Cabriolet vehicle with a convertible top hatch and a roll bar which can be coupled to it

US6834908B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Burkhard Reinsch · Stockdorf, DE
• Thomas Schütt · Fürstenfeldbruck, DE
• Klaus Dullinger · Neuötting, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 5, 2003
• Grant date: Dec 28, 2004
• Expiry date: Mar 5, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/134
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

For a cabriolet vehicle with a convertible top hatch which can be moved between a cover position and an open position for selectively covering and opening a convertible top compartment and with a roll bar which can be moved between a lowered position and a protective position and which can be coupled to the convertible top hatch for joint movement, a convertible top hatch transmission part is provided which transfers the driving force to the convertible top hatch which can be disengageably coupled to a roll bar movement part that produces movement apparatus of the roll bar so that roll bar is movement can be produced, simultaneously with motion of the convertible top hatch, that is in a different direction from that of the convertible top hatch during at least one segment of the motion of the convertible top hatch.