Ventilation cap for a motor vehicle roof

US6878054B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Joachim J. Klesing · Rochester, US
• Michael Kolbl · Schwanau, DE
• Martin Pollak · Puchheim, DE
• Bernd Schleicher · Hersbruck, DE
• Wolfgang Seifert · Wielenbach, DE
• Helmut Teschner · Landsberg, DE
• Bernhard Vecchioni · Oxford, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 3, 2003
• Grant date: Apr 12, 2005
• Expiry date: Jan 3, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60H1/245
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A ventilation cap (3) for a motor vehicle roof (1) for ventilation of the motor vehicle interior (4) and a roof with such a ventilation cap, in which the ventilation cap (3) is formed to be oblong having an air duct with a front air opening (6) and with a rear air opening (7) which discharge above the motor vehicle roof (1), the air duct being flow-connected to the motor vehicle interior (4) via a flow path which is formed in the ventilation cap (3). The motor vehicle roof (1) is formed preferably as a glass roof with at least two glass surfaces (2a, 2b), on which the ventilation cap (3) is mounted essentially a central longitudinal axis.