Inflatable roof for a motor vehicle

US5297837A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG · DE

Inventors

• Hermann Burst · Rutesheim, DE
• Dieter Raisch · Rutesheim, DE
• Matthias Aydt · Eberdingen, DE
• Walter Braun · Schorndorf, DE
• August-Wilhelm Goesse · Monsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 1993
• Grant date: Mar 29, 1994
• Expiry date: Jan 25, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/1256
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An inflatable roof for a passenger car extends in the inflated condition between a windshield frame and a rear area of the vehicle body and is divided into a plurality of air chambers. So that, while the drag coefficient is acceptable, a sufficient stiffness of the roof is achieved and, furthermore, any balloon-like swelling-up of the roof during the inflating of the air chambers is avoided, it is provided that the roof has air chambers with different pressure levels (operating pressure).