Power sliding device of vehicle sliding door
A powered sliding device comprises wire cables ( 21′, 21″ ) provided between a sliding door ( 11 ) and a vehicle body ( 10 ), and a power unit ( 20 ) for sliding the sliding door when the wire cables are moved by the power of a motor. The power unit is provided in the inner space of the sliding door. The wire cables are composed of the door-opening cable ( 21′ ) and the door-closing cable ( 21″ ) connected to the power unit at a