Roof for a motor vehicle comprising a sensor module
A roof for a motor vehicle, in particular for a passenger car, the roof having a support structure, a roof skin at least partially covering the support structure, roof side beams which are part of a vehicle body, and at least one sensor module having an environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment. The sensor module may be disposed on the support structure and is for a large part located below a reference roof indentation plane which is in tangential contact with one of the roof side beams and inclined relative to a horizontal plane by a first angle (α) in the transverse direction of the roof and by a second angle (β) in the longitudinal direction of the roof.
1. A roof for a motor vehicle, the roof comprising:
a support structure,
a roof skin at least partially covering the support structure,
roof side beams which are part of a vehicle body, and
at least one sensor module comprising an environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment,
wherein the sensor module is disposed on the support structure and is for a large part located below a reference roof indentation plane which is in tangential contact with one of the roof side beams and inclined relative to horizontal plane by a first angle (α) in the transverse direction of the roof and by a second angle (β) in the longitudinal direction of the roof;
wherein the roof is an integrated compact roof module which can be placed on top of the vehicle body as a unit; and
wherein the support structure is a roof frame and the sensor modules are each disposed in a corner area of the roof module on the roof frame.
2. The roof according to claim 1 , wherein the first angle (α) is between 20° and 30° and is in particular about 25°.
3. The roof according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the second angle (β) is between 2° and 10° and is in particular about 5°.
4. The roof according to claim 1 , wherein the sensor module is covered by the roof skin.
5. The roof according to claim 1 , wherein an upper boundary surface of a portion of the sensor module extends above the reference roof indentation plane by no more than about 12.5 cm.
6. The roof according to claim 1 , wherein the roof skin forms a window for the environment sensor.
7. The roof according to claim 2 , wherein the first angle (α) is about 25°.
8. The roof according to claim 3 , wherein the second angle (β) is about 5°.
9. A roof for a motor vehicle, the roof comprising:
a support structure,
a roof skin at least partially covering the support structure,
roof side beams which are part of a vehicle body, and
at least one sensor module comprising an environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment,
wherein the sensor module is disposed on the support structure and is for a large part located below a reference roof indentation plane which is in tangential contact with one of the roof side beams and inclined relative to horizontal plane by a first angle (α) in the transverse direction of the roof and by a second angle (β) in the longitudinal direction of the roof;
wherein the roof is an integrated compact roof module which can be placed on top of the vehicle body as a unit;
wherein the support structure is a roof frame and the sensor modules are each disposed in a corner area of the roof module on the roof frame; and
the roof module comprises four sensor modules each comprising an environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment.