Motor vehicle having a rollover bar

US5094478A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE
• Alfred Teves GmbH & Co oHG · DE

Inventors

• Dieter Pfanzeder · Deggendorf, DE
• Wolfgang Dangl · Munich, DE
• Klaus Kapitza · Baldham, DE
• Martin Wegge · Munich, DE
• Hagen Schneider · Selters (Westerwald), DE
• Reinhard Nowack · Drolshagen, DE
• Gerhard Reuber · Drolshagen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 2, 1990
• Grant date: Mar 10, 1992
• Expiry date: Aug 2, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/135
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A convertible motor vehicle is provided with two rollover bars which can be swivelled out of a lowered inoperative position into an upwardly directed supporting position and back around a swivel axis fixed at the vehicle and extending essentially in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The rollover protection system can be integrated into conventional vehicle concepts in a particularly space-saving and advantageous manner and reduces the risk of injury in the case of a fast, sensor-controlling swinging-up of the rollover bars.