| US 7,575,270 B2 | ||
| Opening/closing apparatus for vehicle | ||
| Kei Nagai, Kiryu (Japan); and Mitsuhiro Okada, Kiryu (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Mitsuba Corporation, Kiryu-shi, Gunma (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 24, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/257,523. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2007-279563 (JP), filed on Oct. 26, 2007; and application No. 2008-173493 (JP), filed on Jul. 02, 2008. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2009/0107048 A1, Apr. 30, 2009 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60J 5/04 (2006.01); E05F 15/10 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 296—155 [296/146.4; 74/89.22; 49/281] | 26 Claims |
| 1. An opening/closing apparatus for vehicle for opening and closing a slide door provided to a vehicle by power of an electric
motor, the opening/closing apparatus comprising:
a guide rail provided to one of a vehicle body and the slide door;
a support arm provided to the other of the vehicle body and the slide door, and movably supported to the guide rail;
the electric motor provided with an output shaft rotatable in both forward and backward directions, and disposed in the other
of the vehicle body and the slide door;
a drive rotating body provided in the other of the vehicle body and the slide door, and rotationally driven by the electric
motor;
an open-side wire member whose one end is wound around the drive rotating body, and whose other end is coupled to an open-side
end of the guide rail via the support arm;
a close-side wire member whose one end is wound around the drive rotating body, and whose other end is coupled to a close-side
end of the guide rail via the support arm;
a speed reducing mechanism having an input gear fixed to the output shaft, an output gear provided to the drive rotating body
and rotating together with the drive rotating body, and a switching gear meshing with the input and output gears and rotatably
supported to a carrier;
a latch provided in the other of the vehicle body and the slide door, and being rotatable between an unlatch position and
a full latch position;
a coupling member for closure coupling the carrier and the latch, and transmitting rotation of the carrier to the latch; and
a switching mechanism for regulating rotation of the latch in a full latch direction due to the rotation of the carrier when
the latch is at an unlatch position, and for releasing the regulation when the latch is rotated to the full latch direction
from the unlatch position,
wherein when the slide door is actuated for closure so that the regulation of the rotation of the latch is released by the
switching mechanism, the latch is rotationally driven in the full latch direction by the carrier so that the slide door is
retracted in a fully-closed position.
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