Suzuki Motor Corporation

Suzuki Motor Company

Minoru Araki

Takayuki Souma

Akira Furukawa

Hideyuki Genma

In a roof retractable type vehicle including a roof storage area, a roof storage mechanism for storing a roof, and a tonneau cover for opening and closing the roof storage area, the tonneau cover is connected to the vehicle body side via a mechanism in which the front end of the tonneau cover moves frontward and upward from the closed position and the rear end of the tonneau cover moves frontward, and the tonneau cover is retracted in an inclined posture to the front of the roof storage area. The tonneau cover includes a central member positioned in the center in the vehicle width direction and side members adjacent to both sides of the central member, and the side members and are connected swingably to the central member so that the side members can be retracted to the center side in the vehicle width direction.

Roof retractable type vehicle

Automobile windows on both sides of the vehicle are curved inwardly and arcuately toward the top of the compartment and are made separate from the doors and slidably abutted at least at the front edges on the support frame for the windshield, at least either of the side windows being made openable by sliding them upwardly. When opened, they are accommodated in recesses formed for that purpose in the roof that covers a middle part of the ceiling space above the car body. Alternatively, the windows extend toward each other until their upper edges overlap along the central longitudinal line of the ceiling space above the car body, the windows being made slidable relative to each other, one over the other in a superposed relation, so that either window, when opened, is partly or fully superposed, as desired, parallelly over or under the other.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Minoru Araki