Howa Textile Industry Co., Ltd.

Tatsuro Ito

Takashi Mihara

Shogo Okado

Fumihiro Funahashi

Kazuo Sugiura

A sunshade includes a cut-out panel formed by cutting a portion from a ceiling panel for opening a ceiling window and injection-molded rigid edge members made of synthetic resin and fixed to a front edge, both side edges and a rear edge of the cut-out panel so as to surround the cut-out panel. The rigid edge members are fixed to the sunshade so that the sunshade is finished such that the width thereof is made wider than the width of the opening portion of the ceiling panel and the length thereof is made longer than the length of the opening portion thereof, the rigid edge member fixed to the front edge is formed with a knob, and slide shoes are provided to the rigid edge members fixed to the both edges of the cut-out panel. The invention realizes reduced weight and manufacturing cost and increased quality of the slide sunshade of automobile sunroofs.

Sliding sunshade of sunroof for automobile

A sunshade of a sunroof for a motor vehicle includes superposing resin impregnated glass fiber mat layers ( ) on both surfaces of a semi-rigid layer ( ) made of an urethane foam and having a uniform thickness, superposing a skin material layer ( ) on a surface of one of the resin impregnated glass fiber mat layers ( ) via an adhesive film layer ( ), superposing a back material layer ( ) on the surface of the other resin impregnated glass fiber mat layer ( ) via an adhesive film layer ( ), and fusion bonding the layers by clamping the layers ( ) by a press mold ( ) and heating and pressurizing the layers ( ) so as to form a predetermined three-dimensional shape.

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Katsugai, Japan

Tatsuro Ito