A sliding roof system for a motor vehicle comprises a front lifting mechanism and a rear lifting mechanism which are assigned to a front and a rear edge respectively of a cover of the sliding roof system, as well as a connecting element which is arranged between the front and the rear lifting mechanisms. The rear lifting mechanism includes a lifting carriage with at least one lifting slotted guide, a lifting lever which is pivotably attached with one end to a fixed bearing and the other end of which has a guide element for the cover, and a translating lever which is pivotably connected to the lifting lever between its ends, wherein the translating lever is coupled to the lifting carriage by means of two sliders.

A roller unit to which a cable end of a cable pulled by a door actuator is attached moves with a slide door along a guide rail on a vehicle body, and includes: a coupling part coupled to the slide door; a guide roller supported by the coupling part and moving along the guide rail; a guide pin fixed to the coupling part and inserted into the cable end; and a fastener fastening the cable end to the guide pin. A recess is formed toward an end of the guide pin. An external diameter of the end of the guide pin is smaller than an internal diameter of the shaft hole of the cable end. The fastener includes a supporting part supporting the cable end and a protrusion part engaged with the recess.

A sliding door driving device is fixed to a body panel of a vehicle and operates a sliding door of the vehicle in an opening direction and a closing direction. The sliding door driving device includes an elongated guide frame, a first driven pulley and a second driven pulley that are rotatably supported at both ends in a longitudinal direction of the guide frame, a belt that is wound around the first driven pulley and the second driven pulley, and a cover that covers the belt. The cover has an upper wall that covers the belt from above, an outer wall that extends downward from an outer end of the upper wall in a width direction of the vehicle, and an inner wall that extends downward from an inner end of the upper wall in the width direction.

A vehicle door opening and closing apparatus includes a rail mounted on a vehicle body, a roller unit mounted on a vehicle door, the vehicle door having a main latch releasably engaged with a main striker mounted on the vehicle body, the roller unit configured to allow the vehicle door to open and close in a sliding mode and a swing mode, and an outside handle operatively connected to the main latch, and including a handle base mounted on the vehicle door and a handle grip movably mounted on the handle base, wherein the handle grip is slidable in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, and pivotal in a transverse direction of the vehicle body, and wherein as the handle grip slides, the sliding mode is selected, and as the handle grip pivots, the swing mode is selected.

The invention relates to a drive device for driving an element, having the following: a toothed belt drive with a toothed belt, a frame element which forms two opposite connection plates and a connection wall that connects the two connection plates together, at least three elongated force driving elements which are secured to the toothed belt and are aligned parallel to the width (B) of the toothed belt and parallel to one another and which are arranged within the frame element, wherein a central force driving element is rotationally fixed to the two connection plates, and the end sections of each adjacent outer force driving element extend through curved elongated holes of the connection plate, whereby the outer force driving element can be pivoted and the end faces of the outer force driving elements have cylindrical projections, which are designed as axle stubs and each of which has a roller, outside of one of the connection plates, a toothed disc with tooth recesses for catching teeth of the toothed belt and force driving element recesses for catching the force driving elements, a non-linear guide path, at least some sections of which run parallel to the extension of the toothed belt and in which the rollers arranged on the outer force driving elements are guided, and a drive means which is connected to the frame element and is used to connect to the element to be driven.

A sliding window assembly includes a frame with a track, and a sliding window portion disposed in the frame and displaceable in the track between a closed position and an open position. The sliding window portion includes a handle pivotable between a lock position and a slide position, and a driving pin coupled with the handle and engaging the track. The driving pin defines a pivot axis for the handle. A guide pin spaced from the driving pin is selectively engageable with the track when the handle is pivoted from the lock position to the slide position. With the handle in the slide position, the sliding window portion is displaceable from its closed position to an open position.

A sliding-door drive device includes: a motor; a speed reducing mechanism reducing rotation of the motor; opening and closing cables having respective one ends secured to a sliding door of a vehicle; an opening drum, having the opening cable wound therearound, to be rotated by the motor through the speed reducing mechanism; and a closing drum, having the closing cable wound therearound, to be rotated by the motor through the speed reducing mechanism. Further, rotation axes of the motor, the opening drum, and the closing drum are parallel, and the opening drum and the closing drum are arranged parallel in radial directions thereof.

A cover device includes a cover that is displaced between a covering position where an upper side of a striker is covered, and an exposure position where the striker is exposed upward, and an open-close mechanism that displaces the cover to the covering position when a slide door performs an opening operation, and displaces the cover to the exposure position when the slide door performs a closing operation.

A wall surface of a reinforcing bracket is provided with engagement holes (engaged portions) on a front side and a rear side, respectively. A lower arm of a front door and a lower arm of a rear door are each provided with an engagement projection (engaging portion) that engages with an engagement hole when the front door and the rear door fully close.

A device for a vehicle roof may have a guide element with a slideway, a bolt which can be displaced relative to the guide element and can be guided thereby on the slideway. The bolt and the guide element have a common contact area which may be formed by a protrusion on the bolt and the slideway, the protrusion being configured to introduce a corresponding notch into the slideway during the displacement along the slideway.