Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.

Yachiyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yachiyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisya

Kuniyasu Aoki

Hajime Katayama

Shigehito Horiuchi

Masaharu Ohnishi

Makoto Kurita

Masafumi Nakagawa

Masatoshi Nishida

Seiji Katakura

Shuhei Hamada

Masayuki Watarai

Shigehito Horiuti

Toshiaki Kuroi

Koichi Hotta

Akira Murasawa

Takashi Ueno

A roof panel attached to a roof of a vehicle so that the roof panel can be tilted up, and a wind lip provided in peripheral edge portion of the lower surface of the roof panel. The wind lip projects toward the inside of the vehicle. Further, a drain groove extending in up-and-down direction is formed on an outer surface of the wind lip.

Drain structure of roof panel

A sheet member with a frame body in the present invention has the sheet member and the frame body composed of a resin material attached to a fringe of the sheet member, wherein the frame body opens in an outward direction parallel with a sheet face of the sheet member and in the frame body a fit-in groove is formed to fit in a fit-in object, and wherein the fit-in groove is formed so as to have an overlap space with the sheet member in a direction parallel with the sheet face of the sheet member.

Sheet member with frame body

A sunroof apparatus for a vehicle includes a sunroof panel, a panel holder, a lip member, a sealing member and a lip for wind noise. The panel holder supports the sunroof panel internally relative to a cabin of the vehicle. The lip member is attached to an end portion of the panel holder. The sealing member is attached to the lip member. The lip for wind noise extends from the lip member towards inside of the cabin. An end portion of the lip for wind noise is adapted to lie closer to the sunroof panel than an end portion of the panel holder.

Sunroof apparatus for a vehicle

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Tochigi, Japan

Kuniyasu Aoki