Cts Fahrzeug-dachsysteme Gmbh

Lts Fahrzeug-dachsystem Gmbh

Alexander Bernhardt

Andreas Hasselgruber

Thomas Halbweiss

Berthold Klein

Wojciech Wezyk

Lothar Reiff

In a hardtop vehicle roof, which includes a front roof element and a rear roof element comprising side support members and a rear window panel, the front roof element is supported so as to be independently movable from the closed position to a storage position in a storage compartment disposed behind the vehicle roof so as to provide for the vehicle a Targa configuration, the rear window panel is independently movable into the storage compartment to provide for a Landau configuration and the front window is deposited in the storage compartment below the rear window panel while the side support members are retracted into side storage spaces to provide for a cabriolet configuration of the vehicle.

Hardtop vehicle roof movable between closed and open position

In a roof storage compartment cover operating arrangement for a convertible vehicle whose roof is movable between a closed position and a storage position in a storage compartment, a hydraulic operating mechanism for operating the roof storage compartment cover and a force element for applying to the roof storage compartment cover a force in the opening direction are connected to opposite ends of a rocker whose pivoting angle is limited so that the roof storage compartment is opened to a greater degree when operated by the hydraulic operating mechanism than it is when manually opened while the hydraulic operating mechanism is inoperative.

Roof storage compartment cover for a convertible vehicle

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Pforzheim, Germany

Alexander Bernhardt