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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2002
Peter De Ceuster, Itegem, BE;
Peter Butz GmbH & Co. Verwaltungs-KG, Langenfeld, DE;
Abstract
A cargo-space cover for a motor vehicle has a fitting permanently mounted in the motor vehicle and a housing having an end cap complementarily fittable in a seat of the fitting. A shaft rotatable in the housing carries a cover sheet windable by a drive motor in the housing on the shaft. A pair of contacts fixed and exposed in the seat and connectable to power circuitry are engageable with a complementary pair of contacts fixed on and exposed at the end cap and positioned so as to engage the respective seat contacts when the end cap is fitted to the seat to connect the motor via the two pairs of contacts to the power circuitry. A latch retains the end cap in the seat with the end-cap contacts in solid contact with the seat contacts.