Folding hood for motor vehicles

US5320400A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Orth · Weil der Stadt, DE
• Arnold Klimas · Sindelfingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 11, 1993
• Grant date: Jun 14, 1994
• Expiry date: Mar 11, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/1247
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A folding hood for motor vehicles has a dimensionally stable rear window, especially made of mineral glass, which, when the hood is closed, is connected along its lower edge side via a rigidly tensioned tensioning means to a material-retaining hoop forming the lower termination of the hood. When the hood is folded down, the rear window can be folded downwards into a storage position about an axis extending approximately parallel to the lower edge side of the rear window. In order to prevent drumming noises produced during driving operation by flapping movements of the rear window, a support device is arranged on the material retaining hoop, by which the rear window is supported, close to its lower edge side, transversely to the direction of tension of the tensioning means on the material-retaining hoop, while the folding hood remains closed.