Patent ID: 8096606

Claim:
A door-opening device for opening and closing a sliding door in a vehicle, comprising: a motor unit fixed in the sliding door; a guide positioned rail along and in the sliding door; a slider that slides along the guide rail; an opening cable coupled to the motor unit and driven by the motor unit; a hinge unit in which an inner thereof end is pivotally mounted to a body of the vehicle and an outer thereof end is pivotally mounted to the slider; and a control lever comprising a circular base and an arm, the base being pivotally mounted to the slider, a circumferential groove being formed on an outer circumference of the base, the opening cable being wound in the circumferential groove of the base, the opening cable being pulled in by the motor unit to turn the control lever which turns the hinge unit and moves the sliding door from a closed position to a projecting position in which the sliding door projects from the vehicle via the hinge unit.