Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100045076 | BELT SUPPORTING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE ROOF AND ROOF DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A belt supporting apparatus includes a bottom portion, first and second wall portions integrally formed with the bottom portion so as to be parallel to each other, a holding portion integrally formed at the second wall portion and an opening formed at the bottom portion opposes the holding portion, wherein the housing houses a toothed belt so as to be slidably in such a way that a toothed portion of the toothed belt is facing the first wall portion, and a back surface formed at the other surface of the toothed belt is facing the second wall portion, and the toothed belt is prevented from being moved out of the housing in the vehicle height direction by means of the holding portion. | 02-25-2010 |
20100122778 | Shade apparatus for vehicle - A shade apparatus for a vehicle includes a guide rail mechanism adapted to be arranged along a side portion of an inner periphery of an opening formed in an interior ceiling member of the vehicle, a shade panel mechanism slidably supported by the guide rail mechanism, configured to open and close the opening of the interior ceiling member, and including first and second shade panels, an engaging member arranged at one of the first and second shade panels, and an elastic member arranged at the other of the first and second shade panels and including a fixing portion and a deformable portion. The first and second shade panels move as a unit in the moving direction after one of the first and second shade panels moves relative to the other of the first and second shade panels in the moving direction and the engaging member engages with the elastic member. | 05-20-2010 |
20100308625 | Support mechanism for opening and closing member - A support mechanism for an opening and closing member slidably moving to open and close an opening formed in a vehicle body, includes a support frame adapted to be arranged at the opening and closing member to support the opening and closing member relative to the vehicle body, a guide rail adapted to be arranged at the vehicle body along a side edge of the opening and including first and second guide portions that are parallel to each other, and a guided member including a cylindrical portion and a bearing portion continuously formed with the cylindrical portion and coaxially supporting a shaft portion that is arranged at the support frame, the cylindrical portion having an outer peripheral surface formed into a tapered shape and contacting the first and second guide portions in a biased manner. | 12-09-2010 |
20120056449 | Deflector apparatus for vehicle - A deflector apparatus for a vehicle includes the deflector body configured to be provided along a front edge portion of an opening portion formed on a roof portion of a vehicle and to be deployed by projecting above a surface of the roof portion. The deflector body includes a mesh member extending along the front edge portion of the opening portion. The deflector apparatus for the vehicle also includes a pair of resin frames provided at end portions of the mesh member in a widthwise direction of the mesh member respectively to extend in a lengthwise direction of the mesh member over an entire length of the mesh member. The pair of resin frames is resin-molded integrally with the mesh member and covers the end portions of the mesh member including edges of the mesh member in the widthwise direction of the mesh member. | 03-08-2012 |
20120068502 | Roof apparatus - A roof apparatus includes a movable panel for opening and closing an opening portion adapted to be provided on a roof panel, and a weather strip disposed between an opening edge of the roof panel and the movable panel so as to serve as a sealing between the opening edge and the movable panel. The opening edge of the roof panel includes a flange portion formed to extend vertically downward from a roof panel body of the roof panel. The weather strip includes a base portion accommodating the flange portion of the roof panel inside the base portion. A supporting member mounted on the roof panel and supporting the movable panel includes a holding portion holding the base portion of the weather strip. | 03-22-2012 |
20120073768 | Sunshade for vehicle - A sunshade for a vehicle includes a pair of guide rails extended at a side edge of a light passing portion provided on a vehicle roof, the guide rails arranged opposite to each other, plural extending portions formed on each of the guide rails and extending towards the opposite guide rail, the extending portions defining slide recessed grooves, a sliding member supported by the extending portions and slidably provided in each of the slide recessed grooves, an engaging portion formed on said each sliding member, and plural shade panels slidably supported in the slide recessed grooves, respectively, via the sliding member, the shade panels being configured to interoperate each other by an engagement of each of the engaging portions during at least one of an opening operation and a closing operation of the sunshade. | 03-29-2012 |
