Ventilating device for a roof opening of vehicles

A ventilating device for a roof opening of a vehicle, comprising a pair of guide rails provided at opposite sides of the roof opening, a cover mounted on the guide rails by slide members and slidingly movable forward or backward for opening or closing the roof opening, drive means for slidingly moving the slide members through displacement of a pair of drive cables, a tilting assembly provided between the cover and the slide members and operable by the sliding movement of the slide members to shift the cover from a position closing the roof opening to a tilted-up position by tilting up the cover about a front portion thereof, a frame provided under the roof, and an aperture formed in the frame at a location under the roof opening that is openable or closable by panel means, wherein the drive cables are operably associated with the panel means in a manner partially opening the aperture when the cover is in said tilted-up position, wherein said panel means is provided with entrainment means positioned on said panel means at a location within the path of movement of the drive cables so as to be engaged by an end portion of the drive cables, said entrainment means and the end portion of the drive cables thereby forming a means for shifting of at least a part of said panel means in response to displacement of said cover from the closing position to said tilted-up position.

In a ventilating device for a roof opening of a vehicle of the type having a cover mounted for closing the roof opening, means for displacing the cover from a position closing the roof opening to positions for opening the roof opening by sliding movement and for opening the roof opening by tilting movement and panel means mounted under said cover for closing an aperture disposed under said roof opening, the improvement wherein means for automatically shifting at least a portion of the panel means from a position wherein said aperture is closed to a position wherein said aperture is closed to a position partially opening the aperture during said tilting movement of the cover is provided, and wherein at least a portion of the panel means is also displaceable to positions opening said aperture when said cover is closed and further opening said aperture when said cover is tilted up independent of the position of said cover.

A ventilating device for a roof opening of a vehicle having a cover mounted for closing the roof opening, means for opening the roof opening by upward tilting movement of the cover, a panel mounted under said cover for sliding movement relative to the cover in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and for closing, in a forward end position thereof, an aperture disposed under said roof opening, and means for automatically rearwardly sliding the panel from a position wherein said aperture is closed to a position partially opening the aperture during said upward tilting movement of the cover.