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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2000
Werner Pätz, Hofstetten, DE;
Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH, Stockdorf, DE;
Abstract
A cover for a motor vehicle roof has a cover plate, a plastic frame which is foamed or injected around the edge of the cover plate, and that forms an edge gap seal on the outside edge of the plastic frame. The plastic frame on the outside edge has a groove which is open to the bottom and which is bordered to the outside by a lip which forms the edge gap seal and in which there is a plastic insert of a material which is softer than the material of the plastic frame. Further, it is a process for producing one such cover in which the plastic frame is injected or foamed on the edge of the cover plate, optionally with inclusion of the edge area of the reinforcing frame, and in which in the course of injection or foaming the plastic frame or in a subsequent step the plastic insert is placed in the groove of the plastic frame.