Hardtop vehicle roof with three rigid roof pieces

US7182389B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Magna Car Top Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Gernot Bruder · Karlsruhe, DE
• Marcus Papendorf · Brackenheim, DE
• Peter Netzel · Hamburg, DE
• Thorsten Schumacher · Kummerfeld, DE
• Thomas Halbweiss · Erbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 2, 2003
• Grant date: Feb 27, 2007
• Expiry date: May 28, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/146
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a hardtop vehicle roof with three roof pieces, which can be supported against the chassis, stacked together over the middle section, the front and rear roof pieces of which are jointed to the middle roof piece and can swing together in the same sense over the middle section to lie on the middle section, whereby a common drive is provided for the front and the rear roof piece, which is provided on the middle roof section.