US 12,415,464 B2
Roof module for forming a vehicle roof having a rotatable environment sensor
Rudolf Dietl, Stockdorf (DE)
Assigned to WEBASTO SE, Stockdorf (DE)
Filed by Webasto SE, Stockdorf (DE)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/961,309.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 128 742.1 (DE), filed on Nov. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0138179 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 11/04 (2006.01); B62D 25/06 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01); G01S 13/931 (2020.01)
CPC B60R 11/04 (2013.01) [B62D 25/06 (2013.01); B60R 2011/004 (2013.01); B60R 2011/008 (2013.01); G01S 2013/93273 (2020.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof module having:
a panel component which at least partially forms a roof skin of the vehicle roof, which functions as an outer sealing surface of the roof module and which has at least one curved area, and the roof module having at least one environment sensor which sends and/or receives electromagnetic signals for detecting a vehicle environment,
wherein 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, and
wherein a weatherstrip is disposed circumferentially around the opening by means of which a seal is provided between the environment sensor and the roof skin, irrespective of the position of the environment sensor.