Abstract: A vehicle roof roller blind arrangement having roller blind web, windable to form a roller blind fabric roll in a winding area, and two guide rails disposed on either side of the web and which have respective guide tracks in which lateral guide strips of the web are guided, the guide rails connected to each other via a transverse frame part in which the winding area for the roller blind web is formed. Each guide rail has a clean-cut end adjacent to the transverse frame part. The transverse frame part has a strip infeed element for each guide rail, the strip infeed elements forming infeed tracks for the guide strips, each infeed track being defined by at least one inner retaining rib and at least one outer retaining rib for the guide strip, and the infeed tracks ending in the guide tracks of the guide rails.

Abstract: An arrangement for a vehicle roof, having a first pane element configured to realize an outer pane for the vehicle roof, a second pane element that is configured to realize an inner pane for the vehicle roof, the second pane element (2) being coupled to the first pane element, a cooling device, which may have a semiconductor layer having Peltier elements, and strip conductors connected to the semiconductor layer, and wherein the cooling device being designed to cool a vehicle interior, and being coupled to the second pane element, such that the cooling device is arranged between the first and the second pane element.

Abstract: A window module, in particular a fixed transparent window module, for being fitted on a vehicle body which has a body frame, which at least partially defines a roof opening and on which a peripheral supporting receptacle for receiving the window module is formed, having at least one at least partially transparent window, which has an outer surface facing a vehicle environment and an inner surface opposite the outer surface and facing a vehicle interior, wherein at least one plastic structure, which is at least configured as a burn protection for at least one vehicle occupant, is disposed on the to inner surface.

Abstract: A roof module for forming a motor vehicle roof, the roof module having a panel component which may at least partially form a roof skin of the vehicle roof, which functions as an outer sealing surface of the roof module and which as at least one curved area. The roof module having at least one environment sensor which sends and/or receives electromagnetic signals for detecting a vehicle environment. The environment sensor is disposed in a circular opening of the curved area of the panel component and is displaceable, essentially without tilt, between a resting position and at least one operating position by means of a rotational movement around a rotation axis.

Abstract: A vehicle roof roller blind arrangement having roller blind web, which can be wound up to form a roller blind fabric roll in a winding area, and two guide rails disposed on either side of the web and which have respective guide tracks in which lateral guide strips of the web are guided, the guide rails connected to each other via a transverse frame part in which the winding area for the roller blind web is formed. Each guide rail has a clean-cut end adjacent to the transverse frame part. The transverse frame part has a strip infeed element for each guide rail, the strip infeed elements forming infeed tracks for the guide strips, each infeed track being defined by at least one inner retaining rib and at least one outer retaining rib for the guide strip, and the infeed tracks ending in the guide tracks of the guide rails.

Abstract: The invention proposes a shading arrangement having a first look-through region and a second look-through region, having a first shading unit for the first look-through region and a second shading unit for the second look-through region, wherein the two shading units include one shading element, respectively, on which a drive means either directly or indirectly acts on both sides, respectively at a lateral guide rail in relation to a vertical longitudinal center plane of the roof. On both sides, in relation to the vertical longitudinal center plane of the roof, one coupling tube is arranged, respectively, said coupling tube connecting the guide rails of the two shading units to one another, which are respectively arranged on one side of the vertical longitudinal center plane, and guiding the drive means of the second shading unit, which is driven by the drive means of the first shading unit.

Abstract: A side panel of a cover which can be folded out through a roof opening in a vehicle roof, said side panel being adjustable between a lowered starting position when the cover closes the roof opening and a raised covering position when the cover is folded out, wherein provision is made according to the invention that the side panel, in the lowered starting position thereof, is arranged below a boundary or contact region between a side edge of the cover and a roof part adjoining the roof opening and at a distance from the cover.

Abstract: A side panel of a cover which can be folded out through a roof opening in a vehicle roof, said side panel being adjustable between a lowered starting position when the cover closes the roof opening and a raised covering position when the cover is folded out, wherein provision is made according to the invention that the side panel, in the lowered starting position thereof, is arranged below a boundary or contact region between a side edge of the cover and a roof part adjoining the roof opening and at a distance from the cover.

Abstract: The invention proposes a shading arrangement having a first look-through region and a second look-through region, having a first shading unit for the first look-through region and a second shading unit for the second look-through region, wherein the two shading units include one shading element, respectively, on which a drive means either directly or indirectly acts on both sides, respectively at a lateral guide rail in relation to a vertical longitudinal center plane of the roof. On both sides, in relation to the vertical longitudinal center plane of the roof, one coupling tube is arranged, respectively, said coupling tube connecting the guide rails of the two shading units to one another, which are respectively arranged on one side of the vertical longitudinal center plane, and guiding the drive means of the second shading unit, which is driven by the drive means of the first shading unit.

