Wind deflector

US7441834B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• WEBASTO AG · DE

Inventors

• Thorsten Eller · Eckersdorf, DE
• Herbert Wolf · Wooster, US
• Kurt Kugler · Lappersdorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 26, 2005
• Grant date: Oct 28, 2008
• Expiry date: Jul 26, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/22
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A wind deflector for a motor vehicle roof which is movable between a rest position and an operating position, the bearing means containing a spring arrangement which pretensions the wind deflector into the raised operating position. The spring arrangement has a first range of motion of low spring force and a second range of motion of higher spring force, which are assigned to a first adjustment region of the wind deflector out of its raised operating position and a second adjustment region of the wind deflector into its lowered rest position. The wind deflector is lowerable in the range of motion of low spring force by the force of the head wind and in the second range of motion of higher spring force the actuating means with an adjustment force which exceeds the force of the head wind is active for lowering the wind deflector.