Motor vehicle having an at least partially retractable roof

US5647630A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Arno Jambor · Leinfelden, DE
• Dieter Guertler · Stuttgart, DE
• Mark Muehlhausen · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 10, 1995
• Grant date: Jul 15, 1997
• Expiry date: Jul 10, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60N2/305
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle is provided with an at least partially retractable roof and a rear seat area provided with a seat arrangement to be used as a storage space into which the retractable roof area can be moved from above, whereby an occupying of the rear seats becomes possible only when the roof is closed. In order to obtain more constructive freedom in designing the rear seat area and the roof coordinated with the rear seat area, at least one part of the seat arrangement can be displaced from an in-use position which obstructs areas of the storage space of the roof into a not-in-use position which exposes the space for the lowering of the roof.