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US 12,594,820 B2Granted
Vehicle body roof structure
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsJi Won Chang, Yujeong Kim, Inbum Lee, Sunki Choi
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Abstract
An embodiment roof structure for a vehicle body includes a roof side body disposed on both sides of the vehicle body and including a side closed section along a length direction of the vehicle body, a roof ring assembly mounted inside the roof side body and including a reinforcement closed section adjacent to the side closed section along the length direction of the vehicle body, a moving guide portion mounted to the roof ring assembly, and a moving roof detachably mounted on the roof ring assembly and configured to be slidable along the moving guide portion.
Claims18
A roof structure for a vehicle body, the roof structure comprising:
- a roof side body disposed on both sides of the vehicle body and comprising a side closed section along a length direction of the vehicle body;
- a roof ring assembly mounted inside the roof side body and comprising a reinforcement closed section adjacent to the side closed section along the length direction of the vehicle body;
- a moving guide portion mounted to the roof ring assembly, wherein the moving guide portion comprises a side rail mounted to the roof ring assembly on both sides of the vehicle body along the length direction of the vehicle body and wherein the roof ring assembly comprises a ring assembly upper panel on which the side rail is mounted;
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- a moving roof detachably mounted on the roof ring assembly and configured to be slidable along the moving guide portion;
- wherein the ring assembly upper panel comprises:
- an upper panel outer flange connected to the roof side body;
- an upper panel outer rail mount surface on which the side rail is mounted;
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- an upper panel bottom surface curved on the upper panel outer rail mount surface.
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A roof structure for a vehicle body, the roof structure comprising:
- a roof side body disposed on both sides of the vehicle body and comprising a side closed section along a length direction of the vehicle body;
- a roof ring assembly mounted inside the roof side body and comprising:
- a reinforcement closed section adjacent to the side closed section along the length direction of the vehicle body;
- a ring assembly side portion disposed on both sides of the vehicle body along the roof side body;
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- a ring assembly center portion disposed inside the ring assembly side portion along the length direction of the vehicle body;
- a moving guide portion mounted to the roof ring assembly;
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- a moving roof detachably mounted on the roof ring assembly and configured to be slidable along the moving guide portion;
- wherein the moving guide portion comprises a side rail mounted on the ring assembly side portion on both sides of the vehicle body along the length direction of the vehicle body and two center rails mounted on the ring assembly center portion along the length direction of the vehicle body;
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- wherein the roof ring assembly comprises a ring assembly upper panel on which the side rail and the center rails are mounted;
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- wherein the ring assembly upper panel comprises:
- an upper panel outer flange coupled to the roof side body;
- an upper panel outer rail mount surface on which the side rail is mounted;
- an upper panel center rail mount surface on which the center rails are mounted;
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- an upper panel bottom surface curved on the upper panel outer rail mount surface and the upper panel center rail mount surface.
16 more elements
A roof structure for a vehicle body, the roof structure comprising:
- a roof side body disposed on both sides of the vehicle body and comprising a side closed section along a length direction of the vehicle body;
- a roof ring assembly mounted inside the roof side body and comprising a reinforcement closed section adjacent to the side closed section along the length direction of the vehicle body;
- a moving guide portion mounted to the roof ring assembly;
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- a moving roof detachably mounted on the roof ring assembly and configured to be slidable along the moving guide portion;
- wherein the moving guide portion comprises a side rail mounted to the roof ring assembly on both sides of the vehicle body along the length direction of the vehicle body and the roof ring assembly comprises a ring assembly upper panel on which the side rail is mounted;
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- wherein the moving guide portion comprises an outer sliding link disposed on both sides of the vehicle body, respectively, and a side rail bearing connected to an outside of the outer sliding link and movably mounted along the side rail.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.