The invention relates to a sun blind system for a motor vehicle, having two guide rails, in each of which a guide band is received, and a flat blind body which is connected to the two guide bands, wherein a receiving channel is provided on each guide rail for the corresponding guide band, said channel having two guide sections which are connected together by a deflecting section.

A shading blind for a roof window of a motor vehicle is disclosed, having two guide rails, a roller blind element which has two lateral, flexible guide structures with which it is guided in the guide rails, and a receiving space for the roller blind element, the roller blind element being adjustable between an extended position in which it is largely located outside the receiving space, and a retracted position in which it is largely located in the receiving space, wherein the receiving space, measured in the adjustment direction of the roller blind element, has a length which is approximately half of the adjustment path between the extended and the retracted positions, the height of the receiving space, measured perpendicularly to the plane of the roller blind element located between the guide rails, is such that when the roller blind element is deflected in the receiving space by approximately 180, the guide structures are only elastically deformed and a rear edge of the roller blind element is permanently attached in the receiving space.

A flexible sunscreen is provided intended for use in a sunshade assembly of the type comprising a flexible sunscreen having a central part and two opposed inwardly folded longitudinal edges connected to the central part by means of folding lines, and two opposed longitudinal guides for receiving therein and guiding corresponding ones of the inwardly folded longitudinal edges of the flexible sunscreen, which guides are provided with locking members for engaging an outer end of the inwardly folded longitudinal edges for preventing these edges from moving out of the longitudinal guides. The central part of the flexible sunscreen mainly is manufactured from a first material with a first stiffness wherein of the inwardly folded longitudinal edges and of the parts of the central part adjacent the edges at least part is made of a second material with a second higher stiffness.

Shading apparatus having a carrier frame on which a roller blind shaft, with a flexible roller blind web, is rotatably supported. A guiding profile arrangement laterally guides the roller blind web, and opposing lateral edges of the roller blind web are each provided with a lateral guiding strip guided in the region of each guiding profile arrangement such that, in partially extended operating position of the roller blind web, a tension is applied to the roller blind web transversely relative to the extension direction of the roller blind web. Adjacent to an end-face bearing of the roller blind shaft, there is provided at both sides a support guide for moving the respective lateral guiding strip into a channel portion of the guiding profile arrangement which positioned between the end-face bearing and an open end-face region of the channel portion of the guiding profile arrangement.

A shade device for a vehicle includes: a shade; a retracting mechanism attached to a base end of the shade and retracting the shade in a stored state; a stay attached to a tip end of the shade; an extractable constant force spring; a rod, its tip end portion being attached to the stay and its base end portion being connected to the constant force spring, biased in a deploying direction of the shade by biasing force of the constant force spring, and transmitting the biasing force to the stay; a guide rail that stores the rod and an extracted portion of the constant force spring in the stored state of the shade, and guides the rod when the shade shifts from the stored state to the deploying state; and a locking mechanism that locks movement of the rod in the stored state of the shade.

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 which 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.

An open roof construction for a vehicle comprises a rollo assembly. The rollo assembly comprises a rollo screen and a winding shaft for the rollo screen which is rotatable around a stationary axis of rotation. The rollo screen firstly extends in a first direction, next around a reversal member and finally back in an opposite second direction and ends at a rollo screen edge which is attached to a stationary member. The rollo screen has two longitudinal edges which, when the rollo screen is wound off, are brought into engagement with holding members. The longitudinal edges of the rollo screen each comprise a hooking member insertable into a holding groove and hook behind a narrow entrance thereof. A reversal member is provided with a device acting on at least one of the hooking member and holding groove to enable the hooking member to enter and exit the holding groove.

A vehicle window shade system to seal the widow area from the rest of the vehicle. The shade is stored in the dash and extends upward via tracks on the window posts. The screen is sealed at the top to the headliner. The screen is stored in a container in the dashboard.

To provide a shade guide structure which can be used for an application in which the guide rails are curved, in which the sliding resistance is low, and which can reduce abrasion, a shade guide structure includes: a shade sheet wound around a winding shaft so that the shade sheet can be wound up and drawn out; guide belts provided along either side edge of the shade sheet and each joined to the shade sheet via a fixation part provided substantially at a center in a width direction; and left and right guide rails which guide the guide belts in a longitudinal direction when the shade sheet is wound up or drawn out, wherein each guide rail includes: a guide wall having a lock surface which is inclined relative to the shade sheet in a transverse cross section and locks the guide belts; a slot which is formed in the guide wall and through which the shade sheet passes; and a guide part which contacts the shade sheet such that the shade sheet extends from the fixation part substantially at a right angle to the guide belt.

A roller blind for shading a transparent vehicle section having a roller blind web which can be wound up to form a roller blind reel and which is guided in a guide rail at each of its lateral edges on either side of a longitudinal center plane of the roller blind, and two driving means, each of which is guided in a guide track of one of the guide rails. Each driving means is formed by a toothed belt which has a substantially rectangular cross-section and a toothing on at least one side whose teeth run at least approximately parallel to the plane of the unwound roller blind web in the transverse direction of the respective guide rail, the roller blind web being pressed between the toothed belt underside having the toothing and a bottom of the guide track and being deflected in the guide track by the toothed belt.