Patent ID: 7934764

Claim:
A motor vehicle comprising a vehicle body with a rear side window, said rear side window being divided by an approximately vertically extending window post into a rectangular window section and a triangular side window section, the triangular side window section being bounded by a bottom edge and an upper edge that is sloped at an angle to the bottom edge; a window shade for the triangular side window section including a winding shaft rotatably supported by the window post; a shade sheet having an edge attached to the winding shaft and a tip, the shade sheet having a configuration adapted to the shape of the triangular side window section; a guide rail extending along the bottom edge of the triangular side window section having a first end adjacent said vertically extending window post and a second end adjacent an end of the triangular window section opposite said window post, said guide rail defining a guide groove; a slide having an upwardly extending arm connected to the tip of said shade sheet that is guided in said guide rail groove for movement between a retracted position adjacent said window post in which said shade sheet is wound up on said windup shaft and an extended position adjacent the second end of said guide rail in which said shade sheet overlies said triangular side window section; a linear actuation element coupled to the slide; a drive device for the winding shaft and the actuating element; said slide arm extending vertically upwardly in parallel relation to said window post when said slide is in said retracted position at a location adjacent said window post, said slide arm being pivotable at a location adjacent said window post at the beginning of travel from the position parallel to said window post to a position oriented at acute angles to the window post and the bottom window edge as an incident to movement of the slide in a direction toward said extended position, and said guide groove maintaining said slide with said arm in an inclined position without further pivotal movement of the arm relative to the guide rail and window post during movement of said slide from said position adjacent the window post to said shade sheet extended position.