Patent ID: 6709049
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: B60J,E05F,E05Y

Abstract:
A pull-cable type opening and closing device for sunroofs and the like, the device comprising:a pair of rails disposed in parallel with each other; a lid reciprocating along said rails in order to open an close an opening; right and left pull-cables which are engaged with said lid and are arranged along said rails; and a drive mechanism for driving said pull cables in a reciprocating manner, wherein the pull-cables are in a closed loop arrangement in which one of the pull cables coming out of said drive mechanism is arranged along the rails from a base end side of a first rail to a tip side thereof and, somewhere along the rails, engaged to the lid and then arranged from the tip side of the first rail to a base end side of a second rail along a route bypassing the opening and then from the base end side of the second rail to a tip side thereof along the rails and, somewhere along the rails, engaged to the lid and then from the tip side of the second rail along a route bypassing the opening back to the drive mechanism, and wherein said pull-cable is arranged from the tip side of the first rail to the tip side of the second rail and then along the second rail from the base end side thereof and, at the base end, reversed in direction to be arranged to the tip side and returned from the tip side of the second rail back to the tip side of said first rail and then, along the first rail, back to the base end side thereof.