Patent ID: 6890024

Claim:
A lamellar roof for a roof opening ( 1 ) of a motor vehicle comprising at least front and rear lamella sections (L 1 -L 4 ) guided in the roof opening so as to be movable between a closed position, in which the roof opening ( 1 ) is closed by a planar side-by-side arrangement of said lamella sections, and an open position, in which the lamella sections (L 1 -L 4 ) are tilted upwardly and moved backwardly into overlapping relationship, a lamella guide mechanism for guiding said lamella sections during movement between said closed and open positions, including lamella section carriers (T 1 -T 4 ) and guide carriages (F 1 -F 5 ), each lamella section carrier (T 1 -T 4 ) being supported on two adjacent guide carriages, each guide carriage (F 1 -F 4 ) except for a rearmost carriage (F 5 ) having a pivot axis ( 7 ) for the—in travel direction of the vehicle—adjacent rear lamella section carrier (T 1 -T 4 ) and a, in slide direction displaced, pivot axis ( 11 ) for a control rocker ( 10 ), which supports an adjacent front lamella section carrier (T 1 to T 4 ) and also a rearwardly adjacent lamella section carrier and which is coupled to the front lamella section carrier by way of a guide groove ( 8 ) extending along the front lamella section carrier such that said control rocker ( 10 ) is movable out of its basic closed roof position to a roof opening position, in which it raises the rear edge of an adjacent lamella section to tilt the adjacent lamella section upwardly, and said pivot axis ( 7 ) for said adjacent rear lamella section carrier being arranged in the rear end area of said guide carriage (F 2 ) said control rocker ( 10 ) extending from the pivot axis ( 11 ) thereof toward the adjacent rear lamella section carrier and being engaged between the pivot axis ( 7 ) of the adjacent rear lamella section carrier and the pivot axis ( 11 ) of said control rocker ( 10 ) on said guide carriage in the guide slot ( 8 ) of said front lamella section carrier (T 1 ), and said control rocker ( 10 ) having a projection extending in opening direction and being supported on said adjacent rear lamella section carrier.