Rockwell-golde G.m.b.h.

Arvinmeritor Gmbh

Meritor Automotive Gmbh

Rockwell-golde, a Gesellschaft MIT Beschrankter Haftung

Horst Bohm

Rainer Grimm

Albert Schlapp

Thomas Becher

Dieter Federmann

Karl Schmidhuber

Peter Schafer

Christian Biewer

Harald Kollner

Rainer Hattass

Hubert Bachmann

Wilhelm Scherf

Heinz Blankenburg

Andreas Bendel

Fritz Marr

A guiding system for a moveable sunroof system includes at least one first guide rail for a first vehicular component and at least one second guide rail for a second vehicular component. The first and second guide rails are connected with each other and are tailored to their unique load requirements by employing materials having different properties. Further, the guide rails can be modified independently from one another. If, for instance, the geometry of the second guide rail has requires modification, it is not necessary to modify the entire guiding system. Instead, it is sufficient to modify only the second guide rail to the new requirements. Therefore, portions of the guide rail system may easily be replaced.

Guide rail system for a moveable sunroof system including a sunshade and method of producing a guide rail system for a moveable sunroof system

A sunshade assembly for a vehicle roof has a window shade that is movable along guide rails toward the front and rear of the vehicle. Drive elements are connected to a front edge of the window shade, and rotatable tension wheels are mounted to the guide rail and coupled with the drive elements to pull taut a front portion of the window shade disposed between the front edge and the tension wheels.

Sunshade assembly for a vehicle roof

A roller blind system for a vehicle roof includes a rotatable coiling body and a roller blind that is attached at one end to the coiling body and at the other end to a vehicle portion in a stationary manner. The coiling body is shiftable in a translational motion, allowing the roller blind to uncoil and coil up while minimizing frictional forces on the roller blind.

Roller blind system for a motor vehicle

A vehicle roof module is interlocked releasably yet securely directly with the body frame (), which encompasses an upper body opening, or indirectly with a frame covering () which is fastened to the frame. The interlocking elements () are only accessible from the vehicle interior in order to release the interlock and also only after previously elastically bending over a portion of the inner shell () of the roof module, which covers the locking elements (). The roof module can be easily assembled, dissassembled and also replaced and thus has properties of a hardtop.

Vehicle roof module

A subassembly element in the form of an intermediate product for a multipart cover element for motor vehicles contains at least two subassembly parts, e.g., for a multipart sunroof or sliding roof cover or for a multipart loading zone or cargo space cover, containing edge regions on the adjacent edges of the subassembly parts which are correspondingly shaped such that they had least partially overlap in the closed position. All subassembly parts are present in the form of one connected-together part and are shaped in accordance with the predetermined contour of the cover element. A channel-shaped depression is arranged at least in the outer side of the subassembly element in the edge region in which two respective subassembly parts adjoin one another. The contour of the channel-shaped depression is comprised of the desired contours of the edge regions of adjacent subassembly parts of the respective cover element.

SUBASSEMBLY ELEMENT AS INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT FOR A CLOSURE ELEMENT FOR VEHICLES CONSISTING OF SEVERAL SUBASSEMBLY PARTS, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, MULTIPART CLOSURE ELEMENT FOR VEHICLES CONSTRUCTED FROM THE INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT

The invention relates to an adjusting device for a sunroof ( ) of a vehicle. Said sunroof ( ) is provided with at least two lamellae ( A, B, C). The roof opening ( ) which is to be closed is defined by a base component ( ) that is fixedly mounted to the vehicle and that has opposing side parts ( ). The adjusting device comprises lamellae support elements ( A, B, C), a lamellae carrier slide ( A, B, C) and control means ( A, A; B, B; C, C). A drive slide ( ) is provided which is displaceably arranged in the guiding element ( ) in front of the lamellae carrier slide ( A, B, C). Pivoting means and coupling means are provided for pivoting a lamella and for connecting and separating two slides.

Adjustment device for a multi-spoiler roof for vehicles

In a sun blind for a vehicle roof a sun blind is situated below a panel which is displaceably associated with a roof opening, this blind, when not in use, automatically being wound up on a spool (,) which is mounted roof-side. The blind sheet (,) of the sun blind is guided in a sliding manner using its side edges along guide rails (,) attached laterally in the roof opening. The guide rails (,) and the side edges of the blind sheet (,) are formed in such a manner and engage with one another such that the side edges can be slid easily in the guide rails in the course of opening and closing movements of the sun blind, but cannot be pulled out of the guide rails in a transverse direction to the direction of movement of the blind, whereby the edge areas of the blind sheet are secured against fluttering and vibration movements.

