Vehicle sliding sunroof
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsGerhard Fuchs, Paul Gross-Gottschall, Gunter Konlechner
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Abstract
Device for opening/closing an opening in a vehicle roof by means of a transparent sunroof cover on the one hand and an opaque sunscreen cover on the other hand, which covers can be actuated separately from each other in accordance with a manual actuation of a control device, whereby, from a fully open or a fully closed position, the sunscreen cover can be moved first in the opening in each case.
Claims20
A device for opening/closing an opening in a vehicle roof by means of a transparent sunroof cover on the one hand and an opaque sunscreen cover on the other, each of which can be actuated separately from the other as a function of a manual actuation of a control device, wherein, from a fully open or a fully closed position respectively, first the sunscreen cover can be slid in the opening.
A method of opening a vehicle sunroof comprising:
- a transparent sunroof cover which can be actuated as a function of a manual actuation of a control device;
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- an opaque sunscreen cover which can be actuated separately from the transparent sunroof cover as a function of a manual actuation of the control device, the method comprising the steps of:
- from a fully open position of the transparent sunroof cover and the opaque sunscreen covers, the opaque sunscreen cover is activated before the transparent sunroof cover;
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- from a fully closed position of the transparent sunroof cover and the opaque sunscreen covers, the opaque sunscreen cover is activated before the transparent sunroof cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.