ROOF APPARATUS

• Main Author: SAWADA KAZUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.11.2013
• Subjects: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; REMOVABLE EXTERNAL PROTECTIVE COVERINGS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORVEHICLES; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; WINDOWS, WINDSCREENS, NON-FIXED ROOFS, DOORS, OR SIMILARDEVICES FOR VEHICLES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a roof apparatus capable of smoothly and resiliently deforming a weather strip which liquid tightly contacts an edge of a front panel in a width direction, and an edge of a rear panel in a vehicle width direction, in a fully closed state of the front panel.SOLUTION: A roof apparatus includes a side weather strip 21 arranged at a position where a frontward link member 50 and a rearward link member 60 slide thereon at a position outward of an edge of a rear panel in a vehicle width direction in a state where the front panel 12 makes a sliding movement. Each of the frontward link member 50 and the rearward link member 60 includes a frontward guide surface 58, and an upper rearward guide surface 64 and a lower rearward guide surface 65, and an upper frontward guide surface 56, and a lower frontward guide surface 57 and a rearward guide surface 66, which generate a component of force that makes the side weather strip 21 resiliently deform upwardly, the frontward guide surface and the rearward guide surface arranged at end surfaces of the frontward guide surface and the rearward guide surface, the end surfaces that come into contact with the side weather strip 21 first in a state where the frontward link member 50 and the rearward link member 60 move in a frontward-rearward direction together with the front panel 12.