A door curtain assembly having a sub-curtain unit is provided and includes a main fabric that is wound in a trim of a vehicle door; and a main shade bar that is installed in an upper end of the main fabric and fixed to a hook provided in the door when the main fabric is deployed. A sub-curtain part is additionally deployed after the main curtain part is deployed. The sub-curtain part includes a sub-housing having a first side hinge-coupled to the door and a second side interlocked with ascending or descending of the main shade bar. Additionally, a sub-fabric is wound in the sub-housing and a sub-shade bar is installed in an end portion of the sub-fabric in a length direction of the sub-housing.

A protective device including a flexible fabric shiftable longitudinally between different functional positions, and provided on opposite side edges with respective stiffening strips guided in a manner shiftable longitudinally in vehicle-mounted guide tracks. A pull-out profile extends transversely with respect to the longitudinal shifting direction of the fabric and is connected to an end region thereof. The pull-out profile is guided in the vehicle-mounted guide tracks by guide elements, and each stiffening strip is fastened on the end side to a respective guide element. Each stiffening strip has at least three receptacles provided one behind another in the longitudinal shifting direction, and the guide element is assigned at least three profiling portions spaced apart from one another in the longitudinal shifting direction and projecting into the receptacles in a form-fitting manner transversely with respect to the longitudinal shifting direction.

A window assembly for a vehicle includes a frame, one or more panes secured to the frame, and a shade movably coupled to the frame. The shade is configured to be moved between an open position and a closed position. The shade includes an illuminator that is configured to allow ambient light from outside of the vehicle to pass through and illuminate the illuminator.

The present invention refers to a window sun blind arrangement having a control circuit, which comprises at least one braking unit having a braking MOSFET-switch M2. The braking unit is configured to introduce an electrical power within the control circuit after decoupling the control circuit from an electric power supply into the motor unit in a reverse direction, as compared to its original operating direction, for braking its current movement. Moreover, the present invention refers to an appropriate control circuit, to a vehicle with such a window sun blind arrangement or control circuit and to various methods for operating such window sun blind arrangements.

The present invention refers to a window sun blind arrangement having a control circuit, which comprises a second switching unit having a MOSFET-switch M1. The second switching unit comprises a control unit CU configured to operate the MOSFET-switch M1. The MOSFET-switch M1 has an activated operation state, in which electrical power can be supplied from an electric power supply to a second power port of a motor unit via a second power supply path II, and a non-activated operation state, in which electrical power cannot be supplied from the electric power supply to the motor unit via the second power supply path II. The control unit is configured to operate the MOSFET-switch M1 in the activated operation state, when a current flowing through the MOSFET-switch M1 and the motor unit does not exceed a predetermined threshold value, and to operate the MOSFET-switch M1 in the non-activated operation state, when the current flowing through the MOSFET-switch M1 and the motor unit exceeds the predetermined threshold value. Moreover, the present invention refers to an appropriate control circuit, to a vehicle with such a window sun blind arrangement or control circuit and to various methods for operating such window sun blind arrangements.

A window sun blind arrangement having a control circuit. The control circuit comprises a first switching unit having a micro-switch MS. The first switching unit has a non-activated operation mode, in which electrical power can be supplied from an electric power supply to a first power port of a motor unit via a first power supply path I in a first direction, and an activated operation mode, in which electrical power cannot be supplied from the electric power supply to the motor unit via the first power port of the motor unit and in which the electrical power within the control circuit is introduced into a second power port of the motor unit in a second, reverse direction. The first switching unit is configured to be switched from the non-activated operation mode to the activated operation mode when a drop bar of the window sun blind arrangement reaches its upper end position or its lower end position.

A shading device for a vehicle, having a roller blind web and a winding shaft for winding unwinding the roller blind web in an extension direction. The guide rails are arranged opposite one another and each have a guide channel extending in the extension direction, wherein the roller blind web is guided in a displaceable manner in the extension direction on opposite sides in the guide channels of the guide rail while being wound and unwound and extends between the guide rails such that the roller blind web is guided out of each guide channel along a deflection region in the direction of the respectively other guide channel, wherein the roller blind web bears on the associated guide rail in the respective deflection region, wherein in that each guide rail is configured in the deflection region such that at least partial linear contact is formed by the roller blind web.

A roller blind arrangement for a motor vehicle, having a roller blind web and a winding shaft onto which the roller blind web can be wound and from which the roller blind web can be unwound and which has a flexible hollow tube arrangement penetrated by a bearing beam attached to the vehicle. The hollow tube arrangement may have a hollow tube element which, viewed in the axial direction, may have multiple flexible portions interrupted by at least one stabilizing portion having a greater torsional strength than the flexible portions.

A vehicle roof having at least one transparent roof portion, a roof-attached support portion and a roller blind assembly for selectively shading or at least partially exposing the transparent roof portion, the roller blind assembly having at least one roller blind unit comprising a roller blind web, which can be wound up into a roller blind coil, and a lateral bearing element on either side of the vertical longitudinal center plane of the roof. The roller blind coil can be disposed between the two lateral bearing elements. The roller blind assembly may have a bearing shell on top of which the at least one roller blind unit is attached via the lateral bearing elements and which is fixed to the at least one support portion from below.

A vehicle roof having a plate-shaped body-shell element and a shading arrangement which has a shading element and guide rails for laterally guiding the shading element. At least one fixing element is formed integrally on each of the guide rails at an upper side facing the body-shell element, said fixing element being in engagement with at least one molded portion which is molded to the body-shell element and has at least one fixing counterpart.