Webasto Karosseriesysteme Gmbh

Webasto Vehicle Systems International Gmbh

Roland Wittal

Horst Bienert

Stjepan Radmanic

Thomas Staltmayer

G&uuml;nther Schwanitz

Kurt Kugler

George Kohlpaintner

Manfred Nowak

A sliding headliner for a motor vehicle roof with a headliner plate ( ) and reinforcements attached to it. The headliner is provided with reinforcements, such as belts. ( ) which run preferably above the headliner plate ( ), which are separate from the headliner and its sliding elements ( ), and which laterally engage roof-mounted guides when upwardly loaded.

Sliding headliner for a motor vehicle roof with a headliner plate protected against ejection

A guide crank for the cover of an openable motor vehicle roof comprises a crank body connected to the cover and including at least one slotted opening. The opening itself either forms a guideway or is used as the receiver of a guide body which has a guideway. At least one stiffening element is provided for bridging the opening at least in one partial area and joining the material areas of the crank body to one another on either side of the opening. The stiffening element makes the guide crank economical with high stiffness and with low material thickness and narrow crosspieces above and below the opening.

Guide crank

An openable vehicle roof with a cover, by which a roof opening can be alternately closed or at least partially opened. By a flexible screen, a visible gap on each lateral side, resulting from the pivoting out of the cover above a fixed roof panel, is covered. The top end of the screen is connected to the cover near a respective side edge of the cover, and its bottom end is supported to slide lengthwise in a guideway connected to the fixed roof panel. By the construction of the screen, a simple installation and a space-saving arrangement is made possible.

Openable vehicle roof with a flexible screen to cover a visible gap on

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Munich, Germany

Roland Wittal