Patent ID: 7296851

Claim:
A vehicle roof, comprising an opening roof panel, which can be moved from a first, closed roof position into a second, fully opened roof position, the roof panel being held parallel to the rest of the vehicle roof and at a distance from the rest of the vehicle roof in the second roof position; a lateral guide, the roof panel being guided at least during a part of an opening movement on the guide; a third, partially opened roof position in which the roof panel is held in a position that is inclined with respect to the rest of the vehicle roof, rising counter to the direction of travel; an elevating means for elevating a front edge area of the roof panel, said elevating means comprising a control lever with a slotted link, and a first and a second slide element which are moveably guided in longitudinal direction of said vehicle roof, said first slide element being displaceable connected with said slotted link and said control lever being pivotally connected with said second slide element, said second slide element being releasably fixable to said first slide element by means of a coupling element and releasably held by means of a catch lever at the start of the opening movement so as to secure said second slide element with respect to the longitudinal direction of said vehicle roof until said first slide element elevates the catch lever in order to release said second slide element such that said roof part in its entirety is not moved towards the rear part of the vehicle until reaching an essentially horizontal, elevated position.