Vehicle open roof apparatus
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorNaoyuki Tezuka
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Abstract
An open roof apparatus includes a link lock mechanism for fastening a swinging distal end portion of a link mechanism to a rear portion of a vehicle body when a roof is moved into a stored position. When the roof is moved into the stored position, the link mechanism supports the vehicle body between a portion to which a swinging proximal portion of the link mechanism is mounted and the rear portion of the vehicle body to which the swinging distal end portion is fastened.
Claims4
A vehicle open roof apparatus which permits a roof covering a top of a passenger compartment to be stored in a storage compartment at a vehicle rear portion, the open roof apparatus comprising:
- at least one link mechanism swingably mounted to a vehicle body of the vehicle to permit the roof to move between an extended position in which the roof is extended over the top of the vehicle and a stored position in which the roof is stored in the storage compartment;
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- at least one link lock mechanism for fastening a swinging distal end portion of the link mechanism to a rear end portion of the vehicle body when the roof is moved into the stored position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.