Motor vehicle roof

• US 7,185,936 B2
• Filed: 05/05/2006
• Issued: 03/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Webasto AG (Webasto Beteiligungs Verwaltung Gbr)
• Original Assignee: Webasto AG (Webasto Beteiligungs Verwaltung Gbr)
• Inventors: Pollak, Martin, Cocaign, Jean-Guy, Koelbl, Michael, Lang, Alexander, Muttenhammer, Rudi, Schoenauer, Miriam, Wulf, Friedhelm, Schwaighofer, Ralf, Birkner, Joachim
• Primary Examiner(s): Pedder; Dennis H.
• Application Number:
  US11/381,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20060186708A1
• Time in Patent Office: 305 Days
• Field of Search: 296/210, 296/216.01, 296/37.7, 296/1.07, 362/490
• US Class Current: 296/37.7
• 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;

wherein the holding frame is formed by a bead in the plastic of the roof plate which projects downward and extends in a transverse direction of the vehicle, ends of the bead being adjoined by bead extensions which extend in a lengthwise direction of the vehicle, and wherein a bottom end of the bead extensions merge longitudinally to a bottom surface of the nontransparent area.

2. Motor vehicle roof, comprising a fixed roof area 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;

wherein the holding frame is formed by a bead in the plastic of the fixed roof area which projects downward and extends in a transverse direction of the vehicle, ends of the bead being adjoined by bead extensions which extend in a lengthwise direction of the vehicle, and wherein a bottom end of the bead extensions merge longitudinally to a bottom surface of the nontransparent area.

3. Motor vehicle roof as claimed in claim 2, wherein said functional element is one of a control console, an illumination means and a tray.