Folding roof for a convertible

US6270143A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Wilhelm Karmann GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Udo Heselhaus · Ibbenbüren, DE
• Wolfgang Richter · Haar, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 26, 2000
• Grant date: Aug 7, 2001
• Expiry date: Oct 26, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/1265
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A folding top for a convertible has a lateral folding linkage with linkage legs lying opposite to one another in pairs, symmetrically to the longitudinal center plane of the vehicle. The parallelogram links of the linkage legs form a front and a rear four-bar chain, which is supported in the region of a common connecting leg with at least three hinge points. In the case of the inventive folding top, the connector between the two four-bar chains is constructed as a cantilever girder supporting a rear guiding leg of the front four-bar chain as well as a front main guide bar of the rear four-bar chain with a height distance in in each case one of its hinge points and the front four-bar chain with the front link forming the third hinge point is assigned to this cantilever girder.