Roof module for a motor vehicle comprising a roof skin forming a roof cover

US12172503B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• WEBASTO SE · DE

Inventors

• Michael HUELSEN · Stockdorf, DE
• Dirk Legler · Weil, DE
• Michael Deppe · Munich, DE
• Johannes Thannheimer · Stockdorf, DE
• Thomas Rudolph · Rosbach, DE
• Thomas Lindner · Polling, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 11, 2020
• Grant date: Dec 24, 2024
• Expiry date: Dec 27, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2011/0028
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A roof module for connection to a motor vehicle having a transparent solid roof portion, which forms a see-through roof area and which is immobile relative to the vehicle body when the roof module is in the installed position, and/or a roof opening system having a mobile lid element, by means of which a roof opening can be opened or closed at will, and a closed roof skin, which forms the see-through roof area and/or is adjacent to the roof opening and forms a roof cover outside of the see-through roof area and/or the roof opening. At least one sensor module can be provided having at least one environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment and is disposed outside of the see-through roof area and/or the roof opening and is covered by the roof skin.