Patent ID: 7537276

Claim:
A shade arrangement for a vehicle roof with a transparent roof surface, comprising: at least one shade with a shade fabric attached at one end to a shade pull and at an opposite end to a shade roller onto which the shade fabric can be rolled and from which the shade fabric can be unrolled, the shade pull and shade roller being independently movable in side guide rails to set the size and position of a shading surface formed by the shade fabric; and an operating means comprising a first switch arrangement for setting the size of the shading surface by taking up and unrolling the shade fabric of the at least one shade by movement of one of the shade pull and shade roller relative to the other, and a second switch arrangement for setting the position of the shading surface without changing its size by joint movement of the shade pull and shade roller in the same direction wherein, for facilitating control of said movements with one hand, the first switch arrangement comprises a switch which has two operating positions, a first position of which triggers relative movement between the shade pull and shade roller toward each other and a second position of which triggers relative movement between the shade pull and shade roller away from each other, and said second switch arrangement comprises two switches, a first of the two second switches having an operating position for triggering said joint movement of the shade pull and shade roller in a first direction and being located at a side of the first switch arrangement corresponding to said first direction and a second of the two second switches having an operating position for triggering said joint movement of the shade pull and shade roller in an opposite second direction and being located at an opposite side of the first switch arrangement from the first of the two said second switches.