Roof apparatus
AssigneeAisin Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShintaro KATSURA, Ryuta Fukada
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Abstract
A roof apparatus includes a movable panel configured to open and close an opening formed at a roof of a vehicle, a pair of guide rails provided at respective edge portions of the opening in a vehicle width direction and being extended in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, a pair of support brackets provided at respective edge portions of the movable panel in the vehicle width direction and supported at the pair of guide rails to be movable and slidable relative to the guide rails, the movable panel being configured to be opened while maintaining a tilt-up state, and a wall portion provided at a front edge portion of each of the support brackets at an upper side of each of the guide rails.
Claims14
A roof apparatus comprising:
- a movable panel configured to open and close an opening formed at a roof of a vehicle;
- a pair of guide rails provided at respective edge portions of the opening in a vehicle width direction and being extended in a front-rear direction of the vehicle;
- a pair of support brackets provided at respective edge portions of the movable panel in the vehicle width direction and supported at the pair of guide rails to be movable and slidable relative to the guide rails;
- the movable panel being configured to be opened while maintaining a tilt-up state;
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- a wall portion provided at a front edge portion of each of the support brackets at an upper side of each of the guide rails.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.