Movable roof construction for an open passenger car
AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsBernhard Schenk, Juergen Schrader, Eckart Schuler
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Abstract
A movable roof construction for an open or convertible passenger car with a two-part foldable hardtop. To prevent the occurrence of wind noises in the area of the bordering of the two hardtop parts, a locking mechanism is provided between the two parallelogram control arms on each side of the parallelogram linkage. The locking mechanism is restrictedly coupled by transmission devices to the locking device of the forward roof part on the windshield cross member. Thereby, for a release of the parallelogram control arms, the locking mechanism can be unlocked together with an unlocking of the locking device.
Claims7
A moveable roof construction for a passenger car having a forward, dimensionally stable roof part and a rearward dimensionally stable roof part swivellably disposed about a vehicle-fixed swivelling axis between a closed operative position thereof and an open inoperative position thereof, a parallelogram linkage on each side of the passenger car arranged to displace the forward roof part between a closed operative position thereof and an open inoperative position thereof and having two parallelogram control arms arranged on each side of the passenger car as a fixed component of the rearward roof part, and a locking device for fixing the forward roof part on a windshield cross member of the passenger car, wherein a locking mechanism is operatively arranged between the two parallelogram control arms on each side of the parallelogram linkage, and is coupled via a transmission device to the locking device of the forward roof part on the windshield cross member such that the locking mechanism, for a release of the rearward parallelogram control arm, is unlockable together with an unlocking of the locking device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.