Folding top for a passenger vehicle

Details Folding top for a passenger vehicle Folding top for a passenger vehicle

1996-08-29

1998-06-02

Pike, Andrew C.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Let-down type top

296117, B60J 712

Patent

active

057589232

ABSTRACT:
A folding top for a vehicle, particularly a passenger car, can be displaced, via a driving device, automatically from a closed position spanning a passenger compartment into a rear-side deposited position in which it is received in a folding top compartment provided with a folding top compartment lid. The driving device has at least one driving element interacting with the folding top structure of the folding top. The driving element applied to the folding top structure comprises a first crank mechanism which is in an operative connection with a gearing unit which is driven by an electric motor and is stationary on the body side, and is coupled with the folding top compartment lid by way of a mechanical forced control. The first crank mechanism has a first crank arm and a first connecting rod connected with the free end of the first crank arm and a control arm of the folding top structure. The mechanical forced control is provided by a second crank mechanism composed of a second crank arm and a second connecting arm.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2895764 (1959-07-01), Himka et al.
"The New Mercedes-Benz Roadster-Body: Air COnditioning, Folding Top and Closing," G. Huber et al., ATZ Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift 91 (1989), 6, pp. 309-318.

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