Webasto Ag

Karin Langguth

Thomas Rudolph

Michael Koelbl

Horst-Martin Schulz

Wolfgang Suess

Michaela Nowak

This arrangement relates to an operating and control means for a shade arrangement, especially for a vehicle roof with a transparent roof surface, the shade arrangement comprising at least one shade with a shade roller and a shade fabric which can be unrolled therefrom by means of an electric actuator against the forms of a return spring assigned to the shade roller, and the shade roller with entrainment of the shade fabric being movable in side guide rails in order to move the shade surface formed by the unrolled shade fabric. As claimed in the invention, the operating means for this shade arrangement comprises a first switch arrangement () for setting the size of the shading surface formed by the shade fabric by taking up and unrolling the shade fabric, and a second switch arrangement () for moving the shading surface as a whole without changing its size.

Operator's control device for a shade arrangement

A motor vehicle roof with an at least partially transparent roof section () and a shade arrangement () located underneath the transparent roof section. In one of three embodiments, with two take-up shafts () located in succession in the lengthwise direction of the roof and a length of shade () which extends in between, and the front end of the length of shade can be taken up onto the front take-up shaft and the back end onto the rear take-up shaft, the two take-up shafts each being pre-tensioned in the take-up direction, the two take-up shafts being movable along one laterally arranged guide in the lengthwise direction of the roof, and there being a common drive () in order to move the take-up shafts () in opposite directions toward one another in the lengthwise direction of the roof.

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Gauting, Germany

Karin Langguth