Patent ID: 8256832

Claim:
A roof module for a motor vehicle, with an inner frame that is connected to a roof with an opening for panorama roof parts that are displaceable in guide rails in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, the roof module comprising: an inner frame with left and right longitudinal frame parts, receiving brackets arranged fixedly in a central region of the frame parts at a distance behind B pillars of the motor vehicle, each of the receiving brackets defining an upwardly open channel with divergent limbs bent to lie in a plane, the channel of the receiving bracket protruding from a lower side of the inner frame and jutting out laterally from an outer longitudinal side of the inner frame, each receiving bracket being connected on an upper side of the inner frame to a reinforcing plate, and a transversely aligned reinforcing support with left and right ends held in the respective receiving brackets of the frame parts of the inner frame, each of receiving brackets being nested with a correspondingly configured formation of the reinforcing support that has an upwardly open channel with divergent limbs bent to lie in a plane.