US 12,071,176 B2
Passenger car
Niklas Eberle, Munich (DE); Michael Floer, Munich (DE); Liudmila Lauer, Augsburg (DE); Sabine Vethacke, Hoehenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn (DE); and Ferhat Yueksel, Augsburg (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/760,563
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 19, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/073208
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 15, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/052699, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 124 869.8 (DE), filed on Sep. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0388576 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 25/06 (2006.01); B60J 1/00 (2006.01); B60J 7/043 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 25/06 (2013.01) [B60J 1/007 (2013.01); B60J 7/043 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A passenger car, comprising:
a monocoque vehicle body having a roof opening delimited outwardly in a vehicle transverse direction by lateral roof rails of the vehicle body and in a vehicle longitudinal direction by a transverse element, connected to the roof rails, of the vehicle body;
a windshield; and
a roof having a frame and at least one roof element which overlaps at least one part of the roof opening and is held directly on the frame and, via the frame, on the vehicle body, wherein
the frame has a transverse frame part,
the roof element and the windshield are directly connected to the transverse frame part, and
the transverse frame part is connected directly to the transverse element of the monocoque vehicle body.