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 door opening assembly is provided for moving a door of a vehicle between an open position and a closed position. The assembly includes a frame member coupled to the vehicle, a link is coupled to the frame member, and a link arm pivotally coupled to the link. A pivot arm is pivotally coupled to the frame member and a pivot bracket is pivotally coupled to the door and the pivot arm. The pivot bracket includes a slot such that a pin on the link arm slides therethrough. The assembly includes a gear rack and a gear operably coupled to the gear rack. The gear is driven by a motor as the door moves between its open and closed positions. The assembly further includes a guide track coupled to the vehicle and a roller rotatably driven along the guide track as the door moves between its open and closed positions.

A vehicle slide door support device connects a slide door to a vehicle body. The slide door is configured to open and close a door opening formed in a side surface of the vehicle body. The device includes: a first guide rail arranged on a lower portion of the slide door and regulating a movement direction of the slide door; a first hinge unit arranged below the door opening and configured to move relative to the first guide rail in a longitudinal direction of the first guide rail; a second guide rail arranged above the first hinge unit on the vehicle body and regulating the movement direction of the slide door; and a second hinge unit arranged above the first guide rail on the slide door and configured to move relative to the second guide rail in a longitudinal direction of the second guide rail.

A cross-sectional shape of an open-side cable 22a is formed into a round shape, and a cross-sectional shape of respective connecting units 52 between a pulley groove 50 of a pulley 46 and flange portions 51 is formed into a circular arc shape. Thus, it is possible to surely suppress damage of the open-side cable 22a caused by being strongly pressed to a corner as a conventional manner. Therefore, it is possible to improve durability of the open-side cable 22a, whereby it is possible to extend a maintenance cycle of a driving unit and obtain high reliability thereof.

A sliding door structure includes a rotary part that can rotate with respect to a door, a pair of first rollers holding a first guide rail therebetween, a pair of second rollers holding a second guide rail therebetween, a first roller support part that rotatably supports the pair of first rollers and can rotate with respect to the rotary part, and a second roller support part that rotatably supports the pair of second rollers and can rotate with respect to the rotary part.

The opening and closing mechanism for opening and closing bodies has a first opening and closing body, a second opening and closing body, a first support member, a second support member, a first and second guide member, wherein a first and a second guide member intermediate portion are disposed to have an overlapping region, in the overlapping region, one of the first guide member intermediate portion and the second guide member intermediate portion is arranged, with respect to the other of the first guide member intermediate portion and the second guide member intermediate portion, in a direction to which a load is applied, and each of the first to fourth connecting portions has a rolling element provided at a side so as to apply a load toward toe guide members.

A rotary wing aircraft with a fuselage that is equipped with at least one rail, comprising at least one sliding element, in particular a sliding door or a sliding window, that is slidably supported by the at least one rail, wherein the at least one sliding element is at least slidable along the at least one rail by means of an opening sliding movement into an opening movement direction from a fully closed position into a fully opened position, wherein a dampening unit is provided that dampens the opening sliding movement of the at least one sliding element upon reaching of the fully opened position.

A side sliding door of a railway vehicle comprises a door body (100), and a driving device for the opening and closing of a doorway. An outer surface of the door body (100) is flush with an outer surface of the vehicle body when the door body (100) is closed. A movement track of the door body is arranged as an arc-plus-linear reciprocating motion. The outer surface of the door body is flush with the outer surface of the vehicle body when the door body is closed, so that there exists no height difference between the vehicle body and a doorway of the side sliding door. Snow accumulation at doorway under an extreme cold working condition is avoided, and then the risk of a door body being frozen is reduced.

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 into which the cable end with a shaft hole is inserted; and a fastener retaining the cable end inserted in a leading end of the guide pin. A recess is formed toward a guide pin axial line at the leading end. An external diameter of the leading end is smaller than an internal diameter of the shaft hole. The fastener includes a supporting part supporting the cable end inserted into the leading end, from the leading end side, and a protrusion part engaged with the recess.

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.