Roof apparatus for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8967706-B2
Application number	US-201313894462-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 15, 2013
Priority date	May 21, 2012
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

A roof apparatus for a vehicle includes a movable panel configured to open and close an opening portion, a sunshade configured to be opened in association with an opening operation of the movable panel, a guide rail, a sliding member causing the movable panel in a fully-closed state to move to a tilt state and to perform the opening operation, an engaging member mounted on a front portion of the movable panel and including an engaging portion and a mounting portion at which the engaging member is mounted on the movable panel, the engaging portion is arranged at a vehicle front side relative to the mounting portion, and an engaged member provided at the sunshade, the engaged member is pressed by the engaging portion when the movable panel performs the opening operation.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A roof apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
a movable panel configured to open and close an opening portion provided at a roof portion of a vehicle;
a sunshade configured to adjust light transmission at the opening portion and configured to be opened in association with an opening operation of the movable panel;
a guide rail provided at an edge portion of the opening portion in a vehicle width direction and extending in a vehicle front/rear direction;
a sliding member connected to an edge portion of the movable panel in the vehicle width direction and being movable along the guide rail in the vehicle front/rear direction, the sliding member causing the movable panel in a fully-closed state to move to a tilt state and causing the movable panel to perform the opening operation, by moving in the vehicle front/rear direction;
an engaging member mounted on a front portion of the movable panel in the vehicle front/rear direction, and including an engaging portion and a mounting portion at which the engaging member is mounted on the movable panel, the engaging portion being arranged at a vehicle front side relative to the mounting portion and extending downwardly; and
an engaged member provided at the sunshade to be arranged at a vehicle rear side relative to the engaging portion of the engaging member and extending upwardly from the sunshade, the engaged member being pressed by the engaging portion when the movable panel performs the opening operation; wherein
the mounting portion of the engaging member includes a mounting hole;
the engaging portion is arranged at a inner side in the vehicle width direction relative to a fastener inserted through the mounting hole; and
the engaging member includes a shielding portion covering the fastener from an inside of a vehicle cabin.

2. The roof apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a front housing connected to a front end portion of the guide rail in the vehicle front/rear direction and extending in the vehicle width direction, wherein
the engaging portion of the engaging member is arranged at an inner side in the vehicle width direction relative to the guide rail, and
the engaging member is configured in a manner that mounting of the engaging member relative to the movable panel is adjustable in the vehicle front/rear direction.

3. The roof apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a front housing connected to a front end portion of the guide rail in the vehicle front/rear direction and extending in the vehicle width direction, wherein
the engaging portion of the engaging member is arranged at an inner side in the vehicle width direction relative to the guide rail,
the mounting hole has an elongated circular shape and includes an allowance for adjustment in the vehicle front/rear direction, and
the engaging member is fastened to the front portion of the movable panel in the vehicle front/rear direction by means of the fastener inserted through the mounting hole.

4. The roof apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a width of the engaged member is wider than a width of the engaging portion of the engaging member in the vehicle width direction.

5. The roof apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a garnish covering the sliding member from an inside of a vehicle cabin, wherein the engaging member spans over the garnish in the vehicle width direction and the engaging portion of the engaging member extends downwardly.

6. The roof apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the movable panel is configured to perform a tilt-up movement in which a rear portion of the movable panel moves upwardly relative to a front portion of the movable panel in the vehicle front/rear direction, and
the engaging member and the engaged member are out of contact with each other when the movable panel is in a tilt-up state.

Assignees

• Aisin Seiki

Inventors

• Ide Yoshitaka
• Matsui Tatsuya
• Fukada Ryuta
• Muranaka Makoto

Classifications

• B60J7/0435

  pivoting upwardly to vent mode and moving at the outside of the roof to fully open mode · CPC title

• B60J7/0038 Primary

  stored in stacked fashion · CPC title

• B60J7/003 Primary

  one or more sliding rigid plate or lammellae · CPC title

• B60J7/043

  Sunroofs (B60J7/047 - B60J7/053 take precedence){e.g. sliding above the roof} · CPC title