Patent ID: 7513563

Claim:
On a vehicle having a front edge and a rear edge and comprising a passenger compartment and a body structure comprising front and rear parts, a displaceable roof including a front roof element and a rear roof element both displaceable between a first position in which they cover the passenger compartment and a second position in which the passenger compartment is at least partly exposed, the front roof and rear roof elements being, when they cover the passenger compartment, connected to each other and to respectively said front and rear parts of the body structure through locking means controlled by rigid rods extending along the front and rear roof elements and being driven by controlling means, wherein the rigid rods are constantly connected to each other in pairs from one of the front and rear roof elements to another, as much in the first position as in the second position of said front and rear roof elements, by flexible means transmitting a movement generated by the controlling means between the rigid rods and thus allowing to secure said front and rear roof elements to the body structure of the vehicle, as much in their first as in their second positions.