Roller blind system for a vehicle roof

US7665793B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• WEBASTO AG · DE

Inventors

• Norbert Elbs · Munich, DE
• Horst-Martin Schulz · Weil, DE
• Thomas Stemmer · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 20, 2005
• Grant date: Feb 23, 2010
• Expiry date: Dec 27, 2026

Classification

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

Abstract

A shade system for a motor vehicle roof, with at least one first and one second shade arrangement which are arranged in line with one another in the lengthwise direction of the roof and each have a take-up shaft, a shade on which can be taken up thereon, and a pull which acts on the free end of the shade, and at least one compressively stiff drive cable which is driven by a drive and which is securely coupled at a first location to the pull of the first shade arrangement. The drive cable is securely coupled at a second point to the pull of the second shade arrangement in a first segment of motion of the second point and in a subsequent second segment of motion of the second point is decoupled from the pull of the second shade arrangement, the coupling or decoupling taking place automatically a locking element.