Patent ID: 7658435

Claim:
A retractable roof of a motor vehicle, said roof including a front element and a rear element that are mounted to be movable between a closed position in which said elements cover the passenger compartment of the vehicle and an open position in which said elements are folded away into the rear trunk of the vehicle, the elements being caused to move by two hinged arms, each of which is hinged firstly to the structure of the vehicle in the vicinity of the front edge of the trunk, and secondly to the front element of the roof, so that the two arms and their respective hinges form a deformable parallelogram, said device further including abutment means carried by the first arm to come into abutment against the second arm when the two roof elements are in a relative position that is close to their closed position, said device being characterized by the fact that the abutment means include resilient means suitable for opposing the relative movement of said arms when said roof elements come from their said relative position that is close to their closed position to their said closed position.