Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabuhsiki Kaisha

Tsutomu Tanoi

Tomonori Suzuki

Seika Matsui

Hideharu Kato

Satoru Onozawa

Youji Nagashima

Takashi Kikuta

Takashi Kitani

Yusuke Kokubo

Mizuho Morimitsu

A roof operating device includes a roof member operated so as to be extended from and stored in vehicle body, a lid operated to be opened and closed when the roof member is operated, an operation switch, actuators driving the roof member and the lid, a first and second closer mechanisms provided at first and second portions and operated for moving the lid so as to be in a fully closed state, and each of the first and second closer mechanisms including a striker, a latch and a half latched state detection portion for detecting a half latched state between the latch and the striker, wherein after the half latched state detection portions detect the half latched state, and the operation switch is continuously operated, the first and second closer mechanisms are synchronously operated in order to move the lid so as to be in a fully closed state.

Roof operating device

An electrical contact mechanism adapted to be mounted to a retractable mechanism including a supporting mechanism for extending a roof and a rear window and stowing the roof and the rear window in a stowage space, includes a first member rotating in conjunction with the supporting mechanism, a first contact mounted to the first member, a second member connected to the first member and rotating relative to the first member in conjunction with the supporting mechanism, and a second contact mounted to the second member, wherein electric power is supplied to an apparatus mounted to at least one of the roof and the rear window by connecting the first contact with the second contact.

Electrical contact mechanism

An operating mechanism for an open/close object comprising a driving device for driving and opening the open/close object, a position detecting device for detecting an open position of the open/close object (), and a fully open position storage device for storing a fully open position of the open/close object, wherein, when the driving device drives and opens the open/close object, the driving device is stopped in a fully open recognition position stored in the fully open position storage device or a position a fixed amount short of the fully open recognition position. When a current position of the open/close object after completion of the opening drive by the driving device is different from the fully open recognition position (#), the fully open position storage device sets a new fully open recognition position (#).

Operating mechanism for an open/close object

A trapping detection device of an opening/closing member includes a motor, a motor speed detection device, a control device, a voltage detection device for detecting a drive voltage applied to the motor, an actual speed decision device for deciding the actual speed of a rotation of the motor, an estimated speed calculation device for calculating the estimated speed of the rotation of the motor based on the drive voltage, an estimated speed storage device for storing the estimated speed for a predetermined time, an estimated speed correction device for correcting the estimated speed based on a difference between the actual speed and the estimated speed obtained before the predetermined time, a trapping determination device for determining the trapping based on a change state of a difference between the estimated speed being corrected and the actual speed.

Trapping detection device of opening/closing member

An electrically moving apparatus for moving a movable body includes a security mechanism for detecting an abnormal increase of a load applied to the movable body during the movable body being moved by an operation of an electric motor. The electrically moving apparatus does not require an increase of a threshold value for judging the increase of the load applied to the movable body. The security mechanism is not operated when an increase of a load for lifting down an operative member being movable in response to the movement of the movable body.

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Toyoake, Japan

Tsutomu Tanoi