Patents Assigned to Magna Car Top Systems GmbH
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Publication number: 20090230719Abstract: A link assembly for opening and closing a trunk lid of a vehicle having a movable roof includes lifting and locking links. The lifting link connects the lid to the vehicle to move the lid between a closed position covering the trunk, an opened position in which the front lid edge is raised, and another opened position in which the rear lid edge is raised. The locking link is adjustable between a first position in which its front end is movable and its rear end is pivotably locked to a rear joint, and a second position in which its front end is pivotably connected to a front joint and its rear end is movable. In the first position, the locking link acts on the lifting link to raise the front lid edge. In the second position, the locking link acts on the lifting link to raise the rear lid edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: Magna Car Top Systems GmbHInventor: Holger Roeder
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Patent number: 7585012Abstract: A vehicle includes a compartment, roof, roof system, cover, cover link, and coupling system. The roof is movable between a closed position and a storage position in which the roof is within the compartment. The roof system has a main link movably coupled to the vehicle via a joint and connected to the roof to move the roof. The cover is movable between a closed position covering the compartment and an opened position raised from the compartment. The cover link is movably coupled to the vehicle via a joint and connected to the cover to move the cover. The coupling system has a connecting link coupling the links such that the cover is coupled to the roof system to move about the cover link joint as the roof moves. The connecting link passes through a position in which it and the joints run along a straight line during roof movement.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2008Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Magna Car Top Systems GmbHInventor: Metodi Kostadinov
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Publication number: 20090218828Abstract: A closing device for locking and unlocking a movable roof to and from a vehicle body includes a hook and a lever system. The hook is movable between a closed position to engage a vehicle body component and an opened position to disengage from the component. The lever system has a hook lever and a drive lever pivotable about respective pivot axes extending in a longitudinal direction. The hook is connected to the hook lever to move between the closed and opened positions in response to the hook lever pivoting. The lever system has a control lever with first and second end portions and a middle section. The end portions are respectively connected to the hook lever at first and second link axes extending in the longitudinal direction and adjacent to the pivot axes to couple the hook lever and the drive lever together.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2009Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: MAGNA CAR TOP SYSTEMS GMBHInventor: Thorsten Schumacher
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Publication number: 20090200829Abstract: A folding roof linkage assembly includes front and rear frames and first and second arms. The front frame has a rear portion extending at an acute angle therefrom and having front and rear ends. The rear frame has a front portion extending perpendicularly therefrom and having bottom and top ends. The first arm has a front end pivotally connected to the front end of the front frame and a rear end pivotally connected to the bottom end of the rear frame. The second arm has a front end pivotally connected to the rear end of the front frame and a rear end pivotally connected to the top end of the rear frame. The front frame is movable between a closed position in which the frames extend from one another and an opened position in which the front frame folds over the rear frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: MAGNA CAR TOP SYSTEMS GMBHInventors: Tobias Kober, Gernot Bruder
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Publication number: 20090179453Abstract: A closure assembly for a vehicle includes a hook movable between locked and unlocked positions. An actuator is connected to the hook and is linearly movable to move the hook between the locked and unlocked positions. First and second rotatable gears are engaged with one another such that either gear rotates as the other gear rotates. First and second levers are respectively connected between the gears and the actuator. The levers move as the gears rotate in response to the first gear rotating in a first rotary direction and thereby cause the actuator to move linearly in a first direction to thereby move the hook to the locked position. The levers move as the gears rotate in response to the first gear rotating in a second rotary direction and thereby cause the actuator to move linearly in a second direction to thereby move the hook to the unlocked position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2009Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicant: Magna Car Top Systems GmbHInventors: Thorsten Schumacher, Holger Klemm
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Patent number: 7556311Abstract: A passenger vehicle roof includes front and rear roof parts. The front roof part is longitudinally slidable. The front roof part cooperates with the rear roof part via a control lever such that upon an opening longitudinal motion of the front roof part the control lever lowers the rear roof part in a forcibly guided manner and upon a closing longitudinal motion of the front roof part the control lever raises the rear roof part.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Magna Car Top Systems GmbHInventor: Wolfram Salz
