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US 7,458,628 B2Granted
Vehicle sun visors with support rods
AssigneesKyowa Sangyo Co., Ltd., Shinwa Seiko Co., Ltd.
InventorHidekazu Torii
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Abstract
A vehicle sun visor including a visor body and a support rod disposed on the visor body. The support rod is adapted to engage a support hook mounted to a vehicle cabin ceiling. The support rod includes a core rod member mounted on the visor body and an outer sleeve disposed on the outer peripheral side of the core rod member. The outer sleeve includes first and second semi-circular cylindrical sleeve halves each having at least one resilient engaging portion formed integrally therewith. The resilient engaging portions resiliently engage an outer peripheral surface of the core rod member. The semi-circular cylindrical sleeve halves may have similar configurations with each other.
Claims18
A vehicle sun visor comprising:
- a visor body;
- and
- a support rod disposed on the visor body and arranged and constructed to engage a support hook mounted to a vehicle cabin ceiling;
- wherein the support rod comprises;
- a core rod member having a central axis, wherein the core rod member is mounted on the visor body;
- and
- an outer sleeve disposed on the outer peripheral side of the core rod member and including a first semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half and a second semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half;
- wherein each semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half has at least one resilient engaging portion formed integrally therewith and arranged and constructed to resiliently engage with an outer peripheral surface of the core rod member;
- and
- wherein the at least one resilient engaging portion of the first semi-circular sleeve half and the at least one resilient engaging portion of the second semi-circular sleeve half engage with the outer peripheral surface of the core rod member independently of each other;
- wherein each resilient engaging portion has a first engaging claw and a second engaging claw having terminal ends spaced apart from each other;
- wherein each of the first and second engaging claws is resiliently deformed open and engaged with the outer peripheral surface of the core rod member;
- wherein each semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half is molded from resin;
- and
- wherein the first semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half has the same configuration as the second semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half;
- wherein each of the first and second engaging claws of each resilient engaging portion has an axial thickness, and wherein the first and the second engaging claws of each resilient engaging portion are axially offset from each other relative to the central axis by a distance corresponding to the axial thickness of the first and second engaging claws.
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A vehicle sun visor comprising:
- a visor body;
- and
- a support rod arranged and constructed to engage a support hook mounted to a vehicle cabin ceiling, so that the visor body is supported by the support hook via the support rod;
- wherein the support rod comprises:
- a core rod member having an outer peripheral surface and mounted to the visor body;
- and
- an outer sleeve having a central axis and fitted onto the outer peripheral surface of the core rod member and including a first semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half and a second semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half;
- wherein each of the first and second semi-circular cylindrical sleeve halves comprises a plurality of resilient engaging portion formed integrally therewith;
- and
- wherein each of the resilient engaging portions has a first engaging claw and a second engaging claw arranged and constructed to resiliently clamp the outer peripheral surface of the core rod member from opposing sides with respect to substantially the diametrical direction of the core rod member;
- wherein the first and second engaging claws of the resilient engaging portions of the first semi-circular sleeve half and the first and second engaging claws of the resilient engaging portions of the second semi-circular sleeve half resiliently clamp the outer peripheral surface of the core rod member independently of each other;
- wherein the first engaging claw of the first semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half is positioned to axially oppose the first engaging claw of the second semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half in an axial direction parallel to the central axis, and the second engaging claw of the first semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half is positioned to axially oppose the second engaging claw of the second semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half in an axial direction parallel to the central axis.
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A vehicle sun visor comprising a visor body and a support rod arranged and constructed to engage a support hook mounted to a vehicle cabin ceiling, wherein the support rod comprises:
- a core rod member having a central axis, wherein the core rod member is mounted to the visor body;
- and
- an outer sleeve comprising:
- two semi-circular cylindrical sleeve halves, wherein each semi-circular cylindrical sleeve half comprises two or more resilient engaging portions;
- wherein each of the resilient engaging portions comprises:
- a first engaging claw, and
- a second engaging claw;
- wherein each of the semi-circular cylindrical sleeve halves is attached to the core rod member via the at least one resilient engaging portion;
- wherein the semi-circular sleeve halves are coupled to the core rod member independently of each other;
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- wherein a first of the resilient engaging portions of a first of the semi-circular sleeve halves axially opposes a first of the resilient engaging portions of a second of the semi-circular sleeve halves in an axial direction parallel to the central axis, and a second of the resilient engaging portions of the first of the semi-circular sleeve halves axially opposes a second of the resilient engaging portions of the second of the semi-circular sleeve halves in an axial direction parallel to the central axis.
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