Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Patent
1994-09-30
1996-12-03
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
296221, 296224, B60J 7185, B60J 705
Patent
active
055801234
ABSTRACT:
A sun-roof device for opening and closing a roof opening of a vehicle body includes a pair of rails secured to inner peripheries of the opened portion of the vehicle body so as to extend along a lengthwise direction thereof; a pair of driving shoes slidably mounted in the pair of rails; a pair of link mechanisms associated with the pair of driving shoes; a pair of driven shoes slidable mounted in the pair of rails, and associated with the pair of driving shoes; a roof panel supported by the pair of driven shoes and the pair of link mechanisms; a pair of check members associated with the pair of driven shoes and engageable and disengageable with the pair of rails through notches formed in the rails, such that when the pair of check members are in engagement with the pair of rails, the panel is permitted to establish a tilt-movement and when the pair of check members are out of engagement with the pair of rails, the panel is permitted to establish a movement along the pair of rails; and a pair of cam profiles for establishing continual sliding engagements of the pair of the check members with the pair of driving shoes, and causing the check members to move into the notches to engage the rails.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4650243 (1987-03-01), Hanley et al.
patent: 4974902 (1990-12-01), Huiyer
patent: 5326149 (1994-07-01), Schlapp
Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
Pedder Dennis H.
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