Sunshade for a vehicle

In a glass lid (1) for a vehicle roof opening, the glass pane (2) is provided in its edge zone all around with a cast-on or foamed-on plastics border (3). At least at the longer sides of the glass pane (2), curved correspondingly to the roof curvature, stiffening profiles (4, 5) of steel, supporting the glass pane from below, are embedded into the border (3). The stiffening profiles (4, 5) have, before embedding, a curvature different from that of the glass pane and, in the completed lid (1), are elastically bent corresponding to the curvature of the glass pane so that they are embedded with prestress in the border (3), in order to counteract uplift forces acting upon the lid (1) while the vehicle is travelling, in the sense of maintaining the shape of the lid (1).

Rigid lid for the roof opening of a vehicle

In a folding roof for an automobile, a front hood bar is moved by entraining elements driven by cables, which entraining elements can travel in curved transitions of lateral guide rails and simultaneously in curved control slits of control plates, slidable transversely on the front hood bar. The control slits run partly ascending towards the closure position, in order to create a downward displacement of the front hood bar as the roof is closed and an upward displacement of the hood bar as the roof is opened. The closing of the roof takes place with a continually decreasing speed of movement and continually increasing closure force, without any noticeable feedback effect upon the actuating force to be applied.

Folding roof for an automobile

A rigid cover assembly for a vehicle roof opening which includes a cover plate, a reinforcement frame supporting a lower peripheral edge of the cover plate, and a plastic frame surrounding the cover plate and enclosing the reinforcement frame. A sealing strip is provided on the outer peripheral edge of the plastic frame and includes a slot receiving a rib and fixing elements projecting from an outer edge of the plastic frame. A metal gap compensating element is embedded in the sealing strip outward of the plastic frame and is capable of being permanently deformed in a transverse direction. The sealing strip has a section between the metal gap compensating element and the slot and an outer edge section that is substantially more capable of deformation than the section between the metal gap compensating element and the slot.

Rigid cover for the roof of a vehicle

In a sliding or sliding-lifting roof for a car, a lid, associated with a roof opening for the purpose of completely closing it, has a front edge which is wedge-shaped in cross-section. A sealing profile, sealingly filling the gap between the fixed vehicle roof and the lid when the lid is closed, is pushed from below onto a downward flange of the fixed vehicle roof and is deformable to form a trough, generally complementary in shape to the wedge shape. The wedge-shaped front edge here engages generally form-fittingly and force-transmittingly into the sealing profile, so that the lid, at its front edge due its engagement with the sealing profile, is reliably secured against high uplift forces, such as occur at high speeds of travel.

Sliding or sliding-lifting roof for cars

A rigid lid for a sliding roof or a sliding-lifting roof, the lid having a lid shell, provided with a peripheral 90.degree. cranked edge, is painted separately from the other parts of the roof construction constituting a pre-assembled unit and is not installed until the pre-assembled unit has been installed into the bodywork of the automobile. The lid shell is secured by detent engagement to the reinforcing frame or to a holding frame fixed thereto after positioning and under the action of force from above. The edge gap sealing profile is secured to the reinforcing frame by pushing on from below before the lid shell is fitted.

Rigid lid for a sliding roof or sliding-lifting roof of an automobile

A sliding-lifting roof for an automobile of a very low overall height has, in addition to guide links fixed to the side edges of a lid, control links, which are disposed on each side of the lid and each rigidly connect the front sliding element with a guide element, disposed behind the rear sliding element. The sliding elements and the guide element are slidably guided on the same guide rail. A two-armed control lever is disposed on each side of the lid, which lever engages with a central control pin into the control link, engages at its outer end by a guide pin into the guide link and is articulated at its inner end to the rear sliding element. The lid movements are achieved by a sliding drive of the rear sliding element.

Sliding-lifting roof for automobiles

An air guide device, which is suitable both for sliding roofs and for sliding-lifting roofs, comprises a wind deflector plate, pivotally journalled by hinge assemblies beneath a front, fixed automobile roof, the pivotal movements of which deflector plate are controlled by control members, displaceably driven by the drive system of the sliding lid, which control members for this purpose bear from above on control surfaces formed on the wind deflector plate. The control members do not release the control surfaces until, in the opening displacement of the sliding lid, the latter has opened sufficiently far for the wind deflector plate, subject to the action of springs acting in the upward pivoting direction, to pivot upwards beyond the automobile roof without striking the slid lid. In the reverse movement direction, the control members run onto the control surfaces before the sliding lid has reached its closure position and pivot the wind deflector plate against the force of the springs into the at-rest position of the air guide device.

Air guide device for an automobile roof

In a sliding lifting roof for motor vehicles a water trapping strip is resiliently fixed to a water deflector underpinning the rear marginal gap between a trailing edge of a sliding cover and the rear edge of the roof opening. The water trapping strip is biased by spring tension in the sense of an upward displacement, so that when the sliding cover is open it projects upwards over the rear edge of the roof opening with a splash guard. In the case of braking during forward travel and with the sliding cover open, splashed water from the surface of the rear, fixed vehicle roof is trapped by the splash guard and is passed by the water trapping strip to the underlying water deflector.

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Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany

Horst Bohm