Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Hidekazu Otowa

Hidefumi Sonoda

Kazuhiro Okada

Tadao Kaneko

Minoru Shibata

Takahiro Komori

Kenichiro Hayashi

Kazuhisa Nagata

Akira Nishimura

Makoto Mimoto

Fumitake Kobayashi

Kazuhisa Sawada

Masahiko Yanagihara

A defroster nozzle is provided inside an instrument panel below a front glass plate, and its length in the direction of vehicle width is gradually increased from a suck-in opening to a blow-out opening. The suck-in opening is connected to an air conditioning unit, and has a bent portion at the middle thereof. The inside of the defroster nozzle is divided by partition walls into a central chamber and side chambers. The length of the central chamber as viewed in the direction of vehicle width is gradually increased from the suck-in opening to the blow-out opening, and the opening areas of the suck-in opening and the blow-out opening of the central chamber are equal to each other. The central portion of the side wall of each of the side chambers has a bent portion. The length of each of the side chambers as viewed in the direction of vehicle width is increased gradually from the bent portion to the blow-out opening, and at each of the bent portion the cross-sectional area of the side chamber is smaller than the opening area on the side of the suck-in opening. At each of the side chambers, the opening area on the side of the blow-out opening is smaller than the opening area on the side of the suck-in opening.

Defroster nozzle

A sunroof assembly includes a housing secured to the inner side of a roof panel to surround an opening, a guide rail attached to each of opposing sides of the housing, a shoe disposed in the guide rail so as to be freely slidable longitudinally of the vehicle, a sliding panel connected to the shoe via a cam member for opening and closing the opening of the roof panel, and a driving source for sliding the shoe along the guide rail longitudinally of the vehicle, wherein a pin provided on the shoe is capable of moving in a cam groove of the cam member. One end of a link is pivotally attached to the pin of the shoe, and the other end is pivotally attached to one end of a lever member. The latter is slidably connected to a bracket, which is secured to the cam member and the sliding panel, so as to be relatively movable longitudinally of the vehicle in operative association with the shoe. When the sliding panel is in a fully closed state with the pin of the shoe at a forward end of the cam groove, the lever member is turned downwardly by a pin implanted in the bracket, so that the lever member is accommodated in a space between the slide channels of the guide rails.

Outer sliding-type sunroof

An apparatus for preventing discharge of fuel vapor to the atmosphere by allowing fuel vapor in a fuel tank to be adsorbed by an adsorbing device when a fuel lid is opened. A switch is turned on by the movement of a locking member for locking and unlocking the fuel lid so as to detect the opening of the fuel lid. The arrangement facilitates adjustment of the relative positions of the switch and the locking member. In addition, the switch is turned on when the fuel lid is opened by remote control, while the switch is turned off when the fuel lid is manually closed. The discharge of fuel vapor to the atmosphere during refueling and the influx of fuel vapor into the adsorbing device after the charging of fuel are prevented.

Apparatus for preventing discharge of fuel vapor

An apparatus for preventing discharge of fuel vapor to the atmosphere by allowing fuel vapor in a fuel tank to be adsorbed by an adsorbing device when a fuel lid is opened. A switch is secured to a mounting bracket for rotatably supporting a fuel lid opener lever mounted in a vehicle compartment. The switch is turned on by the operation of the remote lever that opens the fuel lid, and fuel vapor is adsorbed by charcoal in a canister. The switch is adjustably secured to the mounting bracket, to facilitate positioning the pushbutton of the switch relative to the lid opening lever.

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Hidekazu Otowa