Patent ID: 11858317
Assignee: TERRAWAGEN, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 11:
12. A vented window shade for a vehicle, comprising:
an opaque panel having a shape of a portion of a window glass for a vehicle and a thickness of the window glass around a portion of a perimeter of the opaque panel so as to be removably insertable within a portion of a channel defined by a vehicle door that otherwise is configured to receive the window glass;
the opaque panel having an edge-channel complementary in shape to an edge of the window glass, said edge-channel configured to receive the edge of the window glass, wherein
if the vehicle window is opened, the opaque panel can be inserted into a space vacated by the window glass, and
after the opaque panel is inserted into the space vacated by the window glass, the window glass can be positioned within the edge-channel to secure the opaque panel in the space vacated by the window glass, the opaque panel further comprising:
a thermo-formed exterior panel having a major surface and defining at least one louvered vent that opens through the thermo-formed exterior panel, the louvered vent defining an aperture through the major surface;
a mesh screen adhered to the major surface of the thermo-formed exterior panel, the mesh-screen extending across the aperture;
an interior panel so bonded with the thermo-formed exterior panel opposite the major surface thereof relative to the mesh screen as to be immovably affixed with the thermo-formed exterior panel, wherein the edge channel is defined by a gap between a portion of the thermo-formed exterior panel and the interior panel.