Control system for a sliding-tilting roof of a motor vehicle

• US 4,916,369 A
• Filed: 08/04/1988
• Issued: 04/10/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Webasto AG (Webasto Beteiligungs Verwaltung Gbr)
• Original Assignee: Vermeulen-Hollandia Octrooien II B.V.
• Inventors: Huyer, Johannes N.
• Primary Examiner(s): SALATA, ANTHONY J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wysocki, A. Jonathan
• Application Number:
  US07/228,690
• Time in Patent Office: 614 Days
• Field of Search: 318/282, 318/283, 318/286, 318/280, 318/266, 318/467, 318/466, 307/10.1, 307/10.2, 340/641, 296/216, 296/218
• US Class Current: 318/286
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 7/0573 power driven arrangements, e.g. electrical

Abstract

A control system for a sliding-tilting roof of a motor vehicle comprises a motor for moving the sliding-tilting roof and an electrical circuit with a manually operable operating means for energizing the motor for moving the sliding-tilting roof to its closed or open position, respectively. Said electrical circuit comprises an input to be connected to a central locking system which provides a closing signal upon locking of the vehicle. Said electrical circuit further comprises a detecting means for determining the position of the sliding-tilting roof and said circuit energizes the motor for moving the roof to its closed position when the detecting means signals an open position of the sliding-tilting roof.

Claims

1. Control system for a sliding-tilting roof of a motor vehicle, comprising a motor for moving the sliding-tilting roof and an electrical circuit with a manually operable operating means for energizing said motor for moving the sliding-tilting roof to its closed or open position, respectively, wherein said electrical circuit comprises an input to be connected to a vehicle central locking system which provides a closing signal upon locking of the vehicle, said circuit further comprising a detecting means for determining the position of the sliding-tilting roof and means for energizing the motor for moving the roof to its closed position upon receipt of the central locking system signal when the detecting means indicates an open position of the sliding-tilting roof.

2. Control system according to claim 1, characterized in that the detecting means includes a second switch means which can be actuated by a second cam way of the cam means.

3. Control system according to claim 2, characterized in that said second cam way has a length correlated to the entire tilting movement distance of the cam means and has a cam operable up to substantially half the operation of the cam of the first cam way which determines the closed position of the sliding-tilting roof.

4. Control system according to claim 2 characterized in that a make-and-break contact of a relay is provided at both sides of the motor, wherein each of said make-and-break contacts with corresponding de-energized relay connects the corresponding terminal of the motor to one pole of a power source and with energized relay to the other pole of the power source, wherein the excitation coils of both relays are connected on the one side to said one pole of the power source and on the other side are connectable alternatively to said other pole of the power source through the operating means made as a reversing switch having a non-connected center position, wherein said first switch means, upon operation by a cam of the first cam way, energizes the relay which is not energized by the operating means upon manual operation, while during the closing movement of the sliding-tilting roof the second switch means interrupts the connection between the first switch means and said relay energized by the operating means upon said manual operation.

5. Control system according to claim 4, characterized in that an auxiliary relay is connected in parallel to both relays for the motor through corresponding diodes, wherein said first switch means is provided between the junction of the diodes and the auxiliary relay, said first switch means being a two-way switch with a a normal position, wherein the switch connects the auxiliary relay and the junction of the diodes, wherein a make contact of the auxiliary relay is connected in parallel to the first switch means in normal position, the cam actuated position of the first switch means connecting the auxiliary relay to a common contact of the second switch means, said second switch means comprising a two-way switch with a normal position, and having output contacts which each are connected with a separate contact of the operating means, wherein the the central locking system is connected to provide a signal through a third switch means to the common contact of the second switch means and wherein the cam means is provided with a third cam way with a cam for operating the third switch means to disable the signal from the central locking system in the closed position of the sliding-tilting roof.

6. Control system according to claim 5, characterized in that said third switch means is a two-way switch, one output contact of which is connected to the switching arm of the second switch means and the other output contact of which provides means for indicating the closed position of the sliding-tilting roof.

7. Control system for a sliding-tilting roof of a motor vehicle, comprising a motor for moving the sliding-tilting roof and an electrical circuit with a manually operable operating means for energizing said motor for moving the sliding-tilting roof to its closed or open position, respectively, wherein said electrical circuit comprises an input to be connected to a central locking system which provides a closing signal upon locking of the vehicle, said electrical circuit further comprising detecting means for determining the position of the sliding-tilting roof, and means for energizing the motor for moving the roof to its closed position upon receipt of the central locking system signal when the detecting means also indicates an open position of the sliding-tilting roof, wherein on operating the operating means for opening the sliding-tilting roof, said electrical circuit is further adapted to de-energize the motor in at least one predetermined intermediate position of the sliding-tilting roof, and wherein when the operating means is operated for closing the sliding-tilting roof, the detecting means includes means for maintaining the motor in operation until the sliding-tilting roof has reached its closed position.

8. Control system for a sliding-tilting roof of a motor vehicle, comprising a motor for moving the sliding-tilting roof and an electrical circuit with a manually operable operating means for energizing said motor for moving the sliding-tilting roof to its closed or open position, respectively, wherein said electrical circuit comprises an input to be connected to a central locking system which provides a closing signal upon locking of the vehicle, said electrical circuit further comprising detecting means for determining the position of the sliding-tilting roof, and means for energizing the motor for moving the roof to its closed position upon receipt of the central locking system signal when the detecting means also indicates an open position of the sliding-tilting roof, wherein said electrical circuit comprises first switch means for stopping the motor by short circuiting the same, and cam means synchronously movable with the sliding-tilting roof with respect to said switch means, said cam means having a cam way with a plurality of cams for actuating said switch means, the detecting means also including means to render said switch means inactive during the closing movement of the sliding tilting roof until the closed position is reached.