Patent ID: 8292358
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: B60J

Abstract:
1. A vehicle sunshade device comprising: guide rails adapted to be arranged on both sides of an opening section provided on a vehicle roof and having guide grooves extending in a front-rear direction; a plurality of sunshade panels having sliders being slidable along the guide grooves and arranged to be flat in a spread-out state but arranged to mutually overlap in parallel in a stored state; guide mechanisms for guiding the sliders of at least a rearmost sunshade panel of the sunshade panels upward or downward from the guide grooves in a transition from the spread-out state to the stored state; and an elastic member adapted to be provided on the vehicle roof for urging the rearmost sunshade panel to be pressed on a front side sunshade panel which is ahead of the rearmost sunshade panel when the sliders of the rearmost sunshade panel enter the guide mechanisms; wherein: a rib is provided at a front end portion of the rearmost sunshade panel; an upper surface of the rib has a rear upper surface located at a rear part thereof and a front upper surface located at a front part thereof; and the rear upper surface and the front upper surface differ in height for adjusting a load exerted from the elastic member.