Vehicle solar radiation shield
OwnerRodolfo Espinosainventor
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Abstract
A solar radiation shield includes a flexible shade assembly mounted on an automotive vehicle sun visor to prevent solar radiation from reaching interior surfaces of the vehicle when the vehicle is left standing in the sun for a protracted time period. The shade assembly includes a rotary spindle and a flexible sheet spirally wound on the spindle so that the sheet can be manually unrolled from the spindle to span the inner surface of the vehicle windshield. During normal operation of the vehicle the flexible sheet is wound onto the spindle so that the sun visor is enabled to perform in conventional fashion.
Claims2
A mechanism for shielding the interior of an automotive vehicle from solar radiation, comprising
- a sun visor located within a vehicle in near proximity to the vehicle windshield, said visor having a front surface adapted to face the windshield;
- and;
- a shade assembly mounted on said visor;
- said shade assembly comprising a spindle, and a flexible sheet spirally wound on said spindle, whereby said flexible sheet can be unrolled from the spindle to extend downwardly below the visor a substantial distance;
- said sun visor comprising a flat plate having an upper edge and a lower edge, and a horizontal suspension rod (16) extending along the upper edge of said plate, whereby said plate can be swung around the rod axis to an inactive position lying against the vehicle roof interior;
- said sun visor further comprising a shade element housing secured to said flat plate to normally enclose said flexible sheet;
- said spindle being rotatably supported in said shade element housing in near proximity to the upper edge of the flat plate so that the unrolled portion of said sheet normally extends downwardly along said plate;
- said shade element housing comprising a flat planar wall spaced from said flat plate to accommodate the unrolled portion of said flexible sheet, and a hollow tube-like section (29) enclosing said spindle;
- said spindle having a spring means (39) normally biasing said spindle to a condition wherein said sheet is in a rolled-up condition on the spindle and the flat plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.