Patent ID: 7959209

Claim:
A closure assembly for locking and unlocking a movable roof to and from a vehicle frame, the closure assembly comprising: a locking hook having first and second ends, the first end of the locking hook having a hook section, wherein the locking hook is movable between a locked position in which the hook section is engageable with the vehicle frame and an unlocked position in which the hook section is disengageable from the vehicle frame; an actuator connected to the second end of the locking hook, the actuator linearly movable between a first position in which the actuator causes the locking hook to move to the locked position and a second position in which the actuator causes the locking hook to move to the unlocked position; first and second gears; and first and second levers; wherein the gears are rotatable in a common plane about respective rotational axes and are engaged with one another such that one of the gears rotates in response to the other one of the gears rotating, wherein the first lever is connected at one end to the first gear and is connected at another end to the actuator and the second lever is connected at one end to the second gear and is connected at another end to the actuator, wherein the ends of the levers are connected to the gears and the actuator at respective swivel axes; wherein the levers move as the gears rotate about the rotational axes in response to the first gear rotating in a first rotary direction and thereby cause the actuator to move linearly in a first direction to thereby move the locking hook to the locked position; wherein the levers move as the gears rotate about the rotational axes in response to the first gear rotating in a second opposite rotary direction and thereby cause the actuator to move linearly in a second opposite direction to thereby move the locking hook to the unlocked position.