US 12,454,855 B2
Vehicle structure
Yuki Ide, Ikeda (JP); Hiroshi Satake, Ikeda (JP); Naoki Nishimura, Ikeda (JP); and Akinori Suzuki, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to AISIN CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed by AISIN CORPORATION, Aichi (JP)
Filed on Mar. 20, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/611,346.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-049706 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0328233 A1, Oct. 3, 2024
Int. Cl. E05F 15/643 (2015.01); B60J 5/06 (2006.01)
CPC E05F 15/643 (2015.01) [B60J 5/06 (2013.01); E05Y 2201/64 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/531 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle structure provided with a sliding door, the vehicle structure comprising:
a sliding door operation device configured to move the sliding door on a side portion of a vehicle, wherein
the sliding door operation device includes
a motor unit attached to a predetermined position of the side portion of the vehicle on an inner side of a vehicle compartment, and
a moving member operating mechanism portion including a belt or a wire-shaped moving member coupled to the sliding door and a driven rotary member that receives a rotational driving force from the motor unit, the moving member being movable along a predetermined path on an outer surface side of the side portion of the vehicle, and
the motor unit and the driven rotary member are provided with a serration shaft portion and a serration hole that are fitted to each other as a drive coupling unit of the motor unit and the driven rotary member,
the vehicle structure provided with the sliding door further comprising:
a rotation operation unit configured to rotate the motor unit about centers of the serration shaft portion and the serration hole when the motor unit is pushed toward the driven rotary member to fit the serration shaft portion and the serration hole to each other in a state in which the motor unit is disposed on a front side of the driven rotary member while not being attached to the predetermined position, wherein
the side portion on the inner side of the vehicle compartment is provided with a first guide portion disposed on the front side of the driven rotary member,
the motor unit is provided with a first guided portion,
the side portion on the inner side of the vehicle compartment is provided with a second guide portion disposed closer to the driven rotary member than the first guide portion,
the motor unit is provided with a second guided portion,
the motor unit is set such that the first guided portion comes into contact with the first guide portion in a state in which the motor unit is not attached to the predetermined position, and thus the serration shaft portion and the serration hole are close to each other and allow alignment of center positions thereof,
the motor unit rotates in response to the second guided portion being brought into contact with the second guide portion and moved while being guided by the second guide portion when the motor unit is pushed toward the driven rotary member in a state in which the first guided portion is in contact with the first guide portion, and
the rotation operation unit includes the second guided portion and the second guide portion.