Motor vehicle body

US9073410B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC · US

Inventors

• Baptiste Bruant · Mainz, DE
• Ralf Meyer · Büttelborn, DE
• Simon Gross · Zürich, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 2013
• Grant date: Jul 7, 2015
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/028
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Above a belt line, a motor vehicle body exhibits a windshield segment, a rear segment and a roof segment that is connected with the rear segment so that it can be displaced in a displacement direction, which in a first configuration bridges an intermediate space between the windshield segment and rear segment, and in a second configuration overlaps the rear segment. The roof segment can be swiveled out of the first configuration around a roof segment axis into an intermediate position, in which a rear edge of the roof segment extends under a front edge of the rear segment without any overlap in the displacement direction.