Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Patent
1990-12-20
1992-03-24
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
296221, 318286, 318468, B60J 705
Patent
active
050981528
ABSTRACT:
A power sunroof for a motor vehicle is disclosed, which comprises a structure for defining a sunroof opening in a roof of the vehicle; a lid sized to close the sunroof opening, the lid being provided around its periphery with a weather strip; a mechanism for permitting the lid to have a tilt-up position, a full-close position, a flap-down position and a full-open position, the tilt-up position being a position wherein the lid is tilted up with respect to the sunroof opening, the full-close position being a position wherein the lid is received in the sunroof opening with the weather strip compressed therebetween, the flap-down position being a position wherein the lid is tilted down with respect to the sunroof opening, and the full-open position being a position wherein the lid gets under the roof fully opening the sunroof opening; an electric drive motor for driving, when energized, the lid to assume the tilt-up, full-close, flap-down and full-open positions by using an electric power; and a controller for controlling the electric drive motor in such a manner that the full-close position of the lid is always achieved by pivoting the lid upward from the flap-down position.
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Ohi Seisakusho Co. Ltd.
Pedder Dennis H.
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