Operator's control device for a shade arrangement

US7537276B2 · 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: Aug 9, 2005
• Grant date: May 26, 2009
• Expiry date: Aug 9, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J1/2069
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

This arrangement relates to an operating and control means for a shade arrangement, especially for a vehicle roof with a transparent roof surface, the shade arrangement comprising at least one shade with a shade roller and a shade fabric which can be unrolled therefrom by means of an electric actuator against the forms of a return spring assigned to the shade roller, and the shade roller with entrainment of the shade fabric being movable in side guide rails in order to move the shade surface formed by the unrolled shade fabric. As claimed in the invention, the operating means for this shade arrangement comprises a first switch arrangement (56) for setting the size of the shading surface formed by the shade fabric by taking up and unrolling the shade fabric, and a second switch arrangement (58) for moving the shading surface as a whole without changing its size.