Vehicle sun visor
AssigneeKasai Kogyo Co., Ltd.
InventorsTeruo Kawasaki, Yoshiaki Kazama, Tomoko Furuhashi
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Abstract
A sun visor to be used in a vehicle has a sun visor body with an opening; at least one punched plate having a front side and a back side and a plurality of holes opened between the front side and the back side, which is fitted in the opening of the sun visor body; and at least one light-attenuation plate for attenuating incident light horizontally passing through the holes of the punched plate, which is placed on at least one of the front and back sides of the punched plate. Therefore, the vehicle can be operated safely under the incident morning or evening sunlight.
Claims16
A vehicle sun visor comprising:
- a sun visor body having an opening;
- a punched plate having a plurality of holes opened therethrough, which is placed in the opening of the sun visor body;
- and
- a light-attenuation plate for attenuating incident light passing through the holes of the punched plate, which is placed on at least one of a front side and a back side of the punched plate,
- wherein at least one of said plurality of holes is configured to substantially prevent the passage of incident light that enters said at least one of said plurality of holes with respect to an axis of said at least one of said plurality of holes at any angle a greater than a critical angle.
A vehicle sun visor comprising:
- a sun visor body having an opening;
- a punched plate having a plurality of holes opened therethrough, which is placed in the opening of the sun visor body;
- and
- a light-attenuation plate for attenuating incident light passing through the holes of the punched plate, which is placed on at least one of a front side and a back side of the punched plate,
- wherein said visor is configured to substantially prevent the passage of incident light that enters said visor with respect to an axis normal to a surface of said visor at any angle α greater than a critical angle, and
- wherein said critical angle is substantially equal to or less than 38.7°.
A vehicle sun visor comprising:
- a sun visor body having an opening;
- at least two punched plates, each having a plurality of holes opened therethrough, placed in the opening of the sun visor body;
- a light-attenuation plate for attenuating incident light passing through the holes of the punched plates, which is placed on at least one side of at least one of the punched plates;
- and
- a sliding member,
- wherein at least one of the punched plates is provided as a movable punched plate whose position can be shifted by the sliding member, and
- wherein a movement of the movable punched plate with respect to the sun visor is limited.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.