Patents Examined by Dennis H. Peddder
  • Guide mechanism for a cover of a sliding/tilting roof
    Patent number: 6789842
    Abstract: A guide mechanism for the cover of a sliding/tilting roof has on each of the two sides thereof a slotted guide that is pivotally mounted to raise the cover. Arranged in the area of the rear edge of the cover is a unit that includes a drain gutter and, at each lateral edge, a guide part. In the raised position of the cover, the unit having the slotted guide is fully decoupled from the unit having the drain gutter in the horizontal direction of displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: ArvinMeritor GmbH
    Inventors: Edgard Weiss, Hubert Bachmann