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Publication number: 20090160212Abstract: A rear window for a flexible rear roof section of an openable roof vehicle. The rear window is comprised of a transparent plastic material such as a polycarbonate material, and a fastening section that connects the rear window to the flexible covering of the open roof vehicle. The fastening section forms a single piece with the rear window and is offset relative to the plane of the rear window.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: MAGNA CAR TOP SYSTEMS GMBHInventors: Thomas Halbweiss, Wojciech Wezyk
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Publication number: 20090146464Abstract: A roof assembly includes a roof having a roof frame with front, center, and rear sections, and a lever assembly. The lever assembly includes three levers which are respectively linked to three swivel axes on the rear section such that the roof is movable between a closed position and an opened position. The first lever connects the rear section at the first axis to a support such that the rear section is movable about the first axis; the second lever connects the rear section at the second axis to the center section such that the center section is movable about the second axis; and the third lever connects the rear section at the third axis to the front section such that the front section is movable about the third axis. The levers are adjacently situated in a transverse direction with the second lever being between the first and third levers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: MAGNA CAR TOP SYSTEMS GMBHInventors: Frank Zehnder, Jan Just
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Patent number: 7537266Abstract: A vehicle roof assembly includes a roof having roof parts adjustable between a closed position in which the parts cover the vehicle interior and a storage position in which the parts are stowed in the vehicle trunk. A rear cover frame is adjustably attached to the vehicle body to move between a maximum raised position and a lowered storage position. A kinematic system connected between a rear cover and the frame is movable between an extended position in which the cover is in an opened position raised above the trunk and the frame is in a raised position, and a retracted position in which the cover is in a closed position covering the trunk and the frame is in its lowered position. A stop device associated with the frame limits the raising motion of the frame in an intermediate raised position between its lowered and maximum raised positions.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Magna Car Top Systems GmbHInventors: Thorsten Schumacher, Stephan Rau
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Patent number: 7523977Abstract: A removable top system for a vehicle having a front removable roof section and a rear removable roof section. Different removable roof coverings may be interchangeably combined to provide a complete roof for a sport utility vehicle having a permanent hoop dividing the front and rear roof sections. Soft top and hard top roof coverings are selectively provided. Different retraction mechanisms are disclosed for retracting and storing the removable roof sections.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2007Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Magna Car Top Systems GmbHInventors: Robert E. Fallis, III, Michael T. Willard
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Publication number: 20090102229Abstract: A top for a vehicle that has a stationary support disposed between removable panels forward of the support and a multiple section retractable hardtop rearward of the support. The detachable roof panels are provided in front of the stationary support and extend across the vehicle laterally and to the windshield header when installed. A two piece retractable hardtop is provided rearward of the stationary support that has a back light that is disposed to cover a back light opening in an extended position and is detached from the back light opening in a retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: MAGNA CAR TOP SYSTEMS GMBHInventors: Robert D. Wiechowski, Robert E. Fallis, III, Michael T. Willard
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Publication number: 20090091155Abstract: A convertible top for a vehicle is disclosed that includes an inverted U-shaped rear window frame that defines an opening for a rear window. The rear window may be connected on its upper edge by a hinge to a rear window frame. Alternatively, a rear window may be retracted into a tailgate of a vehicle. The flexible cover material is secured to the rear window frame and a tailgate cooperates with the rear window and extends between the two lower ends of the rear window frame. The rear window is openable relative to the rear window frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: MAGNA CAR TOP SYSTEMS GMBHInventor: Stephen P. Rawlings
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Publication number: 20090085369Abstract: A tri-fold convertible top is disclosed that is stowed in a storage compartment with a five bow oriented at an angle of between 30° and 60° relative to the vehicle belt line. The top may be tensioned by a power cylinder and linkage that raises both a one bow and the five bow when the top is initially retracted. A main power cylinder is connected to the top stack and a main pivot bracket that lifts a rear rail above the belt line during the extension and retraction cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: MAGNA CAR TOP SYSTEMS GmbHInventors: Michael T. Willard, Jan Just
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Publication number: 20090066111Abstract: A vehicle includes a compartment, roof, roof system, cover, cover link, and coupling system. The roof is movable between a closed position and a storage position in which the roof is within the compartment. The roof system has a main link movably coupled to the vehicle via a joint and connected to the roof to move the roof. The cover is movable between a closed position covering the compartment and an opened position raised from the compartment. The cover link is movably coupled to the vehicle via a joint and connected to the cover to move the cover. The coupling system has a connecting link coupling the links such that the cover is coupled to the roof system to move about the cover link joint as the roof moves. The connecting link passes through a position in which it and the joints run along a straight line during roof movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: MAGNA CAR TOP SYSTEMS GMBHInventor: Metodi Kostadinov
