Hard-top vehicle

US5746470A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Holger Seel · Aidlingen, DE
• Kurt Schaible · Aidlingen, DE
• Bernhard Schenk · Eppelheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 1995
• Grant date: May 5, 1998
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/145
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A hard-top vehicle is provided with a roof structure which includes a roof part and a rear-window part connected pivotably thereto. The roof structure is lowered from a closed position, in which it bears in the region of a front windscreen frame and covers the rear-passenger-compartment region, into an open position, towards the tail-end region of the vehicle, via a positive-control device. The positive control device is supported in the tail-end region of the vehicle bodywork and can be pivoted about a tail-end pivot pin fixed to the vehicle, into a folding-top compartment. The positive-control device includes at least one control element which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the roof part in the region of a roof pivot pin. In this arrangement, the control element is designed as a linkage which acts on a guide part, in the region of the roof pivot pin, with a guide rod and a main guide rod.