VEHICLE ROOF STRUCTURE

• US 20110204682A1
• Filed: 06/23/2009
• Published: 08/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Kamei, Masayuki, Terai, Hideaki, Matsuda, Yukio, Yoshita, Yusuke, Inaba, Hirotaka
• Application Number:
  US13/061,060
• Publication Number:
  US 20110204682A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/216.04
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 7/0015 roller blind
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 7/022 Sliding roof trays or assemblies
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/06 Fixed roofs non-fixed roofs or like shelters B60J7/00; roof liners B60R13/02; insulating elements B60R13/08
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49622 Vehicular structural member making

Abstract

A sun shade device is positioned on an inner surface of a panorama roof panel. The sun shade device includes a sheet-shaped shade member that can be pulled out and retracted in back and forth directions of a vehicle, and a shade cover member that can cover the wound shade member. The shade cover member is made of an elongated rigid body and is laterally bridged in right and left directions of the vehicle along a winding axis of the shade member. The shade cover member is secured to a vehicle main body at both ends thereof.

Claims

1. A daylighting vehicle roof structure in which a roof opening is covered by a panorama roof panel that is made of an unframed transparent plate, comprising:

a sun shade device that is positioned on an inner surface of the panorama roof panel,

wherein the sun shade device includes a sheet-shaped shade member that can be pulled out and retracted in back and forth directions of a vehicle, and a shade cover member that can cover the wound shade member, wherein the shade cover member is made of an elongated rigid body and is laterally bridged in right and left directions of the vehicle along a winding axis of the shade member while suspended from the inner surface of the panorama roof surface via a folder, and wherein the shade cover member is secured to a vehicle main body at both ends thereof.

2. The vehicle roof structure as defined in claim 1, wherein the shade cover member is positioned in a portion that is overlapped with a center pillar in the back and forth directions of the vehicle.

4. The vehicle roof structure as defined in claim 1, wherein the shade cover member is secured to the vehicle main body at both ends via an attachment bracket.

5. A manufacturing method of the vehicle roof structure defined in claim 4, comprising:

suspending the shade cover member from the inner surface of the panorama roof surface, so as to attach the shade member and the shade cover member to the panorama roof panel,

adhesively securing the panorama roof panel to the vehicle main body thereafter, and

connecting the attachment brackets to the both ends of the shade cover member from below, so as to connect the shade cover member to the vehicle main body.

3. (canceled)