Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Glare screen or visor
Patent
1989-12-28
1991-07-09
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Glare screen or visor
16267, 16341, B60J 300
Patent
active
RE0336319
ABSTRACT:
A hinge assembly is disclosed which is particularly well suited for vehicle accessory applications, such as for pivotally interconnecitng vanity doors with vanity housing structures for example. The hinge assembly, which is also applicable for other applications, includes a pivot means pivotally interconnecting first and second members for relative rotational movement about a longitudinal axis, with a cam on the first member protruding in a generally lateral direction to engage a resilient biasing means on the second member. The resilient biasing means, which is preferably a leaf spring, is slidably engaged and resiliently deflected by the cam on the first member and exerts a resilient biasing force on the cam in a generally lateral direction, generally toward the pivot axis. The cam preferably includes one or more dwell portions such that the spring or other resilient biasing means tends to resiliently and releasably maintain the first and second members in one or more predetermined relative rotational orientations when engaged by the dwell portions on the cam.
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Gavagan James A.
Lobanoff Mark
Song Robert R.
Takata Inc.
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