Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Patent
1989-03-01
1991-02-26
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
296220, 296223, B60J 7047
Patent
active
049956671
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle sliding roof system for a roof structure in which a roof opening extending substantially over the entire width of the roof is defined between a front roof and a rear roof. A moveable central roof is guided for its motion by a pair of guide arms each having one end slidably guided by a first guide rail provided in the fixed rear roof and another end guided by a second guide rail provided in the moveable central roof. As the one end of each of the guide arms is moved along the first guide rail, the guide arm turns from a relatively lateral attitude to a more longitudinal attitude. Additionally, each of the second guide rails extends obliquely in such a manner that an internal end of the second guide rail is located behind an external end of thereof. Owing to these geometrical arrangements of the guide arms and the guide rails, the travel of the moveable central roof is maximized for a given longitudinal dimension of the first guide rails, and the possible roof opening area is thus maximized. This system may be favorably applied to the T-bar roof structure in which a bar member extends between the central parts of the front and rear roofs, and, in this case, the front end of the moveable roof may be guided along the bar member for added rigidity of the sliding roof structure.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4563036 (1986-01-01), Bauer
Furuki Fumio
Tamura Michio
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Pedder Dennis H.
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