Patent ID: 7823965

Claim:
A wind deflector for a roof opening of a roof of a vehicle, which roof opening can be closed and can be partially opened up by a movable roof part, comprising a glass element that forms a roof edge of the roof opening and/or part of the roof, a connecting element fastened to a lower side of an edge section of the glass element, the lower side of the edge section facing the passenger compartment, the connecting element comprising a polyurethane foam encapsulation defining a groove and a seal having an engagement element disposed in the groove, thereby attaching the seal to the polyurethane foam encapsulation; a deployment element that can be displaced with respect to the glass element between a retracted position and a deployed position, and a stretchable deflector element having an upper edge section that is disposed adjacent to an upper edge of the deflector element and a lower edge section that is disposed adjacent to a lower edge of the deflector element, the upper edge section of the deflector element being fastened to the deployment element, and a portion of the lower edge section of the deflector element being fastened in the polyurethane foam encapsulation of the connecting element at a location that is disposed in a common horizontal plane with the seal such that the lower edge section of the deflector element bears flush against the polyurethane foam encapsulation and the seal when the deployment element is in the deployed position.