Vehicle roof comprising a roller blind system

US7469960B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• WEBASTO AG · DE

Inventors

• Michael Koelbl · Schwanau, DE
• Wolfgang Suess · Bremen, DE
• Horst-Martin Schulz · Weil, DE
• Karin Langguth · Gauting, DE
• Michaela Nowak · Munich, DE
• Thomas Rudolph · Rosbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 20, 2005
• Grant date: Dec 30, 2008
• Expiry date: Jun 9, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/0015
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle roof with an at least partially transparent roof section (10) and a shade arrangement (12) located underneath the transparent roof section. In one of three embodiments, with two take-up shafts (16, 18) located in succession in the lengthwise direction of the roof and a length of shade (14) which extends in between, and the front end of the length of shade can be taken up onto the front take-up shaft and the back end onto the rear take-up shaft, the two take-up shafts each being pre-tensioned in the take-up direction, the two take-up shafts being movable along one laterally arranged guide in the lengthwise direction of the roof, and there being a common drive (70, 72, 74, 76) in order to move the take-up shafts (16, 18) in opposite directions toward one another in the lengthwise direction of the roof.