Drive arrangement for a retractable folding roof

Details Drive arrangement for a retractable folding roof Drive arrangement for a retractable folding roof

1995-07-07

1997-07-08

Pedder, Dennis H.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Let-down type top

296117, B60J 712

Patent

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056453094

ABSTRACT:
A drive arrangement for a retractable folding roof, in particular for a folding top of cabriolets, is provided with a pivot drive for a front folding-roof part. The roof part is mounted on the body via lateral pillars. Two double-acting operating cylinders are each supported, by one of their ends, on the body and, by their other ends, in an articulated manner on the lever arm of that pillar of the front roof part which is assigned to them. A pivot drive for the rear roof part is also provided. In order to permit a compact drive arrangement which is favorable in terms of weight and cost, the operating cylinders serving for the pivot drive of the front roof part are also used for the relative pivoting of the rear roof part, for which purpose the operating cylinders are connected to the lever arm of the pillar assigned to them via a rotary-slide articulation which can be blocked for common pivot-movement phases of the front roof part and the rear roof part.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4936626 (1990-06-01), Gmeiner et al.
patent: 5052740 (1991-10-01), Bauer et al.

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