Top comprising a cable guide

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11613171-B2
Application number	US-202016864264-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 1, 2020
Priority date	May 8, 2019
Publication date	Mar 28, 2023
Grant date	Mar 28, 2023

Abstract

A top of a convertible vehicle having a top linkage which can be displaced between a closed position, in which the top covers a vehicle interior, and a storage position, in which the vehicle interior is uncovered, and which has a linkage arrangement on either side of a vertical longitudinal center plane of the top, each linkage arrangement having a link and a cable guide disposed on the link and serving to guide a tensioning cable. The cable guide may have two shells defining a passage opening and being in contact with the link from opposite sides.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A top of a convertible vehicle, the top comprising:
a top linkage which can be displaced between a closed position, in which the top covers a vehicle interior, and a storage position, in which the vehicle interior is uncovered, and which comprises a linkage arrangement on either side of a vertical longitudinal center plane of the top,
each linkage arrangement having a link and an assembled cable guide disposed on the link and wherein each assembled cable guide is configured to slidably guide a tensioning cable, and
wherein each assembled cable guide comprises two shells connected to each other defining a passage opening and being in contact with the link from opposite sides.

2. The top according to claim 1 , wherein the link comprises a cut-out, wherein portions of the two connected shells that define the passage opening extending into said cut-out.

3. The top according to claim 1 , wherein a portion of the surface of each assembled cable guide forms a sliding surface for the tensioning cable.

4. The top according to claim 3 , wherein the sliding surface is curved.

5. The top according to claim 1 , wherein the two connected shells are identical parts.

6. The top according to claim 1 , wherein the two connected shells are each an injection-molded plastic part.

7. The top according to claim 1 , wherein a headliner or a top cover can be tensioned by the tensioning cable.

8. The top according to claim 1 , wherein the two connected shells are latched to each other.

9. A top of a convertible vehicle, the top comprising:
a top linkage which can be displaced between a closed position, in which the top covers a vehicle interior, and a storage position, in which the vehicle interior is uncovered, and which comprises a linkage arrangement on either side of a vertical longitudinal center plane of the top,
each linkage arrangement having a link and a cable guide disposed on the link and serving to guide a tensioning cable,
wherein the cable guide comprises two shells defining a passage opening and being in contact with the link from opposite sides,
wherein each of the two shells comprises a latching part and a latching counterpart, the latching part of the first shell engaging with the latching counterpart of the second shell and the latching counterpart of the first shell engaging with the latching part of the second shell.

10. The top according to claim 9 , wherein each latching part comprises a latching lug engaging behind a protrusion of the mating latching counterpart.

11. The top according to claim 9 , wherein each latching counterpart comprises a ramp, the mating latching lug driving onto said ramp during installation of the cable guide on the link.

Assignees

• Webasto SE

Inventors

• Linner Nikolaus

Classifications

• B60J7/041

  for utility vehicles, e.g. with slidable and foldable rigid panels · CPC title

• B60J7/1204

  Control devices, e.g. for compensating tolerances, for defining movement or end position of top, for tensioning the top or for switching to an emergency mode · CPC title

• B60J7/1265 Primary

  characterised by kinematic movements, e.g. using parallelogram linkages (B60J7/126 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60R16/0215

  Protecting, fastening and routing means therefor · CPC title

• B60J7/1692

  the roof being movable by a linkage system · CPC title