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US 6,634,703 B1Granted
Driving device for a roll-up sunshield of an automobile roof
AssigneeWebasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH
InventorFrancois De Gaillard
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Abstract
A drive device for at least one sunshade intended to darken a surface of a motor vehicle roof. The drive device having a pull element to which the free end of at least one sunshade is attached such that each sunshade can be wound onto a winding roller and also having at least one mounting rod which is mounted with a capacity to swivel with respect to the pull element and to which the free end of at least one sunshade is connected.
Claims5
A drive device for at least one sunshade utilized to darken the surface of a motor vehicle roof, comprising:
- at least one mounting rod extending along and connected to a free end of the at least one sunshade such that the at least one sunshade can be wound onto a winding roller,
- an elongate pull element having two transverse ends adapted to receive a pulling force applied at the same time at each of the transverse ends, and wherein the at least one mounting rod is pivotally mounted on the pull element such that the pull element is capable of swiveling around a swiveling axis which is essentially perpendicular to a plane of the sunshade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.