Patent ID: 7416245

Claim:
A sunshade device for a vehicle comprising: a plurality of sunshade panels mounted in an inner opening of a vehicular roof along a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, the sunshade panels being arranged in line along the longitudinal direction of the vehicle in a closed state of the sunshade panels; a pair of front and rear sliders each provided at both side portions of each sunshade panel; a pair of guide rails for guiding a linear sliding movement of the front and rear sliders; a drive source connected to a forefront sunshade panel; and a connecting mechanism for detachably connecting adjacent sunshade panels such that each of the sunshade panels is cooperatively opened and closed; wherein a sunshade panel positioned at a rear portion of the guide rails is lifted up so that a front-side sunshade panel positioned in front of this rear-side sunshade panel moves under and is superposed below the rear-side sunshade panel, wherein the adjacent sunshade panels have a cam mechanism including at least one cam pin formed on one sunshade panel, and at least one cam groove formed on the other sunshade panel corresponding to the cam pin and having one end thereof opened to guide the cam pin, wherein the sunshade device further includes a pair of slanted rails provided at rear ends of the guide rails and extending in a diagonally upward and rearward direction, and a pair of front slider releasing parts positioned above the front sliders at a time when the rear sliders slide up along the slanted rails to a predetermined position, wherein when the sunshade panels are opened, the rear sliders of the rear-side sunshade panel are elevated to the predetermined position along the pair of slanted rails, and thereafter by a movement of the cam pin within the corresponding cam groove, the front sliders are elevated through the front slider releasing parts with the rear sliders as a center of rotation, and wherein the cam pin comes off from the end of the corresponding cam groove, and the front-side sunshade panel moves rearward and is positioned below the rear-side sunshade panel.