Patent ID: 7571951

Claim:
Cabriolet vehicle ( 1 ) with a body ( 4 ) including a windshield frame ( 2 ) and a roof ( 3 ) which includes a front roof area ( 9 ) and a rear roof area ( 8 ), supported by a transverse support ( 18 ), wherein the front roof area ( 9 ) is movable between an open state and a closed state such that the front roof area ( 9 ) is storable in a body recess ( 14 ), which is bounded on a rear by an edge ( 15 ) of the body ( 4 ), in the open state in the same orientation as in the closed state, characterized by the fact that the rear roof area ( 8 ) is disposed rearward relative to the front roof area ( 9 ) and the front roof area ( 9 ) and the transverse support ( 18 ) of the rear roof area ( 8 ) are separated by a separation joint ( 7 ); wherein the front roof area ( 9 ) is designed essentially as a rigid assembly; wherein the transverse support ( 18 ) is rigid and includes a rear edge ( 19 ) continuously overlapped by a flexible cover ( 6 ); wherein the rear roof area ( 8 ) is overlapped with the flexible cover ( 6 ) supported between the transverse support ( 18 ) and the rear edge ( 15 ) of the body ( 4 ); wherein the rear roof area ( 8 ) folds along the rear edge ( 19 ) such that the rear roof area ( 8 ) and the transverse support ( 18 ) are displaced beneath the front roof area ( 9 ) and a rear edge ( 13 ) of the front roof area ( 9 ), at the separation joint ( 7 ), is adapted to the curvature of the edge ( 15 ) of the body ( 4 ) bounding the rear of the body recess ( 14 ) when the roof ( 3 ) is in the open state; wherein a front edge ( 12 ) of the front roof area ( 9 ) is connected to the windshield frame ( 2 ) and a rear edge ( 13 ) of the front roof area ( 9 ) is connected to the transverse support ( 18 ) of the rear roof area ( 8 ) when the roof ( 3 ) is in the closed state; wherein the transverse support ( 18 ) locks to the rear edge ( 13 ) of the front roof area ( 9 ) when the roof ( 3 ) is in the closed state.