Rear-window roller blind without residual open gap
AssigneeBOS GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsAndreas Thumm, Fekadu Kebede
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Abstract
A rear window roller blind for motor vehicles which has a pull rod assembly with a contoured plate. The contoured plate is used to close the segmented residual gap between the straight pull rod assembly and the curved top edge of the rear window. In order for the contoured plate to lie flush with a rear shelf below the rear window when the roller blind is in a retracted position, it is pivotable about a longitudinal axis of the pull rod assembly during movement of the pull rod between its retracted and extended positions. Such rotational movement is controlled by the contour of guide rails within which the pull rod is guided during such pull out movement.
Claims26
A roller blind assembly (21) for a window (9, 10) in a motor vehicle (1) having a curved top window edge (8) and a roller blind pullout slot (14) adjacent a bottom window edge comprising:
- a windup shaft (22) supported for rotational movement below said pullout slot (14),
- a roller blind (19) connected at one end to said windup shaft (22);
- a pull rod assembly (23) fixed to an end of the roller blind (22) opposite the windup shaft (19) for pulling the roller blind (19) out through said pullout slot (14);
- said pull rod assembly (23) being moveable along a pull out path from a rest position with the roller blind (19) in a substantially wound condition about said windup shaft (22) and a functional position in which the roller blind (19) is pulled out from said windup shaft (22) in front of said window;
- a drive (44) for moving said pull rod assembly (23) between said rest and functional positions,
- at least one guide member (18) for guiding movement of the pull rod assembly (23) along the pullout path between said rest and functional positions and which pivots the pull rod assembly about an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the pull rod assembly (23) such that the pull rod assembly is disposed in a first pivoted position when in said rest position and in a second pivoted position different from said first pivoted position when in said functional position, and
- said pull rod assembly (23) including a rectilinear rod member to which said opposite end of said roller blind is affixed and a contoured plate (24), said contoured plate having a curved edge (25) that is positionable relative to a top curved window edge (8) when said pull rod assembly (23) is in said functional position such that the contoured plate (24) substantially closes any light gap between the pull rod assembly (23) and the top window edge (8) when the pull rod assembly is in said functional position.
A motor vehicle comprising:
- a motor vehicle body, a window (9,10) mounted in the motor vehicle body having a curved top edge, a panel adjacent a bottom edge of the window formed with a roller blind pull out slot (14), a roller blind assembly (21) including a windup shaft (22) supported for rotational movement below said pull out slot (14),
- a roller blind (19) connected at one end to said windup shaft (22);
- a pull rod assembly (23) fixed to an end of the roller blind (22) opposite the windup shaft (19) for pulling the roller blind (19) out through said pullout slot (14);
- said pull rod assembly (23) being moveable along a pull out path (19) from a rest position with the roller blind in a substantially wound condition about said windup shaft (22) and a functional position in which the roller blind (19) is pulled out from said windup shaft (22) in front of said window;
- a drive (44) for moving said pull rod assembly (23) between said rest and functional positions,
- guide members (18) which guide movement of the pull rod assembly (23) along the pullout path between said rest and functional positions and which pivots the pull rod assembly about an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the pull rod assembly such that the pull rod assembly is disposed in a first pivoted position when in said rest position and in a second pivoted position different from said first pivoted position when in said functional position, and
- said pull rod assembly (23) including a rectilinear rod member to which said opposite end of said roller blind is affixed and a contoured plate (24), said contoured plate having a curved edge (25) that is positionable relative to a top curved window edge (8) when said pull rod assembly (23) is in said functional position such that the contoured plate (24) substantially closes any light gap between the pull rod assembly (23) and the top window edge (8) when the pull rod assembly is in said functional position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.