Sunshade
AssigneeMacauto Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorPaul Lin
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Abstract
A sunshade includes a roller, a screen wound on the roller, a torque unit, and a latch unit. The torque unit is mounted in the roller, extends outwardly of the roller, and is disposed for urging movement of the screen to a wound state. The latch unit includes a plug disposed in the roller and formed with a pin hole, a pin member, and a biasing member disposed in the roller. The pin member has a main portion (521) extending movably through the pin hole, a diameter-enlarged portion disposed in the roller and connected fixedly to the main portion, and a shoulder portion formed between the main portion and the diameter-enlarged portion and biased by the biasing member to abut resiliently against the plug.
Claims3
A sunshade comprising:
- a hollow roller extending in an axial direction;
- a screen wound on said roller, and operable to move from a wound state to an unwound state;
- and a torque unit mounted in said roller, extending outwardly of a first end of said roller and disposed for urging movement of said screen from the unwound state to the wound state;
- and a latch unit including a plug that is disposed in said roller at a second end of said roller opposite to said torque unit and that is formed with a pin hole, a pin member that is movable relative to said plug in the axial direction and that has:
- a main portion extending through said pin hole of said plug, and a diameter-enlarged portion disposed in said roller, connected fixedly to said main portion, and having an outer diameter larger than that of said main portion, and a shoulder portion formed between said main portion and said diameter-enlarged portion;
- and a biasing member that is disposed in said roller for biasing said shoulder portion of said pin member to move to abut resiliently against said plug,
- wherein said plug includes a fixing portion engaging fittingly said second end of said roller, and a positioning portion that extends from said fixing portion in said roller toward said torque unit, and that has an externally threaded surrounding wall, said main portion of said in member extending movably through said fixing and positioning portions of said plug, said biasing member including:
- an engaging segment that engages said externally threaded surrounding wall of said positioning portion of said plug;
- a positioning segment that is coupled to said diameter-enlarged portion of said pin member and that biases said shoulder portion of said pin member to abut resiliently against said positioning portion of said plug;
- and an interconnecting segment that interconnects said engaging segment and said positioning segment;
- wherein, when said pin member is pressed toward said torque unit, said positioning segment of said biasing member is brought to move toward said torque unit and said interconnecting segment of said biasing member is stretched in the axial direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.