Patent ID: 8876201

Claim:
A vehicle sun roof apparatus including a movable panel configured to open and close an opening section formed in a roof portion of a vehicle; a supporting bracket configured to support an edge portion of the movable panel in the vehicle width direction; a guide rail provided at an edge portion of the opening section vehicle width direction and extending in the fore-and-aft direction of the vehicle; and a sliding member linked to the supporting bracket, provided so as to be movable along the guide rail, and driven to be moved by an electric drive source, and configured to transfer the movable panel to a tilt-up state by moving a rear portion of the movable panel upward about a supporting point at a front portion thereof when the sliding member moves forward of the vehicle in a fully-closed state of the movable panel, and transfer the movable panel to the fully-closed state by moving the rear portion of the movable panel downward about a supporting point at the front portion thereof when the sliding member moves rearward of the vehicle in the tilt-up state, comprising: a holding portion provided on the supporting bracket so as to project in the vehicle width direction, and a holding groove provided on the rear end portion of the sliding member and configured to allow the holding portion to be locked in so as to introduce the movable panel to the fully-closed state when the movable panel is transferred to the fully-closed state, wherein the holding groove includes a guiding portion provided at a rear end portion of the sliding member and opening rearward of the vehicle, and inclined so that an upper portion of an opening end side thereof extends upward as it goes rearward of the vehicle.