Folding top for vehicles, in particular passenger cars

US6595572B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CTS Fahrzeug-Dachsysteme GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Eckart Schuler · Sindelfingen, DE
• Stefan Orth · Weil der Stadt, DE
• Holger Roder · Eislingen/Fils, DE
• Harald Bergerhoff · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 13, 2000
• Grant date: Jul 22, 2003
• Expiry date: Dec 13, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/208
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a folding top for vehicles, in particular passenger cars, it is proposed to assign to the folding top, between its closing position and its put-away position, an intermediate position in which the folding top assumes a folded-together stowage position, from which the folding top can be transferred as a stack into the put-away position or can be unfolded into the closing position.