Patent ID: 8770258

Claim:
A sunshade apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a shading sheet opening and closing a light transmitting portion of a vehicle roof; a pair of holding members retaining the shading sheet; a winding member winding the shading sheet and the holding members; wherein the holding members retain the shading sheet at a pair of edge portions of the shading sheet, the edge portions opposing each other and extending in shading sheet opening-closing directions; the holding members are retained to the winding member in a manner so that for each of the holding members, winding in at one end causes winding out at an other end, and a direction of movement of each of the holding members is reversed at a direction change member positioned at a distance from the winding member in the shading sheet opening-closing directions; the winding member includes a biasing member configured to impart balancing tensional forces acting on the holding members in the shading sheet opening-closing directions at one end and the other end of each of the holding members; each holding member is a wire; and the shading sheet is engaged to each wire by enfolding the wire by the corresponding edge portion of the shading sheet.