Abstract: In a door structure for a vehicle provided with a door main body (4) having an opening (2) provided in an inner panel (3), a module base (7) in which a window regulator (6) for vertically moving a window panel (5) is assembled and a fastening portion (9a) provided near an outer periphery so as to be capable of closing the opening (2) is fixed to the inner panel (3) by a fastening member (10), and a handle (8a) provided in a room inside, the handle (8a) being fixed to the module base (7), reinforcing beads (19, 19a, 19b) are provided in the module base (7) along a line connecting a mounting portion (12) to which the handle (8a) is fixed and the fastening portion (9a) provided in a vertical direction of the mounting portion (12).

Abstract: A control unit is configured to carry out a given controlling of an electric motor when a given operation is carried. The given operation is an operation wherein under operation of a closure mechanism, the door is moved in a close direction passing through an operative position of a half-latch switch and then moved back in an open direction at a position just before the half-latch position. The given controlling is so made that when the moving member takes a position other than a neutral position upon completion of the given operation, the electric motor is rotated in a reversed direction to move the moving member to the neutral position, and when the moving member takes the neutral position upon completion of the given operation, the electric motor is stopped to keep the moving member at the neutral position.

Abstract: A drive device for opening and closing a slide body includes: a drum mating with a secondary cable end portion of a first cable and a secondary cable end portion of a second cable. The drum includes; a main drum mating with the secondary cable end portion of one of the first cable and the second cable, and a sub-drum mating with the secondary cable end portion of the other of the first cable and the second cable. An inner gear is formed on an inner face of one of the main drum and the sub-drum. An outer gear is formed on an outer face of the other of the main drum and the sub-drum. The inner gear meshing with the outer gear defines a position for adjusting a cable length of the first cable and a cable length of the second cable.

Abstract: A rear gate is constructed to be opened and closed by a driving unit installed on a vehicle body side, and the driving unit is constructed to have a motor which can rotate both in normal and reverse directions, a gearbox to which a pinion is pivotally attached for reducing the rotating speed of the motor for output, and a rack adapted to reciprocate in directions normal to an axial direction of a hinge shaft by virtue of the rotation of the pinion and connected to the rear gate at one end thereof. An electromagnetic clutch for connecting and disconnecting a power transmission path between an output shaft of the motor and the pinion is provided in the interior of the gearbox, so that the rack is disposed above or below the gearbox at a position directly above or below the clutch.

Abstract: A so-called super-lock condition of a door lock is achieved with a simple and compact construction. The door lock includes first and second lock/unlock mechanisms which establish the super-lock condition when assuming lock conditions respectively. The first and second lock/unlock mechanisms are actuated by an electric actuator mounted to the door lock. In a housing of the electric actuator, there are installed first and second electric motors and first and second operation levers.

Abstract: In a state where a rotary member has stopped at a position other than a neutral position, an actuating lever can be returned to the neutral position by an urging device, and retained in the neutral position, by shifting a switching member from a connecting state to a disconnecting state. When the rotary member which has been at the position other than the neutral position is returned to the neutral position, the switching member staying in the disconnecting state is shifted to the connecting state to establish a coupling between the rotary member and the actuating lever.

Abstract: For pivotally connecting an upper end of a rack bar and a lower end of a connecting rod, there is employed a joint/slider unit which is slid in and along a guide slot of a rail member. The unit comprises a bolt member passing through the guide slot and including first and second sections which are respectively projected into one and the other sides with respect to the rail member. The first section is held by the upper end of the rack bar and the second section is pivotally held by the lower end of the connecting rod. A first slider is disposed on the first section of the bolt member and slidably contacts one surface of the rail member. A second slider is disposed on the second section of the bolt member and slidably contacts the other surface of the rail member. A universal joint structure is disposed between the second slider and lower end of the connecting rod to permit a pivoting of the connecting rod relative to the bolt member in universal directions.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an operation force transmitting member of a door lock apparatus, which has a guide tube and an inner cable passed through the guide tube and is connected to one of the door lock apparatus and an operating device for operating the door lock apparatus at the upper end portion thereof and to the other of the door lock apparatus and the operating device at the lower end portion thereof. In this operation force transmitting member, a cover member, which is enabled to close the upper face of the guide tube during non-operation of the operating device, is provided on the inner cable projecting from the upper face of the guide tube.

Abstract: An automotive door construction is configured so that a door trim 13 is divided into an upper trim 131 and a lower trim 132; a glass elevating mechanism 5 is installed on the inside surface of the lower trim 132 so that the upper end of a guide rail 7 projects upward from the upper edge of the lower trim 132; and the glass elevating mechanism 5 is inserted from the upper end of the guide rail 7 of the glass elevating mechanism 5 through a mount hole 2a in an inner panel 2, and is housed in a door bag portion 1b, and then the lower trim 132 is lowered along the inner panel 2, by which the glass elevating mechanism 5 and lower trim 132 are installed to the inner panel 2. By forming the relatively small mount hole 2a, which is shorter than the total length of the guide rail 7, in the inner panel 2, the modularized glass elevating mechanism 5 is incorporated in the door bag portion 1b.

