Convertible top arrangement

US6485085B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Edscha Cabrio-Verdecksysteme GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Walter Pecho · Ringelai, DE
• Georg Kopp · Uhwiesen, CH
• Klaus Obendiek · Passau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 25, 2000
• Grant date: Nov 26, 2002
• Expiry date: Aug 25, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J1/1823
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a convertible top arrangement for a vehicle, comprising a top mechanism, which actuates a convertible top and is arranged on a body of the vehicle, a rear window, which is designed to close an aperture in the convertible top when the top mechanism is closed, a rear-window mechanism arranged outside the top mechanism engaging on the rear window and on the body, the rear-window mechanism of the rear window being capable of being lowered outside the convertible top, thereby freeing the aperture, and raised against the convertible top, thereby closing the aperture, wherein the rear-window mechanism is designed as a double four-joint system that can be folded up in a Z shape.