US 11,718,161 B2
Sliding roof system for a motor vehicle
Christian Biewer, Dietzenbach (DE); and Heiko Albert, Dietzenbach (DE)
Assigned to Roof Systems Germany GmbH, Dietzenbach (DE)
Filed by Roof Systems Germany GmbH, Dietzenbach (DE)
Filed on Nov. 25, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/694,411.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 130 017.4 (DE), filed on Nov. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0164729 A1, May 28, 2020
Int. Cl. B60J 7/043 (2006.01); E05D 15/06 (2006.01); E05D 15/10 (2006.01)
CPC B60J 7/043 (2013.01) [E05D 15/0604 (2013.01); E05D 15/1047 (2013.01); E05Y 2201/684 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/542 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sliding roof system for a motor vehicle, with a front lifting mechanism and a rear lifting mechanism which are assigned to a front and a rear edge respectively of a cover of the sliding roof system, as well as a connecting element which is arranged between the front and the rear lifting mechanisms,
wherein the rear lifting mechanism has a lifting carriage with at least one lifting slotted guide,
a lifting lever which is pivotably attached with one end to a fixed bearing and the other end of which has a guide element for the cover, and
a translating lever which is pivotably connected to the lifting lever between the one end and the other end of the lifting lever,
wherein the translating lever is coupled to the lifting carriage by means of a first slider and a second slider,
wherein the lifting slotted guide has a low-level section, a diagonally upwardly extending section, a high-level section, a diagonally downwardly extending section and a second low-level section, and
wherein the first slider is located in the high-level section and the second slider is located in a rearmost of the low-level sections of the lifting slotted guide when the sliding roof system is in a closed position.