Vehicle roof

US6378936B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Meritor Automotive GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Grimm · Frankfurt, DE
• Carmelo Mondello · Frankfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 28, 2000
• Grant date: Apr 30, 2002
• Expiry date: Sep 28, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R13/0212
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle roof intended in particular for motor vehicles and in particular a roof module (1) to be made separately from the bodywork (5) and to be combined with the bodywork, consisting essentially of a rigid roof skin, where appropriate with an applied foamed inner skin (3) made from plastics foam, and a decorative headliner (12) made from plastics foam. The roof module can be fitted with an integral sliding roof unit. The characteristic feature is that the headliner (12) is made separately from the roof module (1) and can be locked into place on to or released from the inner skin (3) or where appropriate the sliding roof frame of the sliding roof unit by means of complementary exactly fitted interlocking elements (9, 16), i.e. it can be exchanged.