Sunshade assembly of motor vehicle
AssigneeOhi Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaharu Matsumoto, Hisato Tatsumi
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Abstract
A sunshade assembly for use with a sun roof construction of a motor vehicle is disclosed, which comprises two chain units each including first and second groups of guided pieces and a plurality of links pivotally connected to the first and second groups of guided pieces in a zig-zag manner, two guide rails each having at its inboard side upper and lower guide grooves for slidably receiving therein the first and second groups of guided pieces respectively, a plurality of supporting rods each extending between one guided piece of the first group associated with one guide rail and another guided piece of the first group associated with the other guide rail, and a shading cloth having thereon a plurality of supported portions which are supported by the supporting rods respectively.
Claims21
A sunshade assembly comprising a shading cloth and means for preventing creasing and wrinkling of said shading cloth, said means for preventing creasing and wrinkling of said shading cloth comprising:
- a pair of guide rails, each having longitudinally extending upper and lower guide grooves formed in an inner side thereof, said guide rails extending in parallel having the respective inner sides thereof faced toward each other;
- a first group of guided pieces movably received in said upper guide groove of each guide rail;
- a second group of guided pieces movably received in said lower guide groove of each guide rail;
- a plurality of links each having one end pivotally connected to one guided piece of the first group and the other end pivotally connected to one guided piece of the second group, so that said guided pieces of the first and second groups and said links constitute a chain unit for each guide rail;
- a first group of supporting rods each extending between one guided piece of the first group associated with one guide rail and another guided piece of the first group associated with the other guide rail;
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- said shading cloth having first supported portions which are supported by said supporting rods respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.