Patent ID: 8807643

Claim:
An assembly supporting movement of a moveable panel relative to an exterior opening defined in a roof of a passenger compartment, comprising: a pair of continuous tracks installed on the roof of the passenger compartment and disposed on opposing sides of the exterior opening, each track including a first channel and a second channel parallel to and separated from said first channel by a guide rib having a first wall disposed in said first channel and a second wall disposed in said second channel wherein said tracks extend from a forward location proximate a forward region of the roof towards a rearward location of a rearward region of the roof wherein said first channel includes a first continuity extending unobstructed from said forward location to said rearward location and said second channel includes a second continuity extending from said from said forward location to said rearward location; a pair of first mechanical linkages coupled to a pair of opposing edges of the moveable panel with said first mechanical linkages moveably coupled to said first channel; a pair of second mechanical linkages coupled to said pair of opposing edges and moveably coupled to both said first channel and said second channel while engaging both said walls of said guide rib; and a first structure disposed in a particular one second channel of said second channels that interrupts said second continuity of said particular one second channel without interrupting said first continuities.