Ventilation roof for vehicles

US5069500A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Webasto AG Fahrzeugtechnik · DE

Inventors

• Peter Reihl · Starnberg, DE
• Arpad Fuerst · Munich, DE
• Bernhard Wingen · Straubing, DE
• Alfred Schmid · Schöfflisdorf, CH
• Thomas Schreiter · Munich, DE
• Erich Haendler · Lampertheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 21, 1990
• Grant date: Dec 3, 1991
• Expiry date: May 21, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/053
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Ventilation roof for vehicles with a roof opening made in a roof skin, a roof opening that can be closed by a cover that is connected to an adjustment mechanism having front and rear height adjustment devices. The cover can be swung by the front height adjustment devices, starting from a closed position, around a pivot axis, lying near its rear edge, into a ventilation position in which the cover front edge lies below the height of roof skin, while the cover rear edge is kept at approximately the height of the roof skin. The rear of the cover can be lowered below the roof skin by the rear height adjustment devices, and the lowered cover can be slid rearward underneath the roof skin into an open position. The front height adjustment devices each have a positively adjustable pivoted lever that is rotatable about an axis that is fixed relative to the roof and with which the cover is detachably coupled only when it is shifted fully forward.