Motor vehicle roof

US5775769A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Webasto Karosseriesysteme GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Reihl · Starnberg, DE
• Bernhard Wingen · Straubing, DE
• Wolfram Salz · Leinfelden, DE
• Johann Mayer · Wernberg-Köblitz, DE
• Martin Danzl · Hersbruck, DE
• Arpad Furst · Germering, DE
• Thomas Zirbs · Weil der Stadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 1996
• Grant date: Jul 7, 1998
• Expiry date: Apr 1, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/05
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle roof with a cover (3) which can be activated by means of cover mechanism (6) and which selectively closes an opening (2) in a fixed roof surface (1) or at least partially exposes the opening (2) by being raised at its rear edge, achieves increased safety against the cover being forced out to the top and enables the vehicle roof to be configured so as to eliminate height adjustment, by the cover (3) resting in the closed state with both its front edge (4) and its rear edge (5) underlying the fixed roof surface (1). Advantageously, a pretensioning force is exerted by the cover (3) on the fixed roof (1), so that one of these two parts impresses its outline on the other.