Sliding and lifting roof with tiltable sliding liner panel controlled by a guidance arrangement

US4679846A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Webasto-Werk W. Baier GmbH & Co. · DE
• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Horst Lux · Herrenberg, DE
• Walter Schatzler · Gauting, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 21, 1985
• Grant date: Jul 14, 1987
• Expiry date: Nov 21, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/05
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A sliding and lifting roof construction for vehicles having a rigid cover of the type which closes a roof opening in a fixed roof surface in a closed position thereof and is selectively shiftable from the closed position by either being upwardly tilted so that a rear edge of the cover is disposed above the fixed roof surface or by being slid rearwardly after lowering of the cover rear edge below the fixed roof surface, and has a tiltable, sliding roof liner panel that is slidable together with the cover and which, upon raising the cover, is induced into a raising movement that, starting from the closed position of the cover, is faster than the raising movement of the cover; wherein the tiltable siding roof liner panel, at least on one of its sides, is coupled with a pivotable lifting arm. The pivotable lifting arm is designed for providing positive guidance for the pivotable movement thereof in response to movement of a lifting lever of a lifting mechanism for the cover panel in a manner that produces a pivotable movement characteristic for the liner panel that is different from the rate of movement of the cover.