Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Patent
1989-06-19
1991-10-08
Cherry, Johnny D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
296124, B60J 706
Patent
active
050548476
ABSTRACT:
A roof panel connected to the vehicle body through at least a pair of left-hand and right-hand front pillars and a pair of left-hand and right-hand rear pillars is provided with a wide open roof panel opening enclosed by a front header, a pair of left-hand and right-hand roof side rails and a rear header. To the pair of left-hand and right-hand rear pillars and the rear header is fixed a rear window glass panel. In order to close the roof panel opening, there is provided a flexible top foldable or windable.
When the roof panel opening is in a closed state, a forward end portion of the flexible top is in abutment with said front header, its left-hand and right-hand side end portions are abutted with the left-hand and right-hand roof side rails, and its rearward end portion is in abutment with the rear header. The flexible top is displaceable along the roof side rails and the rear pillars. When the roof panel opening is in an open state, the flexible top is housed or accommodated in a folded or wound state at a position rearward of the rear window glass panel and nearby its lower end portion.
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Asoh Seiichi
Fukuda Hitoki
Kohno Shigefumi
Kubota Satoshi
Murakami Fumiyuki
Cherry Johnny D.
Hoge Gary C.
Mazda Motor Corporation
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