US 7,320,493 B2
Sun visor
Yasushi Kumakawa, Kanagawa (Japan); and Yoshiaki Enma, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Piolax, Inc., Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa (Japan); and Kasai Kogyo Co., Ltd., Kouza-gun, Kanagawa (Japan)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/246,305.
Claims priority of application No. P2004-298182 (JP), filed on Oct. 12, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0076796 A1, Apr. 13, 2006
Int. Cl. B60J 3/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 296—97.8  [296/97.11] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sun visor mounted at a position being obliquely upward with respect to a driver's seat or a passenger seat of vehicle, the sun visor comprising:
a sun-visor body pivotably supported by a vehicle body through a support member;
an auxiliary visor attached to the sun-visor body slidably;
a sub-plate attached to the auxiliary visor to slide between a first position where the auxiliary visor receives the sub-plate and a second position where the sub-plate is withdrawn from the auxiliary visor; and
a spring that urges the sub-plate toward the second position, the spring comprising a base and two arm portions continuous to the base, wherein:
the spring is formed of a spring wire,
a center portion of the spring wire forms the base of the spring,
the two arm portions are bent to cross each other,
a center portion of the base is convex toward an intersection of the two arm portions, and
the base of the spring abuts against one of the auxiliary visor and the sub-plate and the two arm portions of the spring abut against the other of the auxiliary visor and the sub-plate, to urge the sub-plate elastically.