Solar cover for a motor vehicle roof and a process for its manufacture

US6517148B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 19, 2000
• Grant date: Feb 11, 2003
• Expiry date: Jun 19, 2020

Classification

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

Abstract

A solar cover for a motor vehicle roof, which is provided with an outside transparent cover plate (12) and an inside cover (14) between which at least one solar cell (18) is embedded, an electrical contact (28) from which the solar current from the at least one solar cell is directed to the motor vehicle, and an electrical connector element which produces electrical contact between the at least one solar cell and the contact is embedded between the cover plate and the cover. The contact (28) is located in the horizontal direction outside of the area of the cover plate (12) which is covered by the cover (14) and the electrical connector (26) extends in the horizontal direction beyond the area covered by the cover to the contact.