Convertible vehicle body
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsTaras Czornyj, Martin Johannsson
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Abstract
A vehicle body includes, but is not limited to a frame and a roof held above the frame so as to be movable between a closed configuration in which it covers a passenger compartment and an open configuration in which the passenger compartment is uncovered. The passenger compartment has at least one door. At least one pair of pillars is mounted to the frame to the rear of the door for supporting the roof in its closed configuration. The roof is adapted to assume an intermediate configuration between its open and closer configurations in which the roof is spaced apart from said pillars.
Claims14
A convertible vehicle body, comprising:
- a passenger compartment delimited by side windows, a movable rear window, two movable rear pillars, which in a closed configuration of the convertible vehicle body fill a gap between the movable rear window and each of the side windows;
- a roof which in the closed configuration covers the passenger compartment;
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- a storage section adapted to receive the roof when the convertible vehicle body is in an open configuration, the convertible vehicle body having a first open configuration in which a position of the movable rear window is essentially the same as in the closed configuration and a second open configuration in which a position of the rear window is lower than in the first open configuration,
- wherein the rear pillars fill the gap between the movable rear window and each of the side windows in the first open configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.