20120112498 | Roof apparatus - A roof apparatus includes a guide rail extending in a front-rear direction of a vehicle, a drive shoe, a functional bracket, a front link member relatively rotatably connected at a front portion of the functional bracket and including a connecting portion, an engagement portion and a supporting portion, and a lifting mechanism connected at a rear portion of the functional bracket, wherein the guide rail includes a first guide portion guiding the supporting portion in response to an opening and closing operation of a movable panel and being closely located upwardly and downwardly of the supporting portion while the movable panel is in a fully-closed state, and the drive shoe includes a second guide portion guiding the engagement portion in response to the opening and closing operation of the movable panel and being closely located upwardly and downwardly of the engagement portion during the fully-closed state of the movable panel. | 05-10-2012 |
20120112499 | Roof apparatus - A roof apparatus includes a guide rail extending in a front-rear direction of a vehicle, a drive shoe slidable along the guide rail, a functional bracket supporting a movable panel, a front link member relatively rotatably connected at a front portion of the functional bracket and including a supporting portion supported by a supporting wall portion of the guide rail, a lifting mechanism connected to a rear portion of the functional bracket, a weather strip attached at an opening edge portion of a roof panel, the supporting wall portion of the guide rail and the supporting portion of the front link member are located inwardly of an outer end surface of the movable panel in a vehicle width direction, the drive shoe is located below the weather strip, and the front link member is located between the supporting wall portion and the drive shoe in the vehicle width direction. | 05-10-2012 |
20120193944 | ROOF APPARATUS - A roof apparatus includes a functional bracket supporting a movable panel, a guide rail, a drive shoe moving along the guide rail, a front link connected to the functional bracket to move in conjunction with the movement of the drive shoe, a rear link connected with the drive shoe to support the functional bracket, front and rear restriction portions arranged at the front link, front and rear restriction portions arranged at the rear link, a first distance defined between the front restriction portion of the front link and the rear restriction portion of the rear link, and a second distance defined between the rear restriction portion of the front link and the rear restriction portion of the rear link, wherein the front link and the rear link are arranged at different positions on a plain surface extending in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the guide rail extends. | 08-02-2012 |
20120193945 | ROOF APPARATUS - A roof apparatus includes a functional bracket supporting a movable panel, a guide rail extending in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle, a drive shoe moving along the guide rail, a front link connected to the functional bracket to move in the longitudinal direction in conjunction with the movement of the drive shoe, a front guide portion guiding the functional bracket and the front link in the longitudinal direction, a check member engaged with the drive shoe to move rearward with the drive shoe when a distance of the rearward movement of the drive shoe is shorter than a predetermined distance, the check member disengaged from the drive shoe when the distance of the rearward movement of the drive shoe is equal to or longer than the predetermined distance, a rear link engaged with the check member, and a rear guide portion guiding the rear link in the longitudinal direction. | 08-02-2012 |
20130147237 | VEHICLE SUNROOF DEVICE - A vehicle sunroof device includes a movable panel, guide rails, rear slide members, an electrical drive source, and check mechanisms. When the rear slide members are moved toward the front of the vehicle along the guide rails when the movable panel is in a totally closed state, the movable panel is changed to a tilt-up state. Check release mechanisms provided to the rear slide members are changed to an engaged state when the rear slide members are further moved toward the front of the vehicle with the movable panel in the tilt-up state and without involving operation of the movable panel. In the engaged state, when the rear slide members are moved toward the rear of the vehicle afterward, the check release mechanisms move the entire check mechanisms while switching the check mechanisms to a movable state. | 06-13-2013 |
20130249255 | DEFLECTOR APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - Provided is a deflector apparatus for a vehicle including a deflector that is installed at a front edge portion of an opening portion formed in a roof portion and that is capable of being unfolded so as to protrude onto the face of the roof portion, the deflector including an upper frame and a lower frame that extend along the front edge portion, a mesh member that has both terminal portions in a lateral direction buried in the upper frame and the lower frame, respectively, and extends along the front edge portion, and a reinforcing member that is buried in at least one of the upper frame and the lower frame and extends along the front edge portion, in which the reinforcing member is formed with a hollow portion that communicates in the extending direction of the reinforcing member and opens from the upper frame or the lower frame. | 09-26-2013 |
