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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2000
Werner Pätz, Hofstetten, DE;
Thomas Ganz, Stockdorf, DE;
Helmut Teschner, Finning, DE;
Reinhard Wecker, Eichenau, DE;
Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH, Stockdorf, DE;
Abstract
A motor vehicle roof with a solar generator which is securely attached on the outside on the solid roof skin for producing solar current for the vehicle. The solar generator can be adjusted between a first spatially compact configuration and a second, less spatially compact configuration in which its active solar surface projected onto the plane of the roof is larger than in the first configuration. The invention also relates to a motor vehicle roof with an attachment element which runs in the lengthwise direction of the roof and which is mounted externally on the solid roof skin and which is made such that a mobile flat solar generator can be pushed into the attachment element and is held in the working configuration by it to produce solar current.