JPS604418A - Sliding-type roof construction for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent a lower surface of a side trim from being damaged, by a method wherein downwardly projected parts are provided on the lower surfaces of side trims provided at both side parts of a lower surface of a movable lid, and the projected parts are brought into contact with a sunshade when sliding the lid. CONSTITUTION:A retainer 12 is fixed by adhering to the back-side peripheral edge of the movable lid 3 for opening and closing a roof opening, and a supporting mechanism 7 consisting of a fitting bracket 14, front and rear shoes 15a, 15b slidden along a guide rail 6 and a link mechanism 16 is provided between a side part of the retainer 12 and the guide rail 6. In addition, the side trims 29 are provided at a lower part of the bracket 14 as a blind. In this roof construction, the projected parts 36 are provided at side edge parts of the lower surfaces 35 of the side trims 29, and are extended in the longitudinal direction of the side trims 29. The height of the projected parts 36 is so set that when the movable lid 3 is in a sunken state, the tips of the projected parts 36 make contact with the upper surface of a slider 17 for supporting the sunshade 9.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a sliding roof structure for a vehicle, and more particularly to an improvement in a sliding roof structure for a vehicle that includes a movable lid made of glass or synthetic resin.

Conventionally, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, this type of sliding roof structure for a vehicle has a movable lid made of glass or synthetic resin in a roof opening 2 provided at the front of a roof panel 1. 3 is fitted and inserted to form a lid storage part 5 between the roof panel 1 and a frame 4 disposed at the bottom of the roof panel 1, while guides extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body are provided on both left and right sides of the frame 4. A rail 6 is laid, and the movable lid 3 is slidably supported on the guide rail 8 via a support mechanism 7, and at the bottom of the movable lid 3 there is an indoor side provided at the front of the frame 4. Listener 8
A sunshade 9 is provided to block the movable lid 3.
There is also one in which the sunshade 9 is separately slid rearward and stored in the lid storage section. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 10 indicates a drive wire for driving the movable lid 3.

In this type, a retainer 12 is adhesively fixed to the periphery of the back surface of the movable lid 3, as shown in FIG. A support mechanism 7 is provided between the side of the retainer 12 and the guide rail 6, and this support mechanism 7 is connected to a pair of mounting brackets 14 (in the drawings The rear mounting bracket is shown above), the front and rear shoes 15 that slide along the guide rail 6 (the rear shoe is shown in the drawing), and the mounting bracket 14 and shoe 15 are connected. A drive wire 10 is connected and fixed to the front shoe, and the operation of the drive wire 10 moves the front shoe. When the movable lid 3 moves rearward, the rear part of the movable lid 3 sinks due to the action of the link mechanism 16, so that the movable lid 3 is housed in the lid storage section 5.

Further, the sunshade 9 has a slider 17 (the rear slider is shown in the drawing) at the front and rear sides of the sunshade 9, and by fitting the slider 17 into the channel portion 6a of the guide rail 6, the sunshade 9 can be guided. It is supported slidably along a rail 6, and even when the movable lid 3 is closed, it can be manually stored in the lid storage part 5 to open the indoor opening 8. There is. Furthermore, the mounting bracket 14 of the support mechanism 7 is provided with a side trim that hides the support mechanism 7 from the indoor opening 8 when only the sunshade 9 is stored in the lid storage part 5 with the movable lid 3 closed. 18 is attached along the front-rear direction of the indoor opening 8.

Conventionally, this side trim 18 has been formed in a cross-sectional shape to prevent its planar lower surface 19 from coming into contact with the negative surface 20 of the slider 17 that supports the sunshade 8 and/or the sunshade 9 when the movable lid 3 slides. In addition, a certain amount of clearance is formed between the lower surface 19 of the side trim 18 and the upper surface 20 of the slider 17. In terms of design, this gap 21 is created to meet the requirements of making the entire sliding roof as thin as possible and raising the frame 4 accordingly to ensure sufficient head clearance, and to ensure that the support mechanism 7 is as visible as possible from the inside of the vehicle when the sunshade 8 is retracted. In order to meet the request to make the space formed between the lower surface 19 of the side trim 18 and the garnish 22 attached to the edge of the indoor side opening 8 as narrow as possible, the space shown by the imaginary line in FIG. Side 1 Trim 1 when movable lid 3 is sliding
At the 8th position, the space between the lower surface 18 of the side trim 18 and the upper surface 20 of the slider 17 is designed to be as narrow as possible without contact between the two. In FIG. 3, reference numeral 11 indicates a head lining, 23 indicates a weather strip attached to the periphery of the movable lid 3, and 24 indicates a retainer 12.
25 is a dam rubber for preventing the adhesive 24 from extruding, 26 and 27 are seal rubbers, and 28 is a shim for adjusting the height position of the movable lid 3.

