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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2009
Craig T Marx, Washington, MI (US);
James D Sahlaney, Eastpointe, MI (US);
Randall W Budnick, Shelby Township, MI (US);
Lisa Marie Pomeroy, Macomb, MI (US);
Steven H Klotz, Commerce Township, MI (US);
Thomas Murray, Columbiaville, MI (US);
Michael J Mcisaac, Chesterfield Township, MI (US);
Joachim Juergen Gernot Klesing, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Craig T Marx, Washington, MI (US);
James D Sahlaney, Eastpointe, MI (US);
Randall W Budnick, Shelby Township, MI (US);
Lisa Marie Pomeroy, Macomb, MI (US);
Steven H Klotz, Commerce Township, MI (US);
Thomas Murray, Columbiaville, MI (US);
Michael J McIsaac, Chesterfield Township, MI (US);
Joachim Juergen Gernot Klesing, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Webasto AG, Stockdorf, DE;
Abstract
A sunroof assembly with a composite water management assembly having side rails with a water trough connected at one end to end caps and to a pair of corners at the other, which connect to a front rail at substantially right angles to the side rails. This composite assembly can be connected by vibration welding. A reinforcement bar can be connected at substantially right angles to the rearward end of vertically oriented slide tracks snap fitted into substantially the length of the side rails. A pair of mirror slide mechanisms with vertically oriented mounts are retained, but free to slide, within a channel of the slide track and outboard of the water trough. A movable panel such as a glass sunroof are attached to the slide mechanism. A sunshade can be added that also combines water shedding ribs to channel water to the water trough.