Openable motor vehicle roof with adjustable headliner part

US6309013A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH · DE
• AUDI AG · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Staltmayer · Gauting, DE
• Engelbert Hirschvogel · Stockdorf, DE
• Gunther Schwanitz · Waldshut-Tiengen, DE
• Martin Danzl · Hersbruck, DE
• Robert Werner · Fayetteville, US
• Siegfried Betz · Wettstetten, DE
• Erik Hilfrich · Düsseldorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 30, 2001
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/022
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle roof with a cover (14) which has a closed position in which it closes a roof opening (12) in a fixed roof skin (10), and which can be raised for ventilation purposes, and with an adjustable headliner part (16, 116) which can be both moved from a closed position in which it blocks viewing of the cover from the motor vehicle interior (18) and an open position in which it exposes the roof opening or the cover. The headliner can also be raised with the cover to increase the ventilation function. A coupling mechanism is provided for coupling the headliner to the cover for entraining the headliner to rise with the cover but is disengageable for uncoupling of the headliner part from the cover for enabling longitudinal movement of the headliner relative to the cover into said at least one pushed-back position. Engagement and disengagement the coupling mechanism can be position dependent or can be manually actuated.