Latch for a top of a vehicle, especially an automobile

US6158786A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG · DE

Inventors

• Hans Droste · Leonberg, DE
• Dieter Bauer · Munich, DE
• Wolfgang Moebius · Stuttgart, DE
• Reiner Armbruster · Rochlitz, DE
• Kurt Pfertner · Wimsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 21, 1998
• Grant date: Dec 12, 2000
• Expiry date: May 21, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T292/1082
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A latch for a top of an automobile has a housing mounted on the top with a movable latching hook cooperating with a link mounted on the windshield frame. The latching hook is displaceable by an actuating device from a closed position into an open position. To produce a latch which forms a compact module, takes up little space in the transverse vehicle direction, and whose latching hook is movable by a motor, the motorized actuating device for the latching hook has a drive motor aligned approximately parallel to the lengthwise direction of the latching hook. The motor is in an operating relationship through a transverse transmission element and a downstream transmission with a drive lever to move the latching hook.