Steven E Phillips

US Patent:

6773051, Aug 10, 2004

Filed:

Apr 4, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/116711

Inventors:

Geoffrey W. Davey - Huntington Woods MI
Erik R. Davis - Oak Park MI
Steven B. Phillips - Southfield MI
Terry L. Brandl - Marine City MI

Assignee:

Intier Automotive Inc. - Aurora

International Classification:

B60J 306

US Classification:

296 977, 24293

Abstract:

A sun visor clip for aligning and attaching a sun visor to a headliner of a motor vehicle. The sun visor has a mounting bezel including a tubular center bearing and a plurality of longitudinal grooves formed in the tubular center bearing. The headliner includes a visor opening, a recessed portion surrounding the visor opening, and a plurality of depressions spaced about the recessed portion. The sun visor clip includes a base defining a plane and having an outer peripheral edge and an inner peripheral edge defining a center aperture. The sun visor clip also includes a plurality of alignment tabs projecting radially from the outer peripheral edge for cooperation with the depressions in the headliner to align the sun visor clip within the recessed portion of the headliner. In addition, the sun visor clip includes a plurality of guide tabs projecting radially inwardly from the inner peripheral edge for aligning each of the plurality of longitudinal grooves in the tubular center bearing whereby the sun visor clip aligns the mounting bezel with the headliner upon receipt of the tubular center bearing through the visor opening and the center aperture of the sun visor clip.