Patent ID: 7293632

Claim:
A brake-equipped retracting mechanism for a retractable member, having: a retractable member that is opened from a retracted position to an open position by a rotational force of a motor; a return spring member that undergoes greater elastic deformation in conjunction with an opening operation of the retractable member and returns the retractable member from the open position to the retracted position by an elastic restoring force created by the elastic deformation; a rotational member for transmitting the rotational force of the motor and the elastic restoring force of the return spring member to a side of the retractable member; and a string member wound around the rotational member for restraining the rotation of the rotational member; wherein a tensile force of the string member increases in conjunction with the opening operation of the retractable member so that rotation-restraining force acting on the rotational member is increased, while it decreases in conjunction with a closing operation of the retractable member so that the rotation-restraining force is decreased.