Patent ID: 7585014

Claim:
A slide door opening and closing apparatus for a vehicle comprising: a drive pulley; a driven pulley; a pulling member extending between the drive pulley and the driven pulley and connected to a slide door, which performs an opening or closing operation of an opening of a vehicle by the drive pulley; a drive side idle pulley provided in the vicinity of the drive pulley for guiding the pulling member extending at an inner side of the vehicle toward an outer side of the vehicle via the driven pulley; a housing for housing the drive pulley and the drive side idle pulley, the housing including an opening portion through which the pulling member guided by the drive side idle pulley is inserted; a partition provided at the opening portion of the housing, the partition interposed between the pulling member at the inner side of the vehicle and the pulling member guided toward the outer side of the vehicle via the driven pulley; an intermediate idle pulley provided between the drive side idle pulley and the driven pulley for guiding the pulling member at the inner side of the vehicle toward the outer side of the vehicle; and a support member provided between the pulling member at the inner side of the vehicle and the pulling member guided toward the outer side via the driven pulley, the support member fixing a panel, to which the drive pulley and the driven pulley are fixed, to a vehicle body, wherein the intermediate idle pulley and the support member are arranged close to each other.