However, as mentioned above, the lower surface 1 of the side trim I8
9 and the sunshade 9 is made as narrow as possible, for example, as shown in FIG. When attempting to ventilate by opening the roof opening 2 from a state where the roof is closed, first store the sunshade 9 in the lid storage part 5 as shown in FIG.
The operation procedure is to store the movable lid 3 in the lid storage section 5 as shown in c), but when storing the movable lid 3 in the lid storage section 5, the operation procedure shown in FIG. 4(b) is performed.
Generally, the movable lid 3 is sunk into the state shown by the imaginary line in , and then slid rearward. Therefore, when the movable lid 3 is in the sunken state, the gap 21 between the side trim 18 and the sunshade 9 becomes very narrow, and due to installation errors of the side trim 18, sunshade 9, etc., when the movable lid 3 slides, The entire lower surface of the side trim 18 and 19 will rub against the sunshade 8 and/or the lower surface 20 of the slider 17, damaging the lower surface 19 of the side trim 18 and making it look bad, as well as impairing the operability when the movable lid 3 is sliding. There was a problem that the performance decreased. Incidentally, the same problem as described above also occurs when the movable lid 3 in the lid storage section 5 is slid forward when the roof opening 2 is closed.

In addition, even when only the sunshade 9 is slid rearward in order to view the outside of the vehicle through the movable lid 3 portion from inside the vehicle interior with the movable lid 3 closed, the sunshade 9 is lifted upward by the operating force when manually operating the sunshade 9. The upper surface 20 of the sunshade 8 and/or slider 17 is pushed up slightly to the lower surface 1 of the site 9 trim 18 as described above.
There was a problem that it came into contact with 9.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and its purpose is to avoid widening the gap formed between the lower surface of the side trim and the sunshade when the movable lid, etc. slides. To provide a sliding roof structure for a vehicle, which prevents the entire lower surface of a side trim from shifting, improves the appearance of the lower surface of the side trim, and improves the operability of a movable lid and a sunshade.

The gist of the present invention is to provide a downward protrusion on the lower surface of the side trim, and when the movable lid slides, the protrusion is brought into positive contact with the sunshade so that the general lower surface of the side trim comes into contact with the sunshade. The purpose is to prevent this.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings.

In the first embodiment shown in FIGS. 5 and 8, the movable lid 3 is made of glass or synthetic resin, and a retainer 12 is adhesively fixed to the periphery of the back surface thereof, as in the conventional case. A support mechanism 7 is provided between the side of the retainer 12 and the guide rail 6, and the support mechanism 7 includes a receiving bracket 14 fixed with a screw 13 at the front and back of the side of the retainer 12, and a guide rail. 6 and the mounting bracket 14.
A link mechanism 1 that connects the front and rear shoes 15a and 15b.
It consists of 6. In this embodiment, the mounting bracket 14 is attached to the front fixing portion 14a of the retainer 12.
and the rear fixing part 14b are integrally formed,
The mounting rigidity of the movable lid 3 is increased.

Further, the sunshade 9 has a pair of sliders 17 at the front and rear sides thereof, and is supported slidably along the guide rail 6 by fitting the slider 17 into the channel portion 6a of the guide rail 6. has been done.

Further, a blinding side trim 28 having a substantially boat shape and extending along the front and back direction of the indoor opening 8 is disposed at the lower part of the mounting bracket 14 of the support mechanism 7, and this side trim 29 is attached to the mounting bracket 14. The locking pawl 31 that engages with the locking groove 30 provided on the front side fixing part 14a of the mounting bracket 14 is placed on the front side, and the embossed screw 33 is fixed in the screw hole 32 provided on the rear side fixing part 14b of the mounting bracket 14. Shape-shaped screw insertion holes 34 are respectively provided on the rear side.

In this embodiment, the side trim 29 is different from the conventional one.
A protrusion 36, which is a protrusion that extends along the longitudinal direction of the side trim 29 and projects downward from the general plane of the lower surface 35, is integrally provided on one side edge of the lower surface 35. As shown by the imaginary line in FIG.
The top surface 20 of the slider 17 supports the sunshade 9 at the tip of the protrusion 38 when the movable lid 3 is in a sunken state.
When the movable lid 3 slides, the tip of the protrusion 36 contacts the sunshade 9.
and/or forward while rubbing the top surface 20 of the slider 17,
Or move backwards.

