Mitsuba Corporation

Masayuki Oota

Yasushi Yoshida

Takao Ochiai

The sunroof driving device includes an electric motor, a worm gear provided on an armature shaft of the electric motor, a worm wheel gear meshing with the worm gear, an output shaft coupled with the worm wheel gear, and a drive gear which is provided on the output shaft and which meshes with a wire for driving a roof panel. A panel-position detecting mechanism for detecting the position of the roof panel and a tool hole for manually driving the roof panel in emergency are disposed coaxially with the output shaft. The tool hole is formed in the main shaft of the panel-position detecting mechanism. Also, the armature shaft is constituted so as to slide from the output shaft side, thus coupling the worm wheel gear and the output shaft with each other without any clutch interposed therebetween. The output shaft is provided with a fitting hole which provides the body-side manual operation section for manually driving the roof panel in emergency. The panel-position detecting mechanism is formed on the output shaft as a unit detachable therefrom and also has a tool hole as the unit-side manual operation section.

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Seta-gun, Japan

Masayuki Oota