IP Library Granted Patent US 10,518,612
Granted Patent B2
US 10,518,612 · App. 16/012,239 · Granted Dec 31, 2019

Vehicle sun visor

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Patent No.
US 10,518,612
App. No.
16/012,239
Granted
Dec 31, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle sun visor has a sun visor body including an electrical component, an arm including a cylindrical-end portion with contact parts of a pair of conductors and rotatably holding the sun visor body, a mounting bracket for mounting the arm to a vehicle, and a connector including a pair of terminals to contact with a corresponding contact part of the pair of conductors. On the upper side and the lower side of the cylindrical-end portion exposed outside an arm-supporting portion of the mounting bracket, a small-diameter cylindrical-end portion and a large-diameter cylindrical-end portion are provided. The small-diameter cylindrical-end portion and the large-diameter cylindrical-end portion are provided with cutouts provided at alternate positions. First arcuate plate shape contact part is arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the small-diameter cylindrical-end portion, and second arcuate plate shape contact part is arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the large-diameter cylindrical-end portion.

Claims (12)

1. A vehicle sun visor comprising:

a sun visor body including an electrical component;

a non-conductive arm comprising a cylindrical-end portion on which contact parts of a pair of conductors are arranged and rotatably holding the sun visor body;

a mounting bracket configured to mount the non-conductive arm to a vehicle; and

a connector detachably attached to the mounting bracket and including a pair of terminals each having a contact portion to contact with a corresponding contact part of the pair of conductors and configured to supply electric power, wherein

the mounting bracket comprises an arm-supporting portion for rotatably supporting a cylindrical-end-portion side of the non-conductive arm,

the contact parts of the pair of conductors are formed in an arcuate plate shape,

the cylindrical-end portion exposed outside the arm-supporting portion comprises a small-diameter cylindrical-end portion provided on the upper side and a large-diameter cylindrical-end portion provided on the lower side,

cutouts are provided at alternate positions of the small-diameter cylindrical-end portion and the large-diameter cylindrical-end portion, and

first arcuate plate shape contact part, which is one of the pair of arcuate plate shape contact parts, is arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the small-diameter cylindrical-end portion, and second arcuate plate shape contact part, which is the other of the pair of arcuate plate shape contact parts, is arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the large-diameter cylindrical-end portion.

2. The vehicle sun visor according to claim 1 ,

wherein slits configured to store lubricating oil are longitudinally provided at positions of the arcuate plate shape contact parts wherein the contact portion of the terminals are in contact with the arcuate plate shape contact parts at the position, and lubricating oil to be supplied to the contact portion of the terminals is stored in the slits.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 5, 2023
From: YAZAKI CORPORATION
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063845/0802 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 19, 2018
From: SHIMIZU, TOMOHIKO; YAMAMOTO, TOSHINORI
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 046132/0616 →