Rockwell International Corporation

Rockwell-golde G.m.b.h.

Brigitte Weidmann

Rainer Hattass

Karl Schmidhuber

The air guide surface of a wind deflector for automobile sliding roofs consists of an elastic profile strip, tapering downwards, i.e. continually decreasing in thickness, of a rubber-elastic material, which is fixed to a rigid bar, adapted to the transverse curvature of the roof plate and mounted upwardly sprung on the sliding roof frame. The elastic profile strip bears, in the working position, sealingly against the forward roof opening rim, with the result that an undisturbed and therefore largely noiseless air flow is achieved, even with the sliding lid only slightly open, and even with the wind deflector not completely raised. The inclined position and construction of the elastic profile strip make possible, when the wind deflector is moved into its stowed position, a rolling-up or rolling-in deformation of the elastic profile strip virtually inside the water gutter of the sliding roof frame, so that the stowed space requirement of the wind deflector, particularly as regards height, is very small.

Wind deflector for a sliding roof for a vehicle

A device for limiting the number of revolutions of a shaft for a rotary drive for a sliding-lifting roof of an automobile is proposed. By the cooperation of a detent bolt, actuated by an actuating knob with a spring-loaded blocking pin and with a rotationally driven blocking ring, the shaft is blocked in rotation not only in the lid closure position, but also by a special construction of the blocking ring, in intermediate sliding and/or lifting positions of the sliding lid.

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Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Brigitte Weidmann