Vehicle visor and light assembly

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9783105-B2
Application number	US-201514959311-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 4, 2015
Priority date	Jun 9, 2010
Publication date	Oct 10, 2017
Grant date	Oct 10, 2017

Abstract

A vehicle sun visor is provided that includes a visor body having a first side and a second side, and a vanity and lighting assembly located on the visor body. The assembly includes a lighting device located on the visor body. The lighting device is configured to provide a vanity light for a vanity mirror and is further configured to provide a dome light.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle visor comprising:
a visor body having a first side and a second side;
a vanity mirror assembly located on the first side of the visor body;
a lighting device assembly comprising one or more light sources mounted onto a supporting circuit board that rotates between first and second positions; and
a rotating mechanism comprising an actuatable spring biased cable for rotating the lighting device assembly between the first position which aligns the one or more light sources with the first side of the visor body to serve as a vanity light for the vanity mirror and a second position which aligns the one or more light sources with the second side of the visor body to serve as a dome light.

2. The visor as defined in claim 1 , wherein the rotating mechanism rotates the light device assembly by about 180° between alignment with the first side and alignment with the second side.

3. The visor as defined in claim 1 , wherein a spring biased cable is actuated by movement of the vanity lid.

4. The visor as defined in claim 1 , wherein the one or more light sources comprise one or more light emitting diodes.

5. A vehicle visor comprising:
a visor body having opposite first and second sides;
a vanity mirror assembly located on the first side of the visor body; and
a rotatable lighting device assembly enclosed within the visor body between the first and second sides of the visor body and configured to provide a vanity light aligned on the first side and rotatable to provide a dome light aligned on the second side.

6. The visor as defined in claim 5 further comprising a rotating mechanism coupled to the lighting device assembly for rotating the lighting device assembly between first and second positions to illuminate light forward of the first side of the visor body and rearward of the second side of the visor body.

7. The visor as defined in claim 6 , wherein the lighting device assembly comprises one or more light devices mounted onto a circuit board which is coupled to the rotating mechanism.

8. The visor as defined in claim 7 further comprising a vanity lid, and wherein the rotating mechanism comprises a spring biased cable that is actuated by movement of the vanity lid.

9. The visor as defined in claim 6 , wherein the rotating mechanism rotates the light device assembly by about 180° between alignment with the first side and alignment with the second side.

10. A vehicle visor comprising:
a visor body having first and second sides;
a vanity mirror assembly located on the first side;
a rotatable lighting device assembly located on the visor body; and
a rotating mechanism comprising a spring biased cable for rotating the rotatable lighting device assembly between a vanity light position on the first side and a dome light position on the second side of the visor body.

11. The visor as defined in claim 1 , wherein the first side is opposite the second side.

12. The visor as defined in claim 11 , wherein the rotating mechanism rotates the light device assembly by about 180° between alignment with the first side and alignment with the second side.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Stakoe John Andrew
• Li Chi

Classifications

• B60J3/0282

  specially adapted for a courtesy mirror · CPC title

• B60Q3/252

  Sun visors · CPC title

• B60Q3/74 Primary

  for overall compartment lighting; for overall compartment lighting in combination with specific lighting, e.g. room lamps with reading lamps (general lighting mounted on specific fittings B60Q3/20; general lighting for mass transit vehicles B60Q3/43) · CPC title