Patent ID: 7108307

Claim:
A vehicle sun visor apparatus comprising: a light shield body for shielding incident light and capable of moving forward and rearward, the light shield body having a widthwise direction intersecting a movement direction of the light shield body and a thicknesswise direction perpendicular to the movement direction and the widthwise direction; a drive motor, fixed to a vehicle body, for moving the light shield body forward and rearward; at least one pair of slide guides arranged on the light shield body and extending in the movement direction of the light shield body, wherein one of the slide guides includes a meshing surface, a roll surface, and a side surface respectively extending in the movement direction, and the other one of the slide guides includes a side surface extending in the movement direction and one of a meshing surface and a roll surface extending in the movement direction, the side surfaces of the two slide guides being arranged to be separated from each other in the widthwise direction in a state facing each other or facing opposite directions; and a plurality of supports for holding the pair of slide guides in the thicknesswise direction, wherein the plurality of supports include a pair of first supports respectively corresponding to the pair of slide guides and a second support corresponding to at least one of the slide guides, either one of each of the first supports and the second support is a drive gear meshed with the meshing surface of the corresponding slide guide and rotated by the drive motor, the other one of each of the first supports and the second support is a rotation roller that is rollable on the roll surface, and the two first supports each have a contact portion that comes into contact with the corresponding side surface.