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Patent number: 7500710Abstract: A hardtop vehicle roof having at least two rigid roof parts, at least one of which can be adjusted, by a roof part kinematic system, between a closed position in which the vehicle interior is covered and in which the roof parts are arranged one behind the other in the direction of travel, and a storage position exposing the vehicle interior. The roof part kinematic system of the roof parts is arranged on the outside of at least one roof part facing away from the vehicle interior.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Magna Car Top Systems GmbHInventors: Wojciech Wezyk, Berthold Klein, Thomas Halbweiss
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Patent number: 7497500Abstract: A cover assembly for the stowage compartment of a vehicle roof movable between a covered position in which the roof covers the vehicle interior and a stowage position in which the roof is lowered into the stowage compartment. A swivel arm connects middle and cover sections such that the cover section is movable upon movement of the swivel arm relative to the middle section between the covered position in which the cover section is disposed to a side of the middle section and the stowage position in which the cover section is disposed beneath the middle section. In the covered position the cover section is supportable on the body of the vehicle. A floating bearing supports the cover section on the end of the swivel arm connected to the cover section such that the cover section is adjustable along X, Y, and Z axes relative to the swivel arm.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2006Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Magna Car Top Systems GmbHInventors: Holger Roeder, Michael Neuberger
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Patent number: 7497496Abstract: A vehicle includes a foldable roof top and a trunk having a luggage compartment. A trunk lid is movable between a closed lid position in which the lid covers the trunk and an opened lid position in which the lid provides trunk access. The roof is movable between a closed roof position in which the roof parts cover the vehicle interior and an opened roof position in which the roof parts are folded and stored within the trunk over the compartment. When the lid is in the opened lid position the roof is movable from the opened roof position to a loading roof position in which the folded roof parts are raised over the trunk to provide compartment access. A blocking device prevents the lid from unintentionally closing when the lid is in the opened lid position and the roof is in the loading roof position.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2007Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Magna Car Top Systems GmbHInventors: Marc Kielmann, Ralf Johe
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Patent number: 7497497Abstract: A vehicle trunk cover assembly includes two coupled guide rod units which are connectable to the cover and the vehicle body such that the cover is movable between a closed position covering the trunk, a roof transport position in which the front cover end is lifted relative to the trunk, and a loading position in which the rear cover end is lifted relative to the trunk. A locking lever connectable to the vehicle body includes a lock which is movable from an engaged position to a disengaged position upon being actuated. One guide rod unit cooperates with the lock such that the guide rod unit engages the lock when the lock is in its engaged position so that the cover may move into its loading position and disengages from the lock when the lock is in its disengaged position so that the cover may move into its roof transport position.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Magna Car Top Systems GmbHInventor: Dirk Vogt
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Patent number: 7497499Abstract: A vehicle includes a roof, a compartment, and a lid. A roof kinematic system moves the roof between a closed position and a stored position in which the roof is in the compartment. The lid is movable between a closed position in which the lid covers the compartment and an opened position. First and second locks include respective closing parts movable between locked and unlocked positions. A shared kinematic system connects the closing parts to synchronously move them together. When the roof is in its stored position within the compartment and the lid is in its closed position over the compartment, the shared kinematic system moves the closing parts to their locked position such that the first part interacts with the roof and locks the roof within the compartment and the second part interacts with the lid and locks the lid over the compartment.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2006Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Magna Car Top Systems GmbHInventors: Thomas Halbweiss, Kristian Franz, Horst Meier
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Publication number: 20090045655Abstract: A retractable roof for a vehicle having a passenger compartment that is selectively covered by the retractable roof. A pair of roof rails define a plurality of tracks that support a plurality of rigid roof panels on opposite lateral sides of the rigid panels. An upper tailgate extends between a rear portion of the roof rails and is pivoted on a lower edge of the upper tailgate from a forward and upper orientation in a closed position to a horizontal position in the open position. In the closed position, the rigid panels are aligned to form a continuous roof and in the open position, the panels are vertically stacked below the upper tailgate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: MAGNA CAR TOP SYSTEMS GMBHInventors: Michael T. Willard, Robert E. Fallis, III, Jan Just
