A soft panel top assembly for a vehicle in sealing engagement with a hard top portion of a roof. The soft panel top assembly has a fixed portion attached to the vehicle and a lightweight pivotal portion that folds back to provide the occupant a quick and easy open air effect. Two door rails of the soft panel top assembly are connected to the vehicle. Two side rail linkage assemblies are attached to header, which is secured to a windshield frame when in a closed position, and are connected at pivot points created with a bracket attached to the door rails to allow the pivotal portion to pivot to an open position. The soft panel top assembly includes a rear header that is lightweight and engages with the existing seal of the hard top roof portion to provide a weatherproof seal.

This disclosure details vehicles that are equipped with one or more removable roof cap assemblies. Exemplary roof cap assemblies include a roof cap and a mounting system with one or more self-aligning brackets configured to self-articulate into alignment with one or more receiving brackets that are mounted to the vehicle.

A locking device for a top of a convertible vehicle having a locking support, a locking hook, which can be shifted in a translational and rotational manner so as to be displaced between a release position and a locked position, and a driving mechanism for the locking hook, the driving mechanism comprising a driving wheel, which is driven by a driving motor and which drives a slide movable on the locking support, the slide being connected to the locking hook in such a manner that the locking hook undergoes a displacing movement when the slide is moved. A securing pin is arranged on a first component movable relative to the locking support, the securing pin engaging into a corresponding recess of a second component moveable relative to the locking support when the locking hook is in the locked position.

A rigid Convertible Hardtop to secure Jeep type vehicle has opening window portions that provides freedom top in passenger area and this invention offer several ways to open at top, sides and rear windows to open manually or powered either to set above the top surface, behind the rear glass or insert inside to make open vehicle or sides and rear windows can be remove with additional options to make full manually open convertible hardtop above entire rear cargo area with modified safety roll cage pipes to close and open with Convertible hinge as designed to flip over the top cover to bottom side surface to insert top cover inside of rear cargo area will capable to close and open entire of the passenger area, sides, top and rear of the vehicle anyplace, anytime whenever user like to do for open air and clear view driving experience surrounding all sides and top area of the vehicle to enjoy pleasant weather condition open air pass through with clear vision on driving to make as inbuilt with conversion on existing hardtop or some of the options to make new one to install one time only instead of time and money wasting separately available these featured soft top covers in market with unnecessary expensive high cost which users replacing seasonally in the past 75 years with several hour time consuming and storage issues of removed hardtop plus installing substitute soft top with many hassle issues like unsafe, flapping noisy, air, wind noise and water leaking, unmatching body color, fad or color changing with blurry view see through vinyl window using for open air driving experience.

This invention is complete solution for recreation type vehicle users as two in one featured in Hardtop only for openable features offer as needed with secured leak proof conversion In hardtop with time saving anyplace anytime while travelling to open or closing features in few minutes with saving on never needed expensive openable soft top so users never need to remove complete hardtop from the Jeep types SUV vehicle as to make inbuilt with several options to modify or make in Hard top with rigid and best weather protection.

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a convertible sliding top assembly for use with a vehicle. The convertible sliding top assembly can create an opening on the top of the vehicle by rotating a plurality of arms and folding over a soft cover. The assembly can be designed and shaped to improve aerodynamics when the vehicle is moving and prevent the buildup of water on the soft cover.

A locking device for a convertible vehicle is proposed, comprising a locking support, a locking hook, which can be shifted in a translational and/or rotational manner so as to be displaced between a release position and a locked position, and a driving mechanism for the locking hook, said driving mechanism comprising a driving element, which is driven by a driving motor and drives the locking hook, as well as a detection device for detecting a position of the driving element. The detection device is a sensor, which continuously detects the position of the driving element with respect to the locking support.

A locking device for a top of a convertible vehicle having a locking support, a locking hook, which can be shifted in a translational and/or rotational manner so as to be displaced between a release position and a locked position, and a driving mechanism for the locking hook, the driving mechanism having a driving wheel, which is driven by a driving motor and which drives a slide movable on the locking support. The slide is connected to a driving section of the locking hook via a pull-link arrangement in such a manner that the locking hook undergoes a pivoting movement when the slide is moved.

In a driver, supposing that an angular position of the rotator in a state where a coupler coupling a link member and the rotator together is located at a rearmost position is regarded as a reference angular position, a first angular position is an angular position where the rotator is shifted from the reference angular position in a first rotation direction by an angle 1, and a second angular position is an angular position where the rotator is shifted from the reference angular position in a second direction opposite to the first rotation direction by an angle 2 smaller than the angle 1. The driver has a regulating portion which does not allow the rotator to rotate in the second rotation direction from the second angular position.

A roof lock device includes a driver 60 having an electric motor 61, a drive gear 62 driven to rotate by the electric motor 61, and a link member 70 coupling the drive gear 62 and the hook member 80 together, and allowing the hook member 80 to reciprocate longitudinally along with the rotation of the drive gear 62. the driver 60 further has a manually operable gear 99 disposed to mesh with the drive gear 62 and is able to be rotated by a certain tool.

There are provided a front roof, a rear roof, a glass unit including a rear-window glass, a rear roof support link which openably supports the rear roof at a vehicle body, a front-roof support link mechanism which openably supports the front roof, the front-roof support link mechanism being connected to the rear roof support link such that closed states of both the front roof and the rear roof are achieved by means of the rear roof support link and the front-roof support link mechanism, and a glass-unit support link mechanism which is connected to the rear roof support link and configured to support the glass unit in a closed position.