Sliding roof for an automobile

US5306069A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rockwell Golde GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Becker · Dorfen, DE
• Albert Schlapp · Dreieich, DE
• Gunther Pfeifer · Dresden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 5, 1991
• Grant date: Apr 26, 1994
• Expiry date: Dec 5, 2011

Classification

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

Abstract

In a sliding roof for automobiles, comprising a non-slidable, front wind deflector, pivotal at its front edge in a roof opening, and a rear sliding lid, slidably guided in the roof opening, the roof opening is filled by the mutually adjoining surfaces of wind deflector and sliding lid when the roof is closed. For creating a ventilation gap of high effectiveness between the rear edge of the wind deflector and the front edge of the sliding lid in conjunction with an aerodynamically favourable small pivoting out angle of the wind deflector, it is provided that the sliding lid, starting from its closed position, is pivotally journalled about a pivot axis provided in the vicinity of its rear edge, in the sense of lowering its front edge. For the opening displacement, the sliding lid is also lowered at its rear edge, with the result that, with low overall depth of the roof construction, the lid is displaceable approximately in a parallel orientation to the roof surface beneath a rear roof surface. A threaded cable drive assembly can be used to provide the actuating movements both of the wind deflector and of the sliding lid.