Locking assembly for releasably locking a vehicle roof

US5839778A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Kurt Schaible · Aidlingen, DE
• Eckart Schuler · Sindelfingen, DE
• Bernhard Schenk · Eppelheim, DE
• Ralf Mertin · Witten, DE
• Gunter Ellenbeck · Gelsenkirchen, DE
• Holger Seel · Aidlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 28, 1996
• Grant date: Nov 24, 1998
• Expiry date: Oct 28, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/198
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A locking arrangement for the releasable fastening of a vehicle roof on an immovable vehicle body which part has at least one hook lock whose locking hook is displaceable between its unlocked and its locked position in the longitudinal direction. A transverse displacement of the hook end takes place during the longitudinal displacement of the locking hook causing the hook end to move between its hooked and unhooked position. Devices are provided which control the transverse displacement of the hook end which have interacting positioning devices arranged on the vehicle roof and on the vehicle body part. The transverse displacement of the hook end is controlled by a slidable guiding of the locking hook.