Vehicle sunroof device
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuki Sawada
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Abstract
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.
Claims8
A vehicle sunroof device comprising:
- a movable panel that opens and closes an opening formed in a roof of a vehicle;
- a guide rail arranged on two edges of the opening in a widthwise direction of the vehicle, wherein the guide rail extends in front and rear directions of the vehicle;
- a rear slide member linked to two edges at a rear portion of the movable panel in the widthwise direction and arranged to be movable along the guide rail in the front and rear directions of the vehicle;
- an electric drive source that moves the rear slide member;
- a check mechanism hooked to two edges at a front portion of the movable panel in a swingable manner, wherein the check mechanism is selectively switched between an immovable state, in which the check mechanism is held at a predetermined position frontward from the rear slide member in the front and rear directions of the vehicle, and a movable state, in which the check mechanism is allowed to move toward the rear of the vehicle from the predetermined position, and wherein when the movable panel is in a fully closed state, the rear slide member moves along the guide rail toward the front of the vehicle to lift the movable panel at its rear side about the front portion hooked to the check mechanism in the immovable state and thereby shift the movable panel to a tilt-up state;
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- a check cancellation mechanism arranged on the rear slide member, wherein
- the check cancellation mechanism, in the tilt-up state, is switched to an engaged state as the slide member further moves toward the front of the vehicle without moving the movable panel, and the check cancellation mechanism, in the engaged state, integrally moves the check mechanism as subsequent movement of the rear slide member toward the rear of the vehicle switches the check mechanism to the movable state, and
- as the rear slide member further moves toward the front of the vehicle without moving the movable panel in the engaged state, the check cancellation mechanism is switched to a disengaged state and released from the check mechanism.
A vehicle sunroof device comprising:
- a movable panel that opens and closes an opening formed in a roof of a vehicle;
- a guide rail arranged on two edges of the opening in a widthwise direction of the vehicle, wherein the guide rail extends in front and rear directions of the vehicle;
- a slide member linked to two edges at the movable panel in the widthwise direction and arranged to be movable along the guide rail in the front and rear directions of the vehicle;
- an electric drive source that moves the slide member;
- a check mechanism arranged in the guide rail so as to be selectively switched between an immovable state, in which the check mechanism is held at a predetermined position, and a movable state, in which the check mechanism is allowed to move toward the rear of the vehicle from the predetermined position, and wherein when the movable panel is in a fully closed state, the slide member moves along the guide rail toward the front of the vehicle to lift the movable panel at its rear side about a front portion in the immovable state and thereby shift the movable panel to a tilt-up state;
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- a check cancellation mechanism arranged on the slide member, wherein
- the check cancellation mechanism, in the tilt-up state, is switched to an engaged state as the slide member further moves toward the front of the vehicle without moving the movable panel, and the check cancellation mechanism, in the engaged state, integrally moves the check mechanism as subsequent movement of the slide member toward the rear of the vehicle switches the check mechanism to the movable state, and
- as the slide member further moves toward the front of the vehicle without moving the movable panel in the engaged state, the check cancellation mechanism is switched to a disengaged state and released from the check mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.