Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin World Corp. of America

Kinju Uchida

Kenji Hori

Yoshitaka Nakamura

Kiyozumi Fukami

Takashi Kikuta

Hiroshi Makino

Nobuyasu Bessho

Chitose Nishiyama

Hiroyuki Ida

Katsutoshi Kato

Kentaro Hirose

Robert E Gore

Atsushi Ikeda

Samson Asfaw

A sunroof apparatus includes a panel, a sunroof unit including a frame portion, and a pair of housings connecting a pair of front ends and a pair of rear ends of side frames in a vehicle width direction, and a sealing member formed in an annular shape, the sealing member attached to the frame portion, the sealing member arranged between the frame portion and a peripheral rim portion of an opening in a vehicle height direction over a whole periphery of the peripheral rim portion. The housings each is formed with an injection space formed in a tapered shape opening so as to include a meeting surface of the side frame, the meeting surface facing the housing, the injection space provided at a connection part between the housing and a part of the side frame, the part disposed above the sealing member. The injection space is filled with a sealant.

Sunroof apparatus

A sunroof apparatus includes: a movable panel adapted to open and close an opening formed in a roof of a vehicle; a guide rail provided in each edge portion of the opening in a width direction of the vehicle such that the guide rail is positioned below the movable panel in a height direction of the vehicle; an attachment member fixed to the movable panel, including a flange extending toward an interior side in the width direction in each edge portion in the width direction, in which an attachment recessed portion is formed in the flange; and a shielding body including interposing pieces which are provided to extend in a forward and rearward direction of the vehicle, slidably engaged with the guide rail, and extending in the width direction of the vehicle while being spaced away from each other in the height direction of the vehicle.

A sunroof apparatus includes: a movable panel adapted to open and close an opening formed in a roof of a vehicle; a guide rail provided in each edge portion of the opening in a lateral direction, and including upper and lower flanges extending in the lateral direction and a connecting wall through which the respective outside ends of the upper and lower flanges in the lateral direction are connected to each other in the vertical direction; and a shielding body attached to each edge portion of the movable panel in the lateral direction, and including an extending piece that extends to the outside in the lateral direction while being interposed between the upper and lower flanges, wherein the shielding body includes first and second projections which are provided in the extending piece and can be respectively brought into contact with the upper and lower flanges.

A sunroof device includes a roof panel having a first opening portion, a ceiling member having a second opening portion so as to face the first opening portion, a movable panel moved between a full-closed position and an open position, the movable panel passing through a half-closed position, a motor for driving the movable panel, a controlling means for controlling an operation of the motor, an operating member to be operated or released by a passenger in the vehicle, and a switch for inputting an operation signal for operating the motor, and inputting a stop signal for stopping the motor. The controlling means drives the motor until the movable panel reaches the full-closed position while moving towards the full-closed position by the operating member being operated even if the operating member is released after the movable panel reaches the half-closed position.

Sunroof device

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Kariya, Japan

Kinju Uchida