Solar motor vehicle roof

US6331031A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Werner Patz · Freising, DE
• Thomas Ganz · Bergen, DE
• Helmut Teschner · Landsberg, DE
• Reinhard Wecker · Eichenau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 7, 2000
• Grant date: Dec 18, 2001
• Expiry date: Aug 7, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/90
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle roof with a closure element (14) for a roof opening (12) which can be displaced between a closed position and an open position and which is provided with a primary solar generator (24). The closure element (14) is made such that an additional element (32) which has an additional solar generator (34) can be coupled to the closure element in the open position of the closure element, such that the additional element assumes a working position on the outside of the vehicle to generate solar current.