Actuating device for a folding top compartment cover

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8376447
APP PUB NO 20100186541A1
SERIAL NO

12693872

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An actuating device for opening and closing a cover of a folding top compartment of a convertible vehicle. The actuating device includes a drive unit and an interconnected seven-bar linkage system. The linkage system is pivotably connected to a main bearing of the vehicle body and is pivotably connected to the cover. The drive unit actuates the linkage system to move the linkage system between a retracted position corresponding to the cover being in a lowered closed position covering the folding top compartment and an extended position corresponding to the cover being in a raised opened position allowing access to the folding top compartment.

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MAGNA CAR TOP SYSTEMS GMBHSTUTTGARTER STRASSE 59 BIETIGHEIM-BISSINGEN D-74321

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Just, Jan Bloomfield Hills, US 32 201
Stapler, Waldemar Stuttgart, DE 3 4
Yoder, Kwan Waterford, US 1 2

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