Nissan Motor Company Limited

Ohi Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Ryoji Fujihara

Tsutomu Iwasaki

Kouichi Yagami

Satoshi Ishizuka

Kazuaki Furuse

Tomio Ono

Ryo Tsuruo

Hiromi Koyama

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

An open-top type vehicle roof structure is composed of a frame structure having left and right roof openings separated by a longitudinal center beam, and left and right removable roof lids closing the left and right openings and concealing the center beam under the roof surface. Front and rear latch plates are fixed to the underside of each latch plate near the inner end. The center beam is provided with front and rear receiving members each of which is fixed on the top of center beam, and formed with left and right latch holes for receiving the latch plates of the left and right lids. Each of the latch plates may be formed with an upward flange for preventing an undesired release of the lid by engaging with one of downward flanges of one receiving member, or may be formed with a rectangular corner cut for receiving the projecting end of the opposite latch plate.

Vehicle roof structure having left and right removable roof lids

A roof structure of a vehicle is composed of left and right removable roof lids, and a frame having front and rear portions, a longitudinal center beam connecting the front and rear portions, and left and right roof openings which are separated by the center beam between the front and rear portions, and closed by the left and right roof lids. Front and rear receiving members each having left and right latch holes are fixedly mounted on the center beam. Front and rear L-shaped latch plates are fixed to the underside of an inboard portion of each lid so that the front and rear latch plates are inserted in the latch holes of the front and rear receiving members, interlocking with each other, for securing the lid to the frame. Each of the receiving members further has a top wall which is formed with a stopper projection projecting upwardly. Each lid further has front and rear slider members of resin which abut against the stopper projections of the front and rear receiving members in installing and removing the lid to facilitate installation and removal.

Vehicle roof structure having longitudinal beam and left and right

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Tokyo, Japan

Ryoji Fujihara