IP Library Granted Patent US 12668312
Granted Patent B2
US 12668312 · App. 18/284,124 · Granted Jun 30, 2026

Roof for a motor vehicle, in particular for a passenger car, and motor vehicle

Inventor: Florian Poth (Otterfing, DE)
Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
B62D25/07
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12668312
App. No.
18/284,124
Granted
Jun 30, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A roof for a motor vehicle has a roof opening at least partially delimited by a body part of a body of the motor vehicle. The root has a roof element which covers at least a portion of the roof opening, is transparent, is fixed at least indirectly to the body part and covers a water drainage opening, through which water can flow, of the body part at the top in the vertical direction of the vehicle. A discharge element is located beneath the body part in the vertical direction, the discharge channel of which discharge element is fluidically connected to the water drainage opening and therefore water flowing through the water drainage opening can flow therethrough.

Claims (22)

1 . A roof for a motor vehicle, comprising:

a component of a motor-vehicle bodywork at least partially delimiting a roof opening;

a light-permeable roof element, which covers at least a sub-region of the roof opening, is secured at least indirectly to the bodywork component and by which a water-drainage opening, which is located in the bodywork component and through which water is flowable, is covered over toward the top, as seen in a vertical direction of the vehicle;

a removal element, which is arranged beneath the bodywork component, as seen in the vertical direction, the removal element having a removal channel that is connected fluidically to the water-drainage opening and therefore through which flows the water flowable through the water-drainage opening; and

a retaining element arranged beneath the bodywork component, as seen in the vertical direction, the retaining element being formed separately from the bodywork component and the removal element, wherein the removal element is retained on the retaining element.

2 . The roof according to claim 1 , wherein

a wall region of the removal element that extends all around the water-drainage opening in a circumferential direction of the water-drainage opening abuts against an underside of the bodywork component, the underside being directed away from the roof element.

3 . The roof according to claim 1 , wherein

the water-drainage opening is arranged in a recess in an upwardly oriented upper side of the bodywork component, as seen in the vertical direction.

4 . The roof according to claim 1 , wherein

at least in a length region, the removal element is in the form of a folding bellows which delimits at least part of the removal channel.

5 . The roof according to claim 4 , wherein

a wall region of the removal element is formed by the folding bellows.

6 . The roof according to claim 1 , wherein

a sub-region of a bodywork-delimited interior space of the motor vehicle is overlapped by the removal element toward the top, as seen in the vertical direction.

7 . The roof according to claim 6 , wherein

the removal channel runs through the bodywork-delimited interior space of the motor vehicle.

8 . The roof according to claim 1 , wherein

the removal channel and/or a further channel, through which the water flowing through the removal channel can flow, runs through a bodywork-delimited interior space of the motor vehicle or runs within a further bodywork component, which is formed separately from the bodywork component and is connected at least indirectly to the bodywork component.

9 . The roof according to claim 8 , wherein

the further channel is formed by a line element, which is in one piece with the removal element or is formed separately from the removal element and is connected with the removal element.

10 . A motor vehicle comprising the roof according to claim 1 .