Abstract: A soft top for a motor vehicle, lockable on a windshield frame by a latch disposed on a forward soft top section and swivelable to a locked position, the soft top movable to a rearward stowed position once the latch has been swiveled into an unlocked position. A locking mechanism provides a catch hook on the vehicle body swivelable between a releasing position and a blocking position, in which the same engages with a catch hook engaging part that is mounted on the soft top or the vehicle body when the soft top is in the blocked state. The locking mechanism is fitted with a spring device, against the spring force of which the soft top runs into the stowed position, while the catch hook can be swiveled into the released position by means of the locking drive in order to release the locking mechanism.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor device, in particular for detecting at least one object in a swivel region of a convertible top, comprising at least one sensor which is formed at least partly by a convertible top rod system. According to the invention, the sensor further comprises a conductor path structure connected in an electrically conductive manner to the convertible top rod system so as to form a sensor electrode. The invention further relates to a method for installing such a sensor device. Furthermore, the invention relates to a conductor path structure, in particular a flexible and substantially flat conductor path structure. According to the invention, said structure can be attached to a convertible top rod system, in particular to one or more links of a link system of the convertible top rod system, wherein the conductor path structure can be connected to the convertible top rod system in an electrically conductive manner via one or more contact regions.

Abstract: A folding top for a convertible is proposed, comprising a folding-top cloth (16) and a folding-top linkage (14) which is provided on both sides with a main link (28) which is mounted on a main bearing (26) and to which a frame part (38), which extends substantially in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle in the closed position of the top, and an intermediate link (44) are coupled. A front, rigid folding-top element (22) is connected via a first folding-top element link (58) to the intermediate link (44) and via a second folding-top element link (60) to the frame part (38). According to the invention, means are provided on the folding-top linkage (14), said means bringing about a continuous slowing-down of the front, rigid folding-top element (22) during the sequence of movement of the top from a storage position to the closed position.

Abstract: A roof part mounted movably by means of a bearing device on a bearing slide, which is mounted in a manner such that it can be shifted on a guide of the vehicle roof and can be displaced along the guide by means of a drive, wherein, for improved adjustment of the movable roof part, the roof part can be displaced relative to the bearing slide by means of an additional controllable adjusting device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle comprising a folding top (1) that can be adjusted between a closed position and an open position and that has a mobile rear top bow (6), and further comprising a rear flap (8) closing a rear storage space (28). In order to improve functionality, the rear flap (8) is pivoted to the top bow (6). The rear flap (8) can be lifted together with the upward pivoting top bow (6), thereby releasing a larger rear opening (27). The top bow is preferably a fabric-tensioning bow (6) of the folding top (2) that is covered with a folding top fabric.

Abstract: A folding top for a convertible is proposed, comprising a folding-top cloth (16) and a folding-top linkage (14) which is provided on both sides with a main link (28) which is mounted on a main bearing (26) and to which a frame part (38), which extends substantially in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle in the closed position of the top, and an intermediate link (44) are coupled. A front, rigid folding-top element (22) is connected via a first folding-top element link (58) to the intermediate link (44) and via a second folding-top element link (60) to the frame part (38). According to the invention, means are provided on the folding-top linkage (14), said means bringing about a continuous slowing-down of the front, rigid folding-top element (22) during the sequence of movement of the top from a storage position to the closed position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a soft top for a motor vehicle, which can be locked on a windshield frame by means of a latch (18) that is disposed on a forward soft top section (12) and can be swiveled into a locked position while said soft top can be moved into a stowed position at the rear of the vehicle once the latch (18) has been swiveled into an unlocked position. The soft top can be blocked in the stowed position by means of a locking mechanism (22). The inventive soft top is equipped with a locking drive (32, 24) which is drivingly connected to the latch (18) in order to swivel the latch (18) between the locked position and the unlocked position. The locking mechanism (22) is provided with a catch hook (56) on the vehicle body or the soft top. Said catch hook (56) can be swiveled between a releasing position and a blocking position, in which the same engages with a catch hook engaging part (28) that is mounted on the soft top or the vehicle body when the soft top is in the blocked state.

Abstract: The invention relates to a folding canopy for a motor vehicle, having a canopy linkage arrangement which has a main member (12) and a main column (14), wherein the main member and the main column are mounted via in each case one first hinge point (16, 18) on a main bearing, which is fixed to the body, of the vehicle, and are articulately connected to one another via in each case one second hinge point (20, 22) by means of a connecting element (24), and having a seal carrier (26) which is moveably connected to the main column. It is provided according to the invention that the main member (12) and the seal carrier (26) are articulately connected to one another by means of a transverse member (28).

Abstract: The invention relates to a roof part (7) of an openable vehicle roof (2), which roof part is mounted movably by means of a bearing device (12, 13) on a bearing slide (14), which is mounted in a manner such that it can be shifted on a guide (10) of the vehicle roof (2) and can be displaced along the guide (10) by means of a drive (21), wherein, for improved adjustment of the movable roof part, the roof part (7) can be displaced relative to the bearing slide (14) by means of an additional controllable adjusting device (22, 25, 27).

Abstract: The invention relates to a folding top for a convertible, comprising a rod assembly (8) and a top (4, 19) which is mounted on the rod assembly (8). In order to create a modular folding top concept, the rod assembly (8) is provided with a fastening base that is designed for mounting different tops (4, 19). Furthermore, one respective top (4, 19) that is selected among a group of at least two tops which are formed differently especially regarding the movement functionalities thereof while having the same connecting dimensions is mounted on the fastening base to complete the folding top.

Abstract: A convertible top (1) of a motor vehicle (2) with a roof part (3) which is connected to the material (4) of the convertible top, has at least one mounting element (5) attached on the material (4) of the convertible top. In the installed state of the convertible top 1, the at least one mounting element (5) is detachably connected to at least one corresponding mounting element 6 of the roof part 3.