Gebr. Happich Gmbh

Daimler-benz Ag

Becker Group Europe Gmbh

Manfred Nowak

Lothar Viertel

Gunter Dietz

Klaus-Peter Kaiser

Gerhard Zweigart

Gert Mahler

Heinz Baumert

Ferdinand Greiner

Elke Grunzner

Roland Ganssler

Peter Juraschek

Peter Scheiffele

A receptacle, such as an ashtray, glove compartment or the like for vehicles, is described, comprised of a housing, a cover, which is hinged to the housing along a rim edge and extends over the housing with at least one curved guide arm, and a releasable detent device for maintaining the cover against the force of an opening spring in the closed position when the cover covers the housing. The detent device, which can be actuated by acting on the cover, has a heart-shaped control cam, which is arranged on the guide arm and embodied as a connecting link groove. A bolt, which is formed on a hinged lever on the housing side, acts against the cam and rests in a lockable manner therewith. In connection with this receptacle, it is provided in accordance with the invention that a blocking device, which reacts to extreme changes in velocity, is arranged on the housing. The blocking device prevents the hinged lever from relinquishing its position thereby maintaining the cover in the locked position.

Receptacle, such as an ashtray, glove compartment or the like for

A swivel bearing for a vehicle sun visor which can be swivelled about a vertical axis of the vehicle in front of either a front or a side window comprises a bearing bracket which can be fixed in recessed fashion in a recess of a windscreen frame extending transversely above the front window and, in a hollow space, supports swivellably a curved bearing rod for the sun visor body, the hollow space of the bearing bracket being coverable by a covering part which can be mounted on and has a slot-shaped swivel opening for the curved bearing rod.

Swivel bearing for a sun visor

A sun visor for vehicles is disclosed which has a cushioning sun visor body surrounded by a cover layer and stiffened by an incorporated reinforcement insert. At one end of one of the longitudinal edges of the body, a support shaft is mounted with one end in the body and the other end held by a swivel bearing. At the other end of the same longitudinal edge, a support pin is mounted extending across a recess defined in that edge. The support pin is approximately parallel to that longitudinal edge and can be detachably engaged with the support receiver of an outer support. The support pin is formed, in whole or in part, of a plastic body which is injection molded directly onto a region of the cover layer.

Sun visor for vehicles

A sun visor for automotive vehicles including a mirror supported in a housing which is in a recess defined in a surface of the visor body. The mirror is reversible for exposing its reflecting or non-reflecting sides. One edge of the mirror is swingably supported in bearing pedestals which are slidable in lateral guide slots defined in the housing in the recess, whereby as the mirror is reversed in position, the pivot axis thereof slides along the guide slots.

Sun visor, particularly for automotive vehicles, with reversible mirror

A sun visor for an automotive vehicle has a generally flat visor body of approximately rectangular contour. It is separated into an upper part and a lower part which are movable along guide pins toward and away from each other effectively lengthening or shortening the height of the visor body. Pins projecting from the lower edge of the upper part are received in pin receivers opening at the upper edge of the lower part, so that the upper part and lower part may be moved together and apart. A tongue-like extension projects from one side surface or from both side surfaces of the upper part down past the corresponding side surface of the lower part, and the extension is of a length so that when the upper and lower parts are separated, the tongue-like extension covers the gap between them.

Height adjustable sun visor for automotive vehicles

The invention is concerned with a hollow mounting pin for a sun visor for an automotive vehicle. The mounting pin is bent. One leg is affixed to the body of the automotive vehicle. The other leg serves as one part of the swivel bearing for the sun visor body. An electric conductor passes through the hollow mounting pin. At the end of the hollow mounting pin located at the swivel bearing on the visor body, a receptacle is formed. An electric switch contact is supported in the receptacle. The contact includes a contact projection that extends through the wall of the receptacle. A cooperating strap is defined on the visor body. As the visor body is swiveled, the strap selectively contacts or is out of contact with the contact projection. The electric switch contact in the receptacle is prevented from pivoting with respect to the receptacle by the contact projection and/or by appropriate complementary profiling of the electric switch contact and the receptacle. Various configurations for the electric switch contact are disclosed, including a U-shaped body with the contact projection being at the web of the 'U', a length of wire, bent generally hairpin-like, and having a U-shape, with the contact projection being on the one arm of the 'U'. The electric switch contact is adapted to have the conductor that passes through the hollow mounting pin secured to it and through the contact strap on the visor body, the electric connection to the light source is made.

Bearing for a sun visor for a vehicle having a mirror illuminated by an

The invention concerns a novel electric connection to a light source, or the like, on a sun visor for a vehicle. At one edge of the sun visor body, there is a pivot pin that is supported in a preferably plastic support that is held in the sun visor body. The pivot pin is received in a socket held to the body of the vehicle and which includes electtric contacts in it. An electric lead extends through the pivot pin and leads to the light source. The pivot pin has a radially extending groove. A contact element extends from outside the groove into the groove for contacting the lead therein. The contact element extends out of the groove and may be wrapped around the pivot pin for engaging a corresponding contact element in the socket, which contact element is connected, in turn, to an electric wire in the vehicle electrical system. Various forms of contact elements for the pivot pin are disclosed. This includes a sleeve positioned in the bore in the pivot pin and having arms projecting out of the groove of the pivot pin to the exterior of the pivot pin for contacting the contact element in the socket. Alternatively, a C-shaped claw member is wrapped around the pivot pin, and the longitudinal edges of the claw project through the groove so that at least one of the edges of the claw contacts the wire in the bore of the pin. In another embodiment, the pivot pin has two diametrically opposite grooves and each longitudinal edge of the claw projects into a respective groove.

Electric connection to sun visor for automotive vehicles, or the like

A sun visor, including a mirror which can be lighted: there is an outer frame secured in the visor body and an inner frame which can be snapped into and out of the inner frame between two pivot positions; an electric contact on the inner frame engages a contact on the outer frame when the inner frame is flipped out; a spring biased latch holds the inner frame in the outer frame; when the latch is released, a spring biases the inner frame to be flipped out.

A vehicle sun visor is supportable on a vehicle body by a main bearing and by a counterbearing; the vehicle electrical system is connected to contacts in the counterbearing housing; leads to a lamp on the sun visor are connected to contact means on the visor body and the contact means on the visor body are engageable with the contact means in the counterbearing housing; a cover over the lamp includes contacts which are opened and closed by movement of the cover.

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Solingen, Germany

Manfred Nowak