Patent ID: 7370900

Claim:
A method of moving a slide-out room comprising: providing a slide-out room on a vehicle; providing a drive mechanism connected to said vehicle and said slide-out room; providing a synchronizing mechanism disposed in said vehicle independent of said drive mechanism; said synchronizing mechanism engaged with a top region of said slide-out room and a bottom region of said slide-out room; directly driving said slide-out room into and out of a wall of said vehicle with said drive mechanism; passively synchronizing movement of said top region of said slide-out room with movement of said bottom region of said slide-out room with said synchronizing mechanism during said driving of said slide-out room into and out of said wall of said vehicle; wherein the passively synchronizing movement is movement resulting solely from movement of said slide-out room as said slide-out room is directly driven by said drive mechanism and not from any direct motive force of said drive mechanism on said synchronizing mechanism.