Shiroki Corporation

Aisin Corporation

Atsushi Muramatsu

Kenji Yamamoto

Kenichi Suzuki

Yoshiki Sugita

Toru Ikoma

Kimihiro Kinoshita

Natsuki Ito

Takahisa Kobayashi

Norio Kato

Kazuya Yokoyama

Yoshiki Tanabe

A step apparatus for a vehicle includes: an arm rotatably provided on a base; and a step supported by the arm and movably provided, by rotation of the arm, between a deployed position and a stowed position located at an inner side of a vehicle width direction with respect to the deployed position. The step apparatus for a vehicle is in, by the rotation of the arm, a deployed state in which the step is disposed at the deployed position and the step is to be used or a stowed state in which the step is disposed at the stowed position and stowed under a vehicle body. At least one of the step and the base includes a contact portion to be brought into contact with the other one. The contact portion is provided to contact the other one of the step and the base when the step is disposed at the stowed position.

Step apparatus for vehicle

A step apparatus for a vehicle includes a base attached to an outer side of a vehicle body, an arm rotatably provided on the base, and a step supported by the arm and movable with respect to the base. The step apparatus for a vehicle is in, by rotation of the arm, a deployed state in which the step is to be used or a stowed state in which the step is stowed under the vehicle body. A first rotation axis of a base end of the arm and a second rotation axis of a tip end of the arm are inclined upward toward an outer side of a vehicle width direction in an attached state in which the step apparatus for a vehicle is attached to the vehicle body.

The vehicle component fastening structure includes: a boss receptacle and a boss provided in a pair of the vehicle components, and a fastening member for fastening the boss and the boss receptacle. The boss receptacle has a through-hole penetrating in a fastening axis direction and a nipped portion provided inside the through-hole. The boss has a fastener hole, and a leading end of the boss oriented to a first direction abuts on the nipped portion. The fastening member has a shank inserted into the through-hole and the fastener hole in a second direction and a head abutting on the nipped portion. In the fastened state, a bottom face of the head abuts on the nipped portion, and the entire bottom face and a portion of the nipped portion where the leading end of the boss abuts are placed within a range of the through-hole in the fastening axis direction.

Vehicle component fastening structure

A wire type window regulator for vehicle that allows easily guiding a drive wire to a wire insertion clearance of a wire guide member and/or a drum housing during assembly is obtained. A wire guide member includes a wire guide groove around which the drive wire is wound, a wire disconnection prevention portion, and an inclination guide surface. The wire disconnection prevention portion is disposed to extend from one region to another region of regions on both sides between which the wire guide groove is interposed. The wire disconnection prevention portion forms a wire insertion clearance from which the drive wire is introducible to the wire guide groove with the other region. The inclination guide surface is disposed in the other region. The inclination guide surface guides the drive wire introduced to the wire guide groove to the wire insertion clearance.

Wire type window regulator for vehicle

A window regulator includes a guide rail fixed to a vehicle door panel and a slider base that supports a window glass and is slidably supported in a longitudinal direction of the guide rail along sliding surfaces on a front and a back of the guide rail. The guide rail includes a sliding portion that has a first sliding surface and a second sliding surface that face one direction and another direction in a vehicle inner-outer direction. The slider base includes a grease injection portion that includes an injection space and a grease receiving portion. The injection space opens to the vehicle inner-outer direction. The first sliding surface of the guide rail is positioned inside the injection space. The grease receiving portion is positioned opposed to the second sliding surface of the guide rail. The grease receiving portion receives a grease injected in the injection space.

Window regulator

A wire type window regulator includes a guide rail, a wire driving mechanism, and a wire guide member. The guide rail guides a slider base to freely move up and down. A window glass is fixed to the slider base. The wire driving mechanism moves the slider base up/down along the guide rail via a drive wire. The wire guide member is disposed on at least one of an upper end and a lower end of the guide rail. The wire guide member changes a routing direction of the drive wire wound around the wire guide member. The wire guide member supports a fixing member that is inserted through the guide rail and that fixes the guide rail and the wire guide member to the vehicle door panel.

Wire type window regulator

An assembling determination method and an assembling determination device for a vehicular opening-closing body driving device can determine a normal/abnormal winding of a drive wire around a spiral groove to ensure a quick and accurate action. The assembling determination method includes winding a drive wire around the spiral groove on the peripheral surface of a drive drum, wherein the drive wire drives a vehicular opening-closing body, arranging an inspection jig to face the drive drum surface via a clearance, determining that the drive wire is wound around the spiral groove in an abnormal manner when the inspection jig contacts the drive wire, and determining that the drive wire to be wound around the spiral groove in a normal manner when the inspection jig and the drive wire are contactless.

Assembling determination method and assembling determination device for vehicular opening-closing body driving device

A drive device includes a drum housing rotatably supports a drum, allows an outer tube end to be inserted into an outer tube connecting portion and allows a wire to pass through a wire passage portion, and a drive member rotates the drum. An anti-deflection portion limits deflection of the wire and is formed on the drum housing/drive member. The anti-deflection portion includes a range surrounded by a line connecting one end of the formation range of the spiral groove and one end of the formation range of the insertion hole at the outer tube end connected to the outer tube connecting portion and a line connecting the other end of the spiral groove formation range and the other end of the insertion hole formation range at the end of the outer tube connected to the outer tube connecting portion, in the rotational axis direction of the drum.

Drive device for opening/closing body for vehicle

The method includes a step of fixing the other end of the drive wire to the drive drum; a step of temporarily placing one end of the drive wire in a temporary placement portion provided on the drum housing; and a step of applying tension to the drive wire by moving the one end of the drive wire to an engaging portion provided on the drive drum after canceling the placed state of the one end of the drive wire in the temporary placement portion by pulling a portion of the drive wire on the one end side thereof by winding a portion of the drive wire on the other end side thereof by the drive drum with the one end of the drive wire placed in the temporary placement portion.

Window regulator manufacturing method and tension applying method for drive wire

A vehicle window regulator includes a slider base supported on a guide rail; a drive wire connected to the slider base; a wire guide supported at one end of the guide rail and having a winding part, onto which the drive wire is wound, at a position offset from the guide rail in a vehicle width direction; and a driver which raises and lowers the slider base via the drive wire. The wire guide is supported by the guide rail by a retainer and a pressing portion, the retainer engaged with the guide rail, and the pressing portion being engaged with the guide rail to press the guide rail toward the other end of the guide rail. The pressing portion is formed at a position toward the other end and formed at a position offset from the retainer toward the winding part.

Window regulator for vehicle

In a window regulator which moves a slider base, slidable along a guide rail, via a pair of wires, the slider base is configured of: a body member made of synthetic resin which is slidably supported by the guide rail and to which each wire is connected; and a support member made of metal which supports a window glass, and the support member is provided with a holding portion which holds the body member in the widthwise direction of the guide rail. This configuration makes it possible to achieve a window regulator in which the slider base is not easily warped or deformed when an external force is exerted thereon and which is superior in strength and durability.

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Fujisawa, Japan

Atsushi Muramatsu