Patent ID: 9302571
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: B60J

Claim Text:
1. A vehicle sunroof apparatus comprising: a movable panel that is adapted to open and close an opening formed on a roof of a vehicle; a guide rail that is disposed in each edge portion of the opening in a width direction of the vehicle and that extends in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle; a slide member that is linked to each edge portion of the movable panel in the width direction of the vehicle, that is disposed to be movable along the guide rail, and that is driven to move by an electrical driving source; a check mechanism that regulates a movement of the movable panel in the longitudinal direction when the slide member moves to a front part of the vehicle in a fully closed state of the movable panel, that shifts the fully closed state to a tilting-up state by causing a rear side section to ascend about a fulcrum of a front side section of the movable panel, and that releases the movement regulation of the movable panel by maintaining the tilting-up state when the slide member moves to a rear part of the vehicle after moving further to the front part of the vehicle in the tilting-up state; a first member that is supported by the slide member; and a second member that is supported by a support shaft so as to be pivotally movable around an axis extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, wherein the first member includes wherein the second member includes second cam teeth which pass through the opening portion and are pressed by the first cam teeth when the slide member moves further to the front part of the vehicle in the tilting-up state, which are pressed by the locking portion when the slide member moves to the rear part of the vehicle thereafter, and in this manner, the second cam teeth are pivotally moved by the predetermined angle, and engage with the locking portion, and wherein a guide surface which can come into contact with the second cam teeth so as to guide the slide member in order to cause both rotation positions of the second cam teeth and the opening portion to coincide with each other when the slide member moves further to the front part of the vehicle in the tilting-up state is formed in the slide member which supports the first member.