Patent ID: 8500193

Claim:
A vehicle roof with at least one cover element that optionally closes or at least partially opens up a roof opening and has a carrier element on two sides of a longitudinal center plane of the vehicle, the carrier element comprising a guide web that interacts with a displacement device that is guided in a guide rail and comprises a drive carriage, which interacts with the guide web at least to pivot the cover element and comprises a guide element on which the guide web rests, wherein, as the cover element moves in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, each guide element of the drive carriage serves as a carry-along element that engages in a corresponding carry-along recess formed on the respectively assigned carrier element of the cover element, wherein each carry-along recess has a front boundary surface and a rear boundary surface, each said boundary surface being inclined upwardly in a rear direction of the vehicle to ensure a positionally precise entry and exit of the respective guide element of the respective drive carriage into and out of the respective carry-along recess.