Removable vehicle roof

US6811205B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CTS Fahrzeug-Dachsysteme GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfram Salz · Leinfelden, DE
• Gernot Bruder · Karlsruhe, DE
• Markus Papendorf · Besigheim, DE
• Andreas Hasselgruber · Lambach, DE
• Matthias Rosler · Stuttgart, DE
• Frank Bertz · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 8, 2003
• Grant date: Nov 2, 2004
• Expiry date: Nov 8, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/1265
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a removable vehicle roof supported by way of an operating mechanism on a vehicle body for movement between a closed position, in which the vehicle roof covers an interior vehicle space and a storage position in which the roof is deposited in a vehicle storage compartment, a spring element is supported on the vehicle body and connected to the roof operating mechanism in such a way as to bias the operating mechanism in each of the two end positions of the roof in a direction toward the other end position so as to facilitate movement of the vehicle roof out of each end position.