Convertible motor vehicle roof

US6814391B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Biecker · Oberhaching, DE
• Marco Lauterbach · Kasendorf, DE
• Gerhard Schwarz · Altentreptow, DE
• Fritz Wegener · Stockdorf, DE
• Burkhard Reinsch · Stockdorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 13, 2002
• Grant date: Nov 9, 2004
• Expiry date: Aug 12, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/0053
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A convertible motor vehicle roof with a roof part (12), with a rear part (14) which adjoins the roof part, and with side roof members (10) which are pivotally coupled on both sides to the roof part (12). To open the motor vehicle roof, the rear part (14) together with the roof part (12) and the side roof members (10) can be lowered into a stowage space (22) located in the rear and the side roof members (10) can be swung to the outside before or during lowering into the storage space (22), the swivel bearing means (28) which supports the respective side roof member (10) on the roof part (12) having at least two connecting rods or a connecting rod and a crank guide and being formed especially as a planar four-joint linkage.