Therefore, according to the sliding roof structure for a vehicle according to this embodiment, the movable lid 3 and the sunshade 9 close the roof opening 2 and the indoor opening 8, as shown in FIG. 4(a), for example. When attempting to ventilate by opening the roof opening 2 from a closed position, as described above, first store the sunshade 9 in the lid storage part 5 and then slide the movable lid 3 backwards to sleep. Due to the sinking movement of the movable lid 3 shown by the imaginary line in FIG. 4(b), the gap 21 between the side trim 29 and the sunshade 9 becomes narrower. When the movable lid 3 is slid backward in this state, the protrusion 3C of the side trim 29 moves backward while rubbing against the upper surface 20 of the sill 8 and/or the slider 17, and is stored in the lid storage section 5. be done.

In this way, when the movable lid 3 slides, the protrusion 36 is actively brought into contact with the sunshade 9, etc., so the entire lower surface of the side trim does not come into contact with the sunshade 9, unlike in the past. Since the contact area is smaller in comparison, the entire lower surface 35 of the side trim 28 is not damaged and the appearance can be improved, and sliding resistance is reduced, making it possible to improve operability. Further, in this embodiment, since the protruding portion 36 serves as an accent line on the lower surface 35 of the side trim 29, the quality of the vehicle interior can be improved. Furthermore, in this embodiment, when the movable lid 3 is fully closed and only the sunshade 8 is housed in the lid storage section 5, there is a distance between the movable lid 3 and the garnish 22 by the amount of protrusion of the protrusion 38 provided on the side trim 29. Since it can be made narrower, the support mechanism 7 can be hidden from the inside of the vehicle.

FIG. 7 shows a second embodiment of the present invention, which has the same structure as the previous embodiment except that the lower surface shape of the side trim 37 is different. Side trim 3 according to this embodiment
In 7, the lower surface 38 itself is bent, and the tip protruding portion 38 is formed into a thin shape by protruding downward from the base side forming the general plane of the lower surface 38 of the side trim 37. It is brought into elastic contact with the upper surface 20 of the slider 17 of No. 8.

Therefore, when the movable lid 3 slides, the side trim 37 lowers somewhat as the movable lid 3 sinks, as shown by the imaginary line in FIG. As the portion 39 is bent, it comes into elastic contact with the upper surface 20 of the sunshade 9 and/or the slider 17, so that the tip protrusion 39 moves while rubbing the upper surface of the sunshade 9 and the like. Therefore, as in the previous embodiment, it is possible to prevent the entire lower surface 38 of the side trim 37 from being damaged, and it is also possible to improve the operability when the movable lid 3 is sliding. Furthermore, in this embodiment, when only the sunshade 8 is stored in the lid storage part 5, the tip protrusion 39 of the side trim 37 is lowered as shown by the dashed line in FIG.
The gap between the garnish 22 and the garnish 22 can be further narrowed, and the blindfold function can be further improved accordingly.

As explained above, according to the sliding roof structure for a vehicle according to the present invention, the entire lower surface of the side trim provided on both sides of the lower surface of the movable lid is not damaged, and the support mechanism is Since it is difficult to see from the inside, the appearance of the side trim periphery can be improved accordingly.

Furthermore, since the sliding resistance of the movable lid or the sunshade can be reduced when the movable lid or sunshade is slid, it is possible to improve the operability and prevent the occurrence of rubbing noise during sliding.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a conventional vehicle equipped with a sliding roof, Fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of its main parts, and Fig. 3 is a
4(a) to (c) are schematic sectional views showing the operating state of the sliding roof; FIG. 5 is a perspective view of essential parts showing the first embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken along line VI-Vl in FIG. 5, and FIG. 7 is a sectional view similar to FIG. 6 showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A movable lid made of glass or synthetic resin is inserted into the roof opening opened in the front part of the roof panel, and side trims are arranged on both sides of the lower surface of the movable lid, and the lower part of the roof panel and this roof panel are connected to each other. A lid storage part is formed between the movable lid and the frame disposed in the movable lid, and a sunshade is disposed at the lower part of the movable lid to close an indoor opening opened in the front part of the frame. A sliding roof structure for a vehicle in which each sunshade is slid rearward separately and stored in a lid storage portion, and the vehicle is characterized in that a downward protrusion is provided on the lower surface of the side trim. For sliding roof structure.