Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.

Tsutomu Iwaya

Teruyuki Nakamura

Tatsuaki Uehara

Shigehito Horiuchi

Toshiyuki Kanai

Hisanori Fukuda

Junya Yoshioka

Yoshikazu Ikeda

Sou Takakura

So Takakura

A lifting guide mechanism for a sunroof device that can be reduced in weight, thickness, and cost is provided. A second rear guide pin () is provided behind and above a first rear guide pin () which can be received in a guide groove (). A first upper wall () is formed with a rear opening part () to allow the first rear guide pin () to get in and out of the guide groove (). A first rear lifting guide member () is provided on the first upper wall () so as to project upward at rear of the rear opening part () to guide the second rear guide pin () when a movement of a movable panel () is switched between sliding and tilting. This eliminates the need for a member for guiding the first rear guide pin () in the guide groove (), and thus, the panel guide rail () may have a single-level structure.

Lifting guide mechanism for sunroof device

A window regulator including a drive gear connected to a drive motor, an elongate push-pull member which is open ended and flexible, meshes with the drive gear, and can be pushed and pulled by bidirectional rotations of the drive gear, a carrier which is connected with one end of the elongate push-pull member and is also connected with window glass, and a guide rail which guides the elongate push-pull member and the carrier in a drive path. The window regulator further includes a frame in which a means for fixing and supporting the drive motor, a means for fixing and supporting the guide rail, a means for holding an orbit of the elongate push-pull member in an idle path, and a means for mounting on an object are integrally formed.

Window regulator in which a means for fixing and supporting a drive motor, a means for fixing and supporting a guide rail, a means for holding an orbit of an elongate push-pull member in an idle path, and a means for mounting on an object are integrally formed

Provided is a mounting structure for mounting a film-shaped electric device to a glass panel, comprising: a resin panel attached to a surface of the film-shaped electric device to form a panel-shaped electric device having first and second edges; and first and second retaining members attached to one surface of the glass panel in correspondence with the first and second edges of the panel-shaped electric device, respectively, each first and second retaining member defining a groove such that the groove opens toward a region of the glass panel to be covered by the panel-shaped electric device, wherein the panel-shaped electric device is retained by the first and second retaining members with the first and second edges of the panel-shaped electric device being received in the corresponding grooves such that the surface of the film-shaped electric device having the resin panel attached thereto faces away from the glass panel.

Mounting structure for film-shaped electric device

A sunshade device includes a pair of shade guide rails across an indoor opening; a shade of which opposite side edges are guided by the shade guide rails; and a winding shaft rolling up the shade, wherein the opposite side edges of the shade are guided by the shade guide rails with the side edges being folded after a folding stroke whose folded width is gradually increased toward a front end of the shade when the shade is drawn out from the winding shaft, each of the opposite side edges of the shade is provided with a folded introduction part formed by folding a side edge portion of the shade and connecting the folded side edge portion to a main body portion of the shade, and the folded introduction part is formed in a predetermined length from the front end of the shade in an open/close direction of the shade.

Sunshade device

There is provided a roll-up shade apparatus which can ensure a larger open dimension of a shade. The roll-up shade apparatus comprises a pair of first wire drums which travel and rotate in a wire wind-up direction or a wire feed direction when the shade is moved in the open direction or the closing direction, a pair of second wire drums which are coupled to a retractor so as to be rotatable together with the retractor, and which are rotatably provided at both sides of the retractor coaxially therewith so that a wire wind-up direction becomes opposite to a shade wind-up direction of the retractor, and a pair of wires suspended between the respective first and second wire drums so that the second wire drums rotate in a wire feed direction or in a wire wind-up direction when the first wire drums rotate in the wire wind-up direction or in the wire feed direction, respectively.

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Sakura, Japan

Tsutomu Iwaya