Modular vehicle roof

US6513864B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ArvinMeritor GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Horst Bohm · Frankfurt, DE
• Thomas Becher · McLean, US
• Rainer Grimm · Frankfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 8, 2001
• Grant date: Feb 4, 2003
• Expiry date: Aug 8, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D25/06
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle roof module is proposed, consisting of a transparent roof skin, constituting the outer shell of a sandwich structure, and of an inner shell of the sandwich structure, the special feature thereof being that the inner shell is molded in the manner of a frame and is provided only in the edge area of the outer shell, thereby forming a panoramic transparent surface, a sun-blind being arranged beneath the transparent surface, which is held on the inner shell by elements foamed into the frame-type inner shell.