Dr. Ing. H.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft

Dieter Bauer

Kurt Pfertner

Reiner Armbruster

Matthias Aydt

Wolfgang Moebius

Hans Droste

Herbert May

A folding top for a convertible has a folding top linkage and a folding top covering carried by the folding top linkage. The folding top covering comprises at least one folding top material segment. For reducing or saving the connecting seams and the sealing measures, at least one folding top material segment is shaped by thermal deformation to a three-dimensional shape adapted to the contour of the folding top.

Folding top for a convertible

A latch for a top of an automobile has a housing mounted on the top with a movable latching hook cooperating with a link mounted on the windshield frame. The latching hook is displaceable by an actuating device from a closed position into an open position. To produce a latch which forms a compact module, takes up little space in the transverse vehicle direction, and whose latching hook is movable by a motor, the motorized actuating device for the latching hook has a drive motor aligned approximately parallel to the lengthwise direction of the latching hook. The motor is in an operating relationship through a transverse transmission element and a downstream transmission with a drive lever to move the latching hook.

Latch for a top of a vehicle, especially an automobile

A folding top for a vehicle, particularly a passenger car, has a folding top structure and a folding top covering, in which case a large-surface forward folding top section is connected on its two longitudinal sides in each case by way of two control arms with folding top bearings and on laterally exterior areas of the dimensionally stable folding top section and on at least one control arm of each longitudinal side of the vehicle, roof frame sections are provided for fastening the folding top covering and sealing bodies. So that, in its sunk, rear-side deposited position, the folding top linkage requires as little space as possible, particularly in the vertical direction, it is provided that frame sections are provided on both control arms of the folding top structure in roof areas, in which case the roof frame sections of the forward folding top section and the roof frame sections of the control arms, in the closed position of the folding top, form a three-piece lateral roof frame which is mutually adjoined to be flush with the shell.

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Leonberg, Germany

Dieter Bauer