Vehicle roof with solar power source and contact device

US5154481A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Webasto AG Fahrzeugtechnik · DE

Inventors

• Werner Paetz · Haslach im Kinzigtal, DE
• Klaus Meiler · Pocking, DE
• Thomas W. Schumacher · Pontiac, US
• Horst Bienert · Gauting, DE
• August Hirschberger · Munich, DE
• Hermann Pfisterer · Stockdorf, DE
• Manfred Hoeller · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 1, 1991
• Grant date: Oct 13, 1992
• Expiry date: Jul 1, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S136/291
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Vehicle roof with at least one cover that, alternatively, closes or at least partially opens an opening in a fixed roof surface of the vehicle, carries a solar power source for supplying power to at least one power consuming device that is separately located from the cover, and with a contact device for producing an electrical connection between the solar power source and the consuming device. The contact device is made as a switch arrangement that incorporates the cover so that the power consuming device is connected to the solar power source in one or more predetermined cover positions and is disconnected from the solar power source in all other cover positions.