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Ohi Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Ryo Tsuruo

Hiroshi Okada

Yoshihiro Yamashita

Nobuo Ito

Masanobu Ohtsu

Yoshifumi Horiuchi

Kenichi Kuriyama

Masaki Ohmori

Tomio Ono

Ryoji Fujihara

Hiromi Koyama

A vehicle sunroof has a tilting lid provided at a front part of an opening formed in a roof of a vehicle. The tilting lid is adapted to be moved vertically at a rear end thereof with lifter mechanisms. A sliding lid is provided at a rear part of the opening supported by sliders adapted to be moved along guide rails disposed on both side edge portions of the opening and is constructed so as to be moved longitudinally through such movements of the sliders. The lifter mechanisms are provided in such a manner as to be oriented laterally at portions facing a rear end of the tilting lid on a laterally oriented cross member disposed so as to extend between front end portions of the left and right guide rails.

Vehicle sunroof device

A sunroof device for vehicles uses rods in place of the cable, which is inserted in a guide rail in the convention sunroof device. In addition to guide members, a shoe is provided at a predetermined position on each rod such that the shoe is located closer to the inner wall of the guide rail than the outer peripheral surface of the rod when viewed in cross section.

Sunroof device for a vehicle

A lock device for locking a detachable roof to a car body, which a housing mounted to the detachable roof, the housing defining a certain clearance through which the interior of the housing is exposed to the outside of the housing; a handle lever including a base portion pivotally arranged in the housing and a grip portion projected into the outside of the housing, the base portion being formed with a curved guide slot which has at least a locking part; a lock member linked to the handle lever in such a manner that, when the handle lever is pivoted to a lock position, the lock member becomes operative and, when the handle lever is pivoted to an unlock position, the lock member becomes inoperative; a guide pin movably received in the housing and slidably engaged with the curved guide slot of the handle lever, the guide pin suppressing the handle lever from pivoting from the lock position toward the unlock position when received in the locking part of the guide slot; a slide member incorporated with the guide pin, the slide member being movable in a given direction to disengage the guide pin from the locking part; a lockable stopper which can assume a locking position to suppress the movement of the slide member in the given direction; and a wall member raised from the slide member in a manner to conceal the guide pin from the certain clearance.

Lock device for detachable roof

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Kanagawa, Japan

Ryo Tsuruo