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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jean Marc Guillez, Cirieres, FR;
Assignee:
France Design, Cerisay, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
296136 ; 29610708 ;
Abstract
A device opens and closes the trunk lid and the rear crossmember of a convertible vehicle having a foldable hard top to enable the hard top to be moved into the trunk and removed therefrom. The trunk lid opens by rotation from the front towards the rear. The opening and closing device rotates the rear crossmember forwards and downwards on rotation on the trunk lid from the front towards the rear and rearwards and upwards when the trunk lid rotates in the opposite direction.