Top for a convertible vehicle comprising a front bow and a headliner

US11427061B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• WEBASTO SE · DE

Inventors

• Alexander Haimerl · Stockdorf, DE
• Heinrich Wüllrich · Stockdorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 26, 2021
• Grant date: Aug 30, 2022
• Expiry date: Feb 26, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/0442
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A top for a convertible vehicle, the top having a top linkage displaceable between a cover and storage position, and which may have a front bow forming a front edge of the top when the top is in the cover position and accommodating a front lock by which the front bow can be fastened to a front header of the vehicle when the top is in the cover position, and the top having a headliner, the front bow having an upper bow shell to which a drive of the front lock is attached and whose upper side is covered by a top cover. The front bow may have a lower bow shell extending at least largely across the width of the front bow in the transverse direction of the top and whose underside is fully covered by the headliner and defines the shape of the headliner with its entire surface.