Patent ID: 9550410
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: B60J

Claim:
1. A sunroof apparatus comprising: a movable panel that is configured to open or close an opening formed in a roof of a vehicle; guide rails that have a pair of rail-side holding portions provided side by side in a lateral direction of the vehicle, and are respectively provided in both edge portions of the opening in the lateral direction of the vehicle; support brackets, front end portions of which are supported by the guide rails, each of the support brackets including a vertical wall for supporting a respective edge portion of the movable panel in the lateral direction of the vehicle, and each of the support brackets including a pair of bracket-side held portions provided on both sides of a rear end portion of the vertical wall in the lateral direction of the vehicle; sliding members which are provided so as to be able to move only in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle along the guide rails, and each of which has a connection wall connected to the support bracket; a pair of sliding member-side held portions that is provided on both sides of the connection wall in the lateral direction of the vehicle, and is held by both the rail-side holding portions such that both the sliding member-side held portions cannot move in the lateral direction and a vertical direction of the vehicle; a pair of sliding member-side holding portions that is provided side by side in a rear end portion of the connection wall in the lateral direction of the vehicle, and holds both the bracket-side held portions such that both the bracket-side held portions cannot move in the lateral direction and the vertical direction of the vehicle when the movable panel is in a fully closed state; and an electric driving source that drives the movement of the sliding members, wherein a rib protrudes from at least one of both the rail-side holding portions in such a manner as to extend in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and wherein a restricting piece protrudes from each of the sliding members such that the restricting piece can be engaged with the rib in a twisting direction of the support bracket.