shade. In order to compensate for a va... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7896058 | Side window roller blind with hinged pull rod and rectangular support rod A window roller blind that has a shade, the free end of which is connected to a pull rod. In order to guide movement of the pull rod during extension and retraction of the roller blind, a support rod is connected to pull rod by means of articulated connection. ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7896057 | Roller blind for complete shading of a motor vehicle window A roller blind for motor vehicle windows which includes a roller blind body movable between a retracted stored posited and an extended position over the window with which it is used. The roller blind body has a width greater than at least portions of the rear window... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7874343 | Roller blind with noiseless flat spiral spring drive A spring motor having a pot shaped housing in which a flat spiral spring is housed. The flat spiral spring is connected at one outer end to the pot-shaped housing while the inner end is coupled to a shaft or axle. To prevent radial vibrations of individual spring la... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7857035 | Sun shade apparatus A sun shade apparatus of the present invention has a curtain capable of shielding a window portion of a door. The curtain can be stretched between a shielding state and an open state on the window portion. The apparatus has a motor, a cable provided so as to be capa... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7828041 | Manually activated roll-up window shade A roll-up sunroof shade is provided that has two guide rails in addition to the tensioned shade element. A push element runs in each guide rail. Each push element is driven with a positive fit via a separate drive gear. For manual activation of the shade element, th... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7828040 | Sun shade apparatus A sun shade apparatus of the present invention having a cable provided so as to be capable of being forced out or drawn in, a connector connecting the cable and a curtain to each other, a guide rail provided on a window portion, and a slide member attached to the cu... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7828039 | Guideless window shade with improved sliders A window shade arrangement has holding levers in order to draw the window shade material from the wind-up roller shaft and to hold it in a drawn out or extended position. The holding levers include hinged sliding elements that slide in associated guide grooves in th... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7814958 | Roll-up sunroof shade A roll-up sunroof shade is provided that includes two guide rails running along the sides of the shade sheet. The shade sheet is cut wider than corresponds to the clear distance between the guide rails. While being pulled out, the shade sheet is forced by an appropr... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7793702 | Guide system for a roller blind of a sliding roof system A guide system for a roller blind of a sliding roof system has a guide rail and a slider that is fixed on the roller blind. The slider is accommodated in the guide rail such that the slider is displaceable in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle and carries the rol... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7762306 | Roll-up shade drive with spring motor and reduced drive force A roll-up window shade for motor vehicle windows is provided that has guide rails running at the side of the extended shade element. A linear push element is provided for each guide rail. Each push element is driven by a separate gear. Therefore, complicated guide t... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7717157 | Sun shade apparatus A sun shade apparatus of the present invention has a pair of cables provided so as to be movable in outer tubes. A curtain has its opposite ends connected to ends of each cable and is stretched with the movement of the cables. At least one of the outer tubes is divi... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7717158 | Side window roll-up shade with cable drive A side window roll-up shade which has a pull rod attached to a movable edge of a roll-up shade material. The pull rod is carried by two support rods which are guided so that they can move vertically within the door body. At the bottom end of each support rod, a cabl... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7661455 | Window shade for motor vehicles with simplified guide rail coupling A window shade for motor vehicles is provided that includes a base unit in which the windup shaft is rotatably supported. The base unit is also provided with coupling devices, wherein guide tubes for thrust elements originate at these coupling devices and lead to a ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7503374 | Sunshade actuation device A winder is provided near a quarter window of a rear door. A shade member is drawably mounted about the winder. A connecting piece is connected to a drawing arm and mounted to the rear portion of the shade member. A shoe is mounted to a bottom end of the drawing arm... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7493933 | Retractable window shade A retractable window shade comprises at least one spool assembly and at least one track assembly. The spool assembly includes a spool having film windable thereupon with opposing film edges. The film edges have a series of spaced perforations extending therealong. T... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7413000 | Sun screen device A sun screen device includes a pair of slide rails, a screen body, and a pair of rods. Each of the slide rails has an end portion. The screen body has lateral ends, and an operating end that interconnects the lateral ends of the screen body and that is movable along... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7401840 | Window shade A window shade is stored on a storage roller mounted beneath a vehicle window opening. A trim panel has a slot through which the window shade may be unwound and raised to a use position shading the window. One or more hooks are attached to the window shade to engage... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7396067 | Rear-window roller blind without residual open gap A rear window roller blind for motor vehicles which has a pull rod assembly with a contoured plate. The contoured plate is used to close the segmented residual gap between the straight pull rod assembly and the curved top edge of the rear window. In order for the co... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7364215 | Sunshade device for rear door window of automobile In a sunshade device for the rear door window of an automobile both ends of a sunshade screen rod, to which an end of the sunshade screen wound on the winding roll biased by an elastic member in a frame is fastened, are raised and lowered by a telescopic bar and an ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7347246 | Side window shade with contour part A side window shade for triangular windows contains a strip-shaped shade that is provided with a contour part on its pointed end. The contour part is arranged on a slide in a pivoted fashion and is able to align itself in accordance with the winding shaft when the s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337567 | Retractable banner stand with curvature means A retractable banner stand has a banner, a support base, a mast, a retracting mechanism, and a means for imparting a curvature in the horizontal plane on the banner. Typically a cross member will be provided for supporting the banner in an extended upright position ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338100 | Universal bumper guard The present invention relates to as a universal bumper guard including a retractable cover, a cover housing that contains the retractable cover, a frame holding the cover housing, connection devices for connecting the cover housing of the universal bumper guard to a... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7316440 | Protective device for a luggage area of a motor vehicle A protective device for a motor vehicle luggage area has a flexible flat article, which is movably mounted between a compact, deposited protection position and at least one extracted protection position. There are at least two parallel, spaced functional shafts to w... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316443 | Rear window roller blind with complete split coverage by the pull-out element A rear-window roller blind assembly for motor vehicles in which the roller blind is movable out of a pull-out slit to an extended position through movement of a pull-out element on a free edge thereof. The pull-out element includes a center piece and relatively mova... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314079 | Sunshade system having blind sheet A rotatable rod includes a plurality of cylindrical center rods and a plurality of joints. Each joint connects between corresponding two of the plurality of center rods. Each of opposed ends of each center rod has at least one engaging projection, which projects fro... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311112 | Collapsible, portable, easily deployed car cover The present invention is a portable collapsible car cover assembly which includes: (a) a collapsible hollow housing with exit sheet exit apertures, which housing has a compact collapsed configuration and an extended deployed configuration; (b) a base which includes ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7293888 | Rearview mirror assembly with utility functions An interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a housing having a mirror casing and a support for mounting said mirror casing to a vehicle. The rearview mirror assembly further includes a retractable cord for use by an occupant of the vehicle for coupli... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7255382 | Easy-to-use safety net device The invention relates to a safety net device with a housing, in which a winding shaft is rotationally mounted. The winding shaft is pretensioned by a spring motor in the direction of winding of a safety net which is fixed to the winding shaft. The other edge of the ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252484 | Camouflaged inflation device A camouflaged inflation device for inflating pool toys and rafts includes a housing that includes a bottom wall, a top wall and a peripheral wall that is attached to and extends downwardly from the top wall. The peripheral wall has a bottom edge having a peripheral ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7252321 | Electric car sunshade A car sunshade includes: a pair of curtain members each hung to a hanger and operatively driven by a driving device to be upwardly unwound for shielding the windshield of the car from being exposed to sun light along a pair of guiding devices respectively mounted on... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7243699 | Window shade with conical winding shaft A window shade assembly for motor vehicles is provided. The window shade assembly includes a window shade element that is cut into a trapezoidal shape in order to be optimally adapted to the shape of the corresponding window. The winding shaft for this window shade ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7232176 | All vision The all vision visor is an extendable retractable polarized sun visor that utilizing a prism and light source that is rotative relative to a housing slot whereby the user can vary the color wavelength projected into the sun visor that refracts incoming sun rays, whi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7228884 | Rear window car curtain A rear window car curtain comprises a base, fixed on a car body; a winding device, having a main shaft, mounted on the base, a curtain and a leading rod; a driving device with an output shaft; a threaded shaft, linked to the output shaft; left and right driving rods... | 06/12/2007 |
