US 12,129,698 B2
Sliding door driving device
Taishi Isono, Kariya (JP); Akinori Suzuki, Kariya (JP); Wataru Kuga, Ikeda (JP); Yuki Ide, Ikeda (JP); Kouhei Hama, Ikeda (JP); Hiroshi Fujishita, Ikeda (JP); and Seiichi Harai, Ikeda (JP)
Assigned to AISIN CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed by AISIN CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed on Jan. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/152,203.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-056035 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0313581 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. E05D 15/10 (2006.01); E05F 15/643 (2015.01)
CPC E05D 15/1047 (2013.01) [E05F 15/643 (2015.01); E05Y 2201/11 (2013.01); E05Y 2201/652 (2013.01); E05Y 2201/668 (2013.01); E05Y 2201/684 (2013.01); E05Y 2800/428 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/531 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sliding door driving device that 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 comprising:
an elongated guide frame;
a first driven pulley and a second driven pulley that are rotatably supported by the guide frame at both ends in a longitudinal direction of the guide frame;
a driving pulley rotatably supported in an accommodation portion of the guide frame in between the first driven pulley and the second driven pulley;
a belt that is wound around the driving pulley, the first driven pulley, and the second driven pulley; and
a cover that covers the belt, the cover including 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, a guide wall that extends downward from a middle portion of the upper wall, and an inner wall that extends downward from an inner end of the upper wall in the width direction,
wherein the upper wall includes an inner upper wall and an outer upper wall that each cover the belt from above on either side of the guide wall, and
the inner upper wall and the inner wall form a space in which the belt is routed.