Webasto Se

Koji Sawahata

Toru Shibue

Shigeru Ueki

Takeshi Mizoguchi

Masaya Kobatake

A collapsible deflector member of a sunroof device including a front portion on the front side of an opening and corner portions extending rearward from the front portion, respectively, a lower edge fixed to a lower edge of the deflector and attached to a fore part of a frame structure, an upper edge supporting an upper edge of the deflector, and arms end connected to one of longitudinal ends of the upper edge in a manner that allows the arm end to move. Upper edges of the front portion and the corner portions of the deflector include a bag-shaped fitting portion fitted onto the upper edge, and in the arm, an arc-shaped portion inserted into the corner portion of the deflector is formed at the arm end, and a connecting portion positioned on an end side of the arc-shaped portion and connected to an end of the upper edge.

Deflector mechanism of sunroof device

To allow receiving rain water by moving a drip member upward and downward in a substantially horizontal direction with a tilting motion of a roof panel, a drip mechanism has a drip member including a trough in an upper surface and covering the entire length of a lower side of a rear edge of a roof panel; left and right movable bodies disposed on guiderails in left and right side portions of a frame; a lifting unit connecting the drip member to the left and right movable bodies that allows the drip member to move upward and downward; and an interlocking member connecting the drip member with the roof panel. In the lifting unit, front and rear link members connect the drip member with the movable body and a member urging, in a rising direction, portions of these front and rear link members and on the drip member-connected side.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Koji Sawahata