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US 2009/0152903 A1Published application
Roof for a motor vehicle
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsMichael Fuchs, Joachim-Günther Loitz, Andreas Rogge
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Abstract
A roof for a motor vehicle incorporating a roof channel has a cage with a slider guided therein in the vicinity of a retaining means for a roof rack. The slider can be displaced in the cage from a position closing the roof rack opening into a position exposing the roof rack opening. In addition, the cage holds a cover strip for the roof channel. The slider and the cage are made from a synthetic material and can be produced and installed in a particularly economical manner.
Claims14
A root for a motor vehicle comprising
- a roof channel;
- a cover strip for covering the roof channel;
- a selectively closable and openable roof rack opening;
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- a retaining means for holding a roof rack arranged in the vicinity of the roof rack opening,
- wherein a cage and a slider are arranged in the roof rack opening, in that the cage is arranged in the vicinity of the retaining means for the roof rack and in that the slider is guided in the cage in longitudinally displaceable manner from a position closing the roof rack opening into a position exposing the roof rack opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.