MOTOR VEHICLE ROOF

• US 20060186708A1
• Filed: 05/05/2006
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Webasto AG (Webasto Beteiligungs Verwaltung Gbr)
• Original Assignee: Webasto AG (Webasto Beteiligungs Verwaltung Gbr)
• Inventors: Lang, Alexander, Pollak, Martin, Cocaign, Jean-Guy, Muttenhammer, Rudi, Wulf, Friedhelm, Schwaighofer, Ralf, Kolbl, Michael, Birkner, Joachim, SCHOENAUER, Miriam
• Granted Patent: US 7,185,936 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/217
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 7/0015 roller blind
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 7/003 one or more sliding rigid plate or lammellae
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 7/226 immovably attached to vehicle roof section
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/00 Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0264 for control means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/0231 specially adapted for roofs with openings
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0028 Ceiling, e.g. roof rails
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0059 using clips, clamps, straps or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/06 Fixed roofs non-fixed roofs or like shelters B60J7/00; roof liners B60R13/02; insulating elements B60R13/08
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 35/00 Vehicle bodies characterised by streamlining
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 35/005 Front spoilers B62D35/001 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 65/06 the sub-units or components being doors, windows, openable roofs, lids, bonnets, or weather strips or seals therefor assembling sealing arrangements with vehicle parts, e.g. doors, windows B60J10/45
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/3283 side-mounted antennas, e.g. bumper-mounted, door-mounted mounted on windscreens H01Q1/1271
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/16 with feed intermediate between the extremities of the antenna, e.g. centre-fed dipole H01Q9/44 takes precedence

Abstract

A motor vehicle roof with a roof plate which has a transparent plastic area to which a peripheral plastic edge is molded which is used especially as a cover visor and which extends downward. Furthermore, the roof plate has a nontransparent area with a holding frame for a functional element molded onto a bottom thereof

Claims

1. Motor vehicle roof, comprising:

a roof plate that has a transparent plastic area with a molded-on, downwardly extending peripheral plastic edge; and

wherein the roof plate has a nontransparent area with a holding frame for a functional element molded onto an underside thereof.

2. Motor vehicle roof with a plastic roof plate which covers a roof surface between roof side members, wherein the roof plate has a nontransparent area with a holding frame for a functional element molded onto a bottom thereof.

3. Motor vehicle roof as claimed in claim 2, wherein the roof plate has a nontransparent area with a holding frame for a functional element molded onto an underside thereof, said functional unit being selected from the group consisting of a control console, an illumination means and a tray.

4. Motor vehicle roof as claimed in claim 3, wherein the holding frame has means for locking the functional element therein.

5. Motor vehicle roof as claimed in claim 3, wherein the roof plate has an openable cover and a windshield apron of plastic, at least one wind deflector being molded to the apron as part thereof;

wherein a front end of the functional element is coupled to a front of the holding frame and, the back end of the functional element is able to swing down.