	US 12,011,978 B2
	Innovative windshield sunshades configuration and selection process
Rohan Vishnubhai Patel, Bensalem, PA (US)
Assigned to RVP1987 LLC, Bensalem, PA (US)
Filed by Rohan Vishnubhai Patel, Bensalem, PA (US)
Filed on Sep. 26, 2017, as Appl. No. 15/715,775.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/530,999, filed on Jul. 11, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2018/0194204 A1, Jul. 12, 2018
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60J 1/20 (2006.01); E06B 9/24 (2006.01)

CPC B60J 1/2011 (2013.01) [B60J 1/2091 (2013.01); E06B 9/24 (2013.01); E06B 2009/2488 (2013.01)]

15 Claims

1. An automobile sunshade compatibility guidance method for an automobile sunshade having at least one flexible steel flat wire loop member, the guidance method providing compatibility guidance for at least two vehicle models, the guidance method comprising:

a. providing a guidance chart for at least one size of the automobile sunshade, wherein the guidance chart displays the at least two vehicle models next to one another;

b. providing the automobile sunshade in the at least one size thereof, the automobile sunshade comprising the at least one flexible steel flat wire loop member and a fabric to which the at least one flexible steel flat wire loop member is secured;

wherein each of the at least one flexible steel flat wire loop member consists of a first end and a second end of a flexible steel flat wire secured by a pressed metal covering with opposite pressing points, the metal covering having two covering width surfaces and two covering thickness surfaces, each of the two covering width surfaces being larger than each of the two covering thickness surfaces;

wherein at least two of the opposite pressing points on the two covering width surfaces are configured to protrude into a space defined within the metal covering to secure the first end and the second end, wherein the opposite pressing points contact and deform the first end and/or the second end, wherein; the metal covering secures the first end and the second end of the flexible steel flat wire within the space without overlapping of the first end and the second end, wherein the first end and the second end do not contact each other within the metal covering, and the metal covering substantially entirely surrounds a perimeter of each of the first end and the second end;

wherein at least one of the opposite pressing points is disposed on at least one of the two covering width sides and at least another of the opposite adjacent pressing points is disposed on at least another of the two covering width sides;

wherein the automobile sunshade is configured to be twisted and folded further to cause the at least one flexible steel flat wire loop member to collapse within itself to form a collapsed state.