Webasto Karosseriesysteme Gmbh

Wolfram Salz

Bernhard Wingen

Peter Reihl

Johann Mayer

Burkhard Reinsch

Martin Danzl

Arpad Furst

Thomas Zirbs

Vehicle roof with cover strips for closing or exposing of a roof opening, the strips bordering one another in the closed position and forming a planar integrated system of strips, each cover strip having a respective pivoting attachment element which is guided along a guideway attached to the roof, adjacent attachment elements being coupled for joint movement in the opening and closing direction, as long as they are not fully swung out, and being decoupled as soon as one of the two has reached its fully swung-out position. In the decoupled state, the adjacent attachment elements engage one another so that they can be moved against one another while the not yet fully swung-out attachment element is being swung out. The rearmost cover strip engages a guide element, such that it can be moved relative to it along a fixed path. The guide element is attached securely to the roof and the adjustment path of the rearmost cover strip relative to the guide element is made such that this strip can be automatically displaced by an adjustment movement relative to the guide element fixed on the roof, between the closed position and a swung-out position.

Vehicle roof with a series of raisable cover strips

A motor vehicle roof with a cover (3) which can be activated by means of cover mechanism (6) and which selectively closes an opening (2) in a fixed roof surface (1) or at least partially exposes the opening (2) by being raised at its rear edge, achieves increased safety against the cover being forced out to the top and enables the vehicle roof to be configured so as to eliminate height adjustment, by the cover (3) resting in the closed state with both its front edge (4) and its rear edge (5) underlying the fixed roof surface (1). Advantageously, a pretensioning force is exerted by the cover (3) on the fixed roof (1), so that one of these two parts impresses its outline on the other.

Motor vehicle roof

Vehicle roof with plates to close or open a roof opening, in which the plates, in the closed position, form a panel of plates, and they are guided at each lateral side of the roof on two guides along guide devices fixed to the roof, so that the panel of plates, by pivoting individual plates, is released plate by plate when the roof is being opened or is restored when closing the roof. Slidable bearing units are provided along a common guide track in which, in each case, the rear guide of one of the plates and the forward guide of the next plate are supported and which thus, by the plates themselves or by plate carders, are interlocked with one another. The beating units are provided with a blocking device that is controlled depending on movement of the panel of plates and that releases the rear guide of the associated plate for a pivoting movement when the roof is being opened, or when the roof is being closed, interlocks with the bearing unit when the beating unit reaches a predetermined position with respect to the fixed guide device.

Vehicle roof with a series of plates

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Wolfram Salz