Patent ID: 7334835
Filing Date: 2008-02-26
Classification: B60J

Abstract:
1. A folding roof for a vehicle having a roof opening, the folding roof comprising: stationary guide rails on either side of the roof opening, wherein the guide rails comprise counter elements; a flexible liner; a drivable operating beam on the opening side of said liner, which operating beam is guided in said guide rails for selectively opening and closing the roof opening; slides which are guided in said guide rails, wherein the slides comprise locking elements and unlocking elements; a number of folding elements, which support said liner and which define a folding movement thereof upon opening of the folding roof, which folding elements are mounted on the slides; and wherein said counter elements are positioned at such locations that the locking elements can come into engagement with the counter elements in a frontmost position of each of the slides, whereas the unlocking elements unlock the locking elements of the next slide, seen in the opening direction, when the folding roof is being opened, and wherein each locking element, when unlocked from the respective counter element in the guide rail and moved away from it, lock the co-operating unlocking element to an adjacent slide so as to lock successive slides to each other in opened positions of the folding roof.