20130307295 | ROOF APPARATUS - A roof apparatus includes a weather strip arranged at a position where a frontward link member and a rearward link member slide thereon at a position outward of either a first edge portion of a front panel or a second edge portion of a rear panel in a state where the front panel makes a sliding movement. Each of the frontward link member and the rearward link member includes a frontward guide surface and a rearward guide surface generating a component of force that makes the weather strip to resiliently deform upwardly, the frontward guide surface and the rearward guide surface arranged at end surfaces of the frontward guide surface and the rearward guide surface, the end surfaces that come into contact with the weather strip first in a state where the frontward link member and the rearward link member move in a frontward-rearward direction together with the front panel. | 11-21-2013 |
20130307296 | ROOF APPARATUS - A roof apparatus includes a weather strip including a portion to be retained, and first and second seal portions which are connected to an upper end of the portion to be retained. A thickness of the first seal portion gradually reduces from a first end portion positioned at an upper end side of the portion to be retained towards a first turned back portion, and gradually increases from the first turned back portion towards a second end portion provided at a lower end portion of the portion to be retained. A thickness of the second end portion is smaller than that of the first end portion. A distance in a vehicle height direction from a lower end of the first seal portion to the first turned back portion is greater than a distance from an upper end of the first seal portion to the first turned back portion. | 11-21-2013 |
20140117724 | SUNSHADE DEVICE - A sunshade device is provided with a shading sheet adapted to shade light incident through an opening formed in the vehicle to an interior of a passenger compartment or to permit the passage of the light. The shading sheet moves along a pair of guide rails having guide passages, which slidably support both ends of the shading sheet in the lateral direction of the vehicle. The sunshade device is provided with shielding members extending in the longitudinal direction of the guide rails and shielding the guide passages from the interior of the passenger compartment. | 05-01-2014 |
20140203597 | ROOF APPARATUS - A roof apparatus includes a movable panel, a guide rail, a first rail portion and a second rail portion which are provided at the guide rail in a manner that at least a part of the first rail portion and at least a part of the second rail portion are overlapped with each other in the vehicle width direction, a front side guide member including a guide groove, a front side link member including a support protruding portion which is movable along the second rail portion or along the guide groove which is inclined in a vehicle upward direction towards a vehicle rear direction, and a transmission member which is movable along the first rail portion, and is linked to a rear side link member connected to the movable panel and is linked to the front side link member. | 07-24-2014 |
20140312658 | ROOF APPARATUS - A roof apparatus includes: panels juxtaposed in a longitudinal direction and configured to cover an opening formed in a roof of a vehicle, a first panel serving as one of the panels; downward-erected walls extending to both edge portions in a width direction of the first panel along the longitudinal direction, and extending downward; a sealing member extending along the width direction on an edge portion of a second panel facing the first panel in the longitudinal direction, the second panel serving as one of the panels, and being arranged in front of or behind the first panel, the sealing member having a sealing portion which can be in liquid-tight contact with an edge end and a lower surface of the edge portion the first panel, and a tip portion of the sealing member having notches; and panel side protruding portions disposed to protrude in the width direction where the panel side protruding portions face both of the downward-erected walls. | 10-23-2014 |
20150061326 | ROOF APPARATUS - A roof apparatus includes: a movable panel opening and closing an opening of a roof of a vehicle; a mounting member including a mounting wall extending upright in one direction along an edge portion of the opening; and a weather strip having an attaching portion including pinching strips pinching the mounting wall therebetween, a first seal portion connected to the attaching portion and coming into liquid-tight contact with an opening end edge, and a second seal portion connected to the attaching portion and coming into liquid-tight contact with a peripheral edge in a fully closed state. A mounting depression depressed in the inner and outer direction of the vehicle is formed on the mounting wall. The attaching portion includes a lip portion connected to one of the pinching strips facing the mounting depression, and engageably inserted into the mounting depression. | 03-05-2015 |
20150076868 | ROOF APPARATUS - A roof apparatus includes plural panels including a first panel for opening and closing an opening, and a second panel being positioned at a front or a rear of a vehicle and next to the first panel, the second panel being fixed to establish a state where the opening is closed. The roof apparatus further includes a weather strip including a weather strip body being attached to an entire periphery of the opening of a roof, the weather strip body sealing a portion between an opening rim of the opening and a peripheral rim formed by the plural panels, a border weather strip attached to the second panel and sealing a border portion between the first panel and the second panel, and a connection portion integrally connecting the weather strip body and each opposing end of the border weather strip in a vehicle width direction. | 03-19-2015 |