US 12,077,039 B2
Glass roof arrangement for a motor vehicle
Marius Marquart, Ostfildern (DE)
Assigned to BOS GMBH & CO. KG, Ostfildern (DE)
Filed by BOS GmbH & Co. KG, Ostfildern (DE)
Filed on Jun. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/854,445.
Claims priority of application No. 102021207033.7 (DE), filed on Jul. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0001774 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B60J 7/00 (2006.01); B62D 25/06 (2006.01)
CPC B60J 7/0007 (2013.01) [B62D 25/06 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A glass roof arrangement for a motor vehicle, the glass roof arrangement comprising:
a support frame, the support frame having an operating state, the support frame in the operating state being mounted in a manner fixed on the motor vehicle by being fixedly connected to roof structure parts of a vehicle body of the motor vehicle;
at least one transparent roof panel fixedly arranged on the support frame and having an underside;
a shading device, disposed at the underside of the at least one transparent roof panel and having a shading structure; and
guide rails fastened to the underside of the at least one transparent roof panel, the shading structure being displaceable longitudinally in and relative to the guide rails in a displacement direction, each guide rail having a guide profile cross-section, the shading structure having a pair of edge regions spaced-apart from one another in a direction transverse to the displacement direction, the shading structure being guided laterally in each of the guide profile cross-sections, each guide profile cross-section being formed by an edge limb oriented substantially orthogonally to the underside of the at least one transparent roof panel, and a guide limb extending substantially parallel to the underside of the at least one transparent roof panel and being attached to the edge limb, such that a lateral guide channel for the shading structure is formed and delimited by the underside of the at least one transparent roof panel, the edge limb, and the guide limb, the edge regions of the shading structure being slidably engaged within the respective lateral guide channels.