Suzuki Motor Company

Keiichi Asai

Kazunobu Hori

Tomoyoshi Watanabe

Chizuko Mochizuki

Fumihiko Ogawa

Disclosed is a vehicle construction of an automobile provided with a slide door being used in a front door of an automobile and having an upper side front end positioned at the rear of a lower side front end, roller assemblies provided in an upper side front end, a lower side front end and an intermediate of back end portion, and guide rails for supporting the roller assemblies arranged in an upper, a lower and an intermediate portions of a car body.

Vehicle construction of automobile provided with slide door

The present invention relates to a car providing a sliding door comprising guide rails mounted along an entry opening formed on the front half section of a car body and a sliding door used as a front door to be slid through a roller assembly to be engaged with each guide rail when it is opened or shut. In this car, the sliding amount of the sliding door is regulated so as to disable the rear end of the sliding door to be projected from the rear end of a car body when it is opened. And, in order to enable the entry opening opening to be fully opened, an auxiliary handle is providced in addition to an outside handle and an inside handle. Further, the invention also relates to improvement of opening or shutting mechanism and structure of the sliding door.

Car providing a sliding door

The present invention resides in a motor-vehicle having a sliding door, wherein the sliding door is used as a front door of the motor-vehicle, and the sliding door has its front portion formed with an inclined configuration to match the shape of the front pillar, whereas upper, center and lower guide rollers are provided at the sliding door and upper, center and lower guide rails which serve to support these guide rollers are provided along the side panel, and wherein the upper guide rail is provided behind the lower guide rail and the upper guide rail is extended upto an area which is situated more backwardly than the passenger access opening.

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