Patent · US Expired

Vehicle roof

US4272125A · kind A · utility

20Cited by

9References

8Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Webasto-Werk W. Baier GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

Horst Bienert · Gauting, DE
Richard Igel · Germering, DE
Johann Rengstl · Munich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 22, 1979
Grant date	Jun 9, 1981
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 22, 1999

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T74/20462
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A drive arrangement for opening and closing a cover for an aperture in a vehicle roof via an electric motor acting upon an incompressible cable via an intermediate drive and drive pinion. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the electric motor is substitutable for a crank operated drive while avoiding limited available space associated problems by disposing an intermediate drive in a drive housing to which the electric motor is flanged to form a module which has the shape of a V as viewed from above, one leg of said V being formed by the electric motor and being disposed at right angles to the lengthwise axis of the vehicle, and the other leg of the V containing the intermediate drive and drive pinion.

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