Abstract: A base plate has mutually opposed first and second side surfaces. A first group of parts are arranged on the first side surface, which includes an electric motor, a speed reduction unit and an electromagnetic clutch. The speed reduction unit has a gear member which is projected to the second side surface from the first side surface through an opening formed in the base plate and driven by the motor when the electromagnetic clutch assumes ON condition. A second group of parts are arranged on the second side surface, which includes an intermediate gear which is rotatably connected to the base plate and meshed with the gear member, an output gear which is rotatably connected to the base plate through a shaft secured to the output gear and meshed with the intermediate gear and an output arm which is connected to the output gear to rotate therewith. The output arm is connected to the lid through a link.

Abstract: An automatic opening/closing device of a vehicular opening/closing body, which gradually increases a duty until a rotary pulse cycle is definitely decided at a stage before a jamming determining time comes, thus making it possible to move a backdoor even if a resistance due to self-weight of the backdoor is generated and to prevent a malfunction in which the backdoor is halted or an operation thereof is inverted even under a state where the backdoor does not jam any foreign object.

Abstract: A controller of a sunroof for a vehicle structured such as to adjust a predetermined over flap amount S to be fixed in correspondence to a power supply voltage of a drive unit or an operating speed of a lid 3 in the case of temporarily descending at the over flap amount S from a fully-closed position, thereafter ascending and stopping at the fully-closed position.

Abstract: In closure apparatus and method for an elongated lid of a compartment, the lid being pivotally supported on a wall defining the compartment via a pair of mutually spaced apart hinge arms, a control device controls each of a first driving device and an electromagnetic clutch to make a deformation of the lid to the compartment return to its original form in response to an output of the locked state detection signal from the detecting section. In the first embodiment, a rotation direction of a reversible motor is changed to a reverse direction which corresponds to an open direction of the lid to drive the lid toward the open direction in response to the output of the locked state detection signal.

Abstract: A door lock apparatus has a handle switch (31), which is placed in the on condition when an actuator member for opening and closing a back door is operated, an open switch (16), which is placed in the on condition when the door is closed to within a prescribed closure range, a drive circuit, which is formed so as to drive a door lock disengaging motor (25) when both the handle switch (31) and the open switch (16) are in the on condition, and a self-holding circuit holding a condition in which the drive circuit is formed and, in response to the open switch going into to off condition, releasing the condition in which the drive circuit is formed.

Abstract: A cable guide structure for a window regulator is provided with rails aligned so as to be parallel with each other, moving elements for supporting a window panel, a cable connected to said moving elements. A diagonally cabling portion of the cable is linearly arranged. The directions of tangent lines of the pulleys at contact points of rail cabling portions with cable guide grooves coincide with axial directions of a cable in the rail cabling portions respectively. Further the directions of tangent lines of pulleys at contact points of the diagonally cabling portion with the cable guide grooves coincide with an axial direction of the cable in the diagonally cabling portion.

Abstract: A control unit is configured to carry out a given controlling of an electric motor when a given operation is carried. The given operation is an operation wherein under operation of a closure mechanism, the door is moved in a close direction passing through an operative position of a half-latch switch and then moved back in an open direction at a position just before the half-latch position. The given controlling is so made that when the moving member takes a position other than a neutral position upon completion of the given operation, the electric motor is rotated in a reversed direction to move the moving member to the neutral position, and when the moving member takes the neutral position upon completion of the given operation, the electric motor is stopped to keep the moving member at the neutral position.

Abstract: The invention provides a window panel supporting structure of a window regulator having a positioning element along a window panel surface in which a positioning projection (31c) protruded in any one of a panel holder (31) and a fastening and supporting portion (17) and a positioning groove (17b) formed in another thereof are engaged with each other.

Abstract: The pinion pivotally mounted on a vehicle body by the axis parallel to a hinge axis is linked by the motor provided on the vehicle body so as to be rotated in forward and reverse directions, the rack engaging the pinion is provided on the edge of the rack rod having one end portion pivotally secured by a transversely directed axis on the portion spaced from the hinge axis of the opening and closing member, and the guide member which slidably engages the longitudinal guide groove provided on the rack rod and rotatably supports the rack rod around the axis parallel to the axis of the pinion is provided on the partial portion of the vehicle body slightly spaced from the pinion.

Abstract: An output mechanism includes a closing lever adapted to rotate from a neutral position in two opening and closing directions when a motor is allowed to rotate clockwise and counterclockwise and to rotate a latch from a half-latched position to a full-latched position when rotating in the closing direction and having an engagement portion at a free end portion thereof, and an opening lever having an engagement arm adapted to rotate from a waiting position to an open position by the engagement portion when the closing lever rotates from the neutral position thereof in the opening direction and to allow the engagement portion to move idly after having reached the open position and an opening portion adapted to release the engagement of a locking plate with the latch by virtue of the rotation of the engagement arm. The motor, the opening lever and the closing lever are fixed to and secured pivotally to a base plate secured to a lock main body, respectively.

Abstract: An automotive door lock assembly comprises a lock/unlock mechanism and an electric actuator which actuates the lock/unlock mechanism. At an initial stage of a door unlocking operation of the electric actuator, a passive lever is shifted from an engaged position where a lock/unlock lever and a sub-lever are engaged to move together to a disengaged position where the engagement between the lock/unlock lever and the sub-lever is canceled. When the passive lever is shifted to the disengaged position, the sub-lever can be quickly shifted to the unlock position by the force of a spring prior to shifting of the lock/unlock lever to the unlock position from the lock position by the electric actuator. With this arrangement, the electric actuator can be made of a relatively low power electric motor, and the lock/unlock mechanism can be quickly shifted to a door unlocking condition upon manipulation of a door handle.