Patent ID: 7905542

Claim:
A sunroof assembly for an opening of a vehicle, comprising: a composite water management assembly having a pair of parallel side rails having a water trough and a forward and a rearward end, a pair of transitional corners connected to the forward ends of the side rails, a front rail connected to the corners at substantially right angles to the side rails, and a pair of end caps connected to the rearward ends of the side rails; a vertically oriented slide track snap fitted into substantially the length of the side rails; a reinforcement bar connected to the vertically oriented slide track at substantially right angles to the rearward end of vertical slide tracks; a pair of mirror image slide mechanisms with vertically oriented mounts, retained but free to slide within a channel of the vertical slide track and outboard of the water trough; and a movable panel attached to the slide mechanism, wherein each slide mechanism comprises a tilting structure configured to hold the movable panel in a tilted ventilation orientation.