Meritor Automotive Gmbh

Rockwell International Corporation

Klaus Stallfort

Dieter Federmann

Rainer Hattass

A guide link for a slide-and-lift sunroof construction for motor vehicles has a guide slot area, whose slot width is constricted by a resilient or resiliently supported slot wall so that the guide pin inserted into this slot area is subject to increased, movement-impeding friction in the manner of a friction brake.

Guide link for sliding panels in slide-and-lift sunroof constructions

A control configuration for a vehicle sunroof panel which is adjustable by means of drive cables, whereby the transmission of jolts and vibrations from the drive elements to the panel and vice versa is damped or prevented by the intermediate elastic damping element between the driver elements engaging with the drive cable and guide shoes controlling the movements of the panel. The elastic damping element preferably is a rubber block that is secured to the driver elements such that vibrations and jolts are at least partially absorbed by the rubber block.

Control assembly for sunroofs for vehicles

A lining panel for a vehicle sliding roof the panel being formed as two parts namely a lining frame covered with a flexible, air-permeable sheet material, and a stiff lining plate. The lining plate constructed basically as a closed spatial structure, is disposed underneath the covered lining frame and can have, on its lower face material structure and/or colour corresponding to that of the vehicles main roof lining. The lining frame and lining plate are mounted displaceable relative to each other, so that the lining plate can be slid open towards the rear to allow light entry through a closed glass sliding lid independently of the sunshield formed by the lining frame covered by the sheet material.

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Maintal, Germany

Klaus Stallfort