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Patent US5833300 - Vehicle, particularly with a folding roof - Google Patents
A vehicle with mutually moving parts, such as doors and hinged lids or hinged covers, particularly with a foldable roof, has at least one front roof part and one rear roof part. These roof parts are provided with at least one joint connection, which makes an open and a closed position possible, and is...http://www.google.com/patents/US5833300?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5833300 - Vehicle, particularly with a folding roof
Publication number US5833300 A
Application number US 08/863,701
Also published as DE19623036A1, EP0811518A1, EP0811518B1, EP0811518B2
Publication number 08863701, 863701, US 5833300 A, US 5833300A, US-A-5833300, US5833300 A, US5833300A
Inventors Klaus Russke
Vehicle, particularly with a folding roof
US 5833300 A
In the region of its two-part roof, the inventive vehicle has a hinged joint, the individual components of which are combined with a driving device, which can be controlled independently particularly of the driving mechanism for the roof in such a manner, that a directly driven hinged device is formed for moving the roof parts. This hinged device makes possible a pivoting movement of the roof parts over an angle of more than 180° in a very tight space and with components, which can be integrated largely into the vehicle roof, the control of the driving device of the apparatus being synchronized with a roof driving mechanism in the rear of the vehicle in such a manner that, in each phase of the motion in the swiveling points of the hinge parts and at the roof parts, an adjustment of the controlling torque and of the regulating speed, optimum with respect to load, is possible and, with that, a folding process, which is gentle for the material of hardtop roofs as well as for roofs with a regionally flexible roof skin, is attained.
In FIGS. 3 to 6, sectional representations of the vehicle 1 show the two roof parts 3. 4 in side views. Starting out from a closed position of FIG. 3, the respective different motion phases during the folding process of the two roof parts 3, 4 under the action of the driven hinged device 8 become clear. In the open position of FIG. 6, the upper side 14 of the front roof part 3 is shifted towards the upper side 15 of the rear roof part 4. The specially designed construction of the pivoting elements 9 at the inventive hinged device 8 defines a controlled curved path (arrow K in FIG. 12) with a pivoting angle S between the two roof parts 3. 4. This pivoting angle S can be greater than 180° (additional angle S'), so that an approach of the roof parts 3, 4 corresponding to their profiling is possible in the region of the upper sides 14. 15 and a space-saving packed position is attained.
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U.S. Classification 296/108, 16/368, 49/249
Cooperative Classification B60J7/145, Y10T16/5474
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