Vehicle sun visor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10434848-B2
Application number	US-201816111498-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 24, 2018
Priority date	Aug 28, 2017
Publication date	Oct 8, 2019
Grant date	Oct 8, 2019

Abstract

A vehicle sun visor includes a sun visor body, an arm including a cylindrical end portion provided with contact parts of a pair of conductors and rotatably holding the sun visor body, a mounting bracket configured to mount the arm to a vehicle, and a connector having a pair of terminals each including a contact portion configured to contact each contact part. The mounting bracket includes an arm-supporting portion supporting the cylindrical end portion. The contact parts are a pair of arcuate-plate-shaped contact parts. The pair of arcuate-plate-shaped contact parts is provided at a predetermined interval on an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical end portion. The housing of the connector further includes a lubricating oil reservoir being disposed at a position facing to at least one arcuate-plate-shaped contact part and configured to store lubricating oil to be supplied to the at least one arcuate-plate-shaped contact part.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle sun visor comprising:
a sun visor body including an electrical component;
a non-conductive arm including a cylindrical end portion provided with contact parts of a pair of conductors 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 having a pair of terminals configured to supply electric power, each terminal having a contact portion configured to contact each contact part of the contact parts of the pair of conductors,
wherein the mounting bracket includes an arm-supporting portion supporting the cylindrical end portion of the non-conductive arm to be rotatable,
wherein the contact parts of the pair of conductors are a pair of arcuate-plate-shaped contact parts each formed in an arcuate plate shape,
wherein the pair of arcuate-plate-shaped contact parts is provided at a predetermined interval on an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical end portion, the outer peripheral surface being exposed outside of the arm-supporting portion, and
wherein the housing of the connector further comprises a lubricating oil reservoir being disposed at a position facing to at least one arcuate-plate-shaped contact part of the pair of arcuate-plate-shaped contact parts of the housing of the connector and configured to store lubricating oil to be supplied to the at least one arcuate-plate-shaped contact part.

2. The vehicle sun visor according to claim 1 ,
wherein each terminal of the pair of terminals includes a spring portion provided with the contact portion,
wherein the housing has a protruding wall provided at a position corresponding to each spring portion and covering each spring portion, and
wherein the protruding wall includes the lubricating oil reservoir.

3. The vehicle sun visor according to claim 2 ,
wherein the cylindrical end portion exposed outside of the arm-supporting portion comprises a small-diameter cylindrical end portion arranged on an upper side of the cylindrical end portion and a large-diameter cylindrical end portion arranged on an lower side of the cylindrical end portion,
wherein cutouts are provided at alternate positions of the small-diameter cylindrical end portion and the large-diameter cylindrical end portion,
wherein a first arcuate-plate-shaped contact part of the pair of arcuate-plate-shaped contact parts is disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the small-diameter cylindrical end portion, and a second arcuate-plate-shaped contact part of the pair of arcuate-plate-shaped contact parts is disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the large-diameter cylindrical end portion, and
wherein the lubricating oil reservoir is provided at a position facing the second arcuate-plate-shaped contact part of the protruding wall and configured to store the lubricating oil to be supplied to the second arcuate-plate-shaped contact part.

4. The vehicle sun visor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the pair of arcuate-plate-shaped contact parts is each provided via a gap at the same height in the extending direction of the non-conductive arms on an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical end portion which is exposed on the outside of the arm-supporting portion, and
wherein the lubricating oil reservoir is provided at a position facing the pair of arcuate-plate-shaped contact parts of the protruding wall and configured to store the lubricating oil to be supplied to the pair of arcuate-plate-shaped contact parts.

Assignees

• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Nishiyama Noritaka

Classifications

• B60Q3/252

  Sun visors · CPC title

• B60J3/0217 Primary

  Brackets for mounting the sun visor support arm to the vehicle · CPC title

• B60R16/027

  between relatively movable parts of the vehicle, e.g. between steering wheel and column {(devices for measuring, signalling or controlling tyre pressure or temperature specially adapted for mounting on vehicles B60C23/00)} · CPC title

• B60J3/0213 Primary

  characterised by the mounting means (B60J3/0208 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60J3/0221

  self mounting, i.e. no tools or screws required · CPC title