Vehicle roof having openable roof parts

US7374236B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Magna Car Top Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Striegel · Hamburg, DE
• Berthold Klein · Rutesheim, DE
• Wolfram Salz · Leinfelden, DE
• Waleri Katrini · Dresden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 29, 2006
• Grant date: May 20, 2008
• Expiry date: Sep 29, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/19
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle roof includes a roof opening in a roof skin. First and second roof parts are movable between a closed position in which the parts are arranged flush behind one another within the roof opening to thereby close off the roof opening and in an opened position in which the second part is lowered with respect to the roof skin and the first part extends over the second part to thereby expose the roof opening. A kinematic support mechanism is movable to an extended position in which the mechanism fixes the second part in the closed position and in a retracted position in which the mechanism lowers the second part in the opened position. The first part and the mechanism are connected to one another such that the first part actuates the mechanism between its positions in response to the first part moving between the closed and opened positions.