Patent ID: 7267397

Claim:
An open roof construction for a vehicle, comprising: a roof opening defined in a fixed roof construction of the vehicle; a panel-shaped closure means for the roof opening movable between a closing position for closing said roof opening and an opening position for at least partially exposing said roof opening, said closure means having a forward edge and a rearward edge, wherein during transition of the closure means from one of said positions towards the other of said positions at least one of said forward and rearward edges of the closure means also is moved in a direction towards or away from, respectively, the fixed roof construction; and a guide mechanism providing for the movement of at least one of said edges of the closure means, said guide mechanism comprising: a stationary guiding attached to the fixed roof construction and extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle; a slide engaging the stationary guiding and being driven by a drive means for a guided movement along the stationary guiding; and a link member having a first end that hingeably engages the closure means and an opposite second end that slidingly and hingeably engages the stationary guiding, and which link member further is operatively connected to the slide in such a manner, that when the slide moves from a position in which the closure means closes the roof opening towards a position in which the closure means exposes the roof opening the link member firstly rotates such as to move the respective edge of the closure means away from the fixed roof construction and thereafter moves along with the slide while maintaining its rotated position such as to move the closure means substantially in parallel to the guiding, wherein the stationary guiding comprises: a first link member guide track that houses a first link member guide attached to said opposite second end of the link member; and a second link member guide track that houses a second link member guide attached to said opposite second end of the link member at a distance from the first link member guide, wherein the second link member guide track has a first section extending in parallel to the first link member guide track and an arc-shaped second section extending transversally thereto, and wherein the first link member guide track is provided with a stop, such that when the first link member guide engages the stop the second link member guide is positioned at a connection between the first section and the arc-shaped second section of the second link member guide track.