Sunshade device with a curved screen
AssigneeMacauto Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorPaul Lin
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Abstract
A sunshade device includes an elongated housing, a rotary shaft journalled in the housing, and a screen wound around the rotary shaft and movable between retracted and stretched positions. An elongated screen guiding member is mounted in the housing, and has a convex outer wall surface. The intermediate section of the screen extends along and is in contact with the convex outer wall surface such that the screen is curved and has a curvature conforming to that of the convex outer wall surface of the screen guiding member when extended past the screen guiding member. A curved end strip is mounted on the distal end of the screen, and has a curvature conforming to that of the convex outer wall surface of the screen guiding member.
Claims6
A sunshade device for an automobile with an interior lining, comprising:
- an elongated housing adapted to be mounted on the interior lining and having longitudinally opposite end portions;
- a rotary shaft journalled in said housing;
- a screen wound around said rotary shaft and having a connecting end secured to said rotary shaft, a distal end opposite to said connecting end and extending out of said housing, and an intermediate section between said connecting end and said distal end, said screen being movable between a retracted position in which said distal end is disposed adjacent to said housing, and a stretched position in which said distal end is moved away from said housing;
- an elongated screen guiding member mounted in said housing and having a longitudinal axis parallel to said rotary shaft, and a convex outer wall surface, said intermediate section of said screen extending along and being in contact with said convex outer wall surface of said screen guiding member such that said screen is curved and has a curvature conforming to that of said convex outer wall surface of said screen guiding member when extended past said screen guiding member;
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- a curved end strip mounted on said distal end of said screen and having a curvature conforming to that of said convex outer wall surface of said screen guiding member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.