Motor vehicle with a lowerable roof construction
AssigneeMercedes-Benz AG
InventorsGuenter Gmeiner, Arno Jambor, Guenther Ellenrieder, Dieter Guertler, Oliver Wagner, Roland Wendler
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Abstract
A motor vehicle with a lowerable roof construction, particularly a convertible sports car, has a roof part and a rear part as well as a forced control device for controlling the relative movement of the roof part with respect to the rear part. The forced control device has at least one control element which is connected in the region of the roof swivel axis in a rotationally fixed manner to the roof part and interacts with at least one further control element which is fixed to the body of the vehicle and is in the region of the rear swivel axis.
Claims10
A motor vehicle with a lowerable roof construction having at least a roof part and a rear part, as well as a roof swivel axis and a rear swivel axis, the rear swivel axis being fixed to the vehicle, comprising:
- a forced control device for pivoting said roof part about said roof swivel axis in a predetermined manner of movement with respect to said rear part, said rear part being pivotable about said rear swivel axis,
- wherein said forced control device comprises a first control element connected in a rotationally fixed manner to said roof part near said roof swivel axis, and a second control element which is fixed to the vehicle near said rear swivel axis, said first and second control elements interacting together to control said predetermined manner of movement, and
- further comprising two swivelling side parts of the roof construction located on the sides of the vehicle, said two side parts being swivelled transversely with respect to the motor vehicle and being lowerable together with the roof construction, via swivel arms each of which is fastened at one end to a respective side part and on another end to the pivoting movement of the rear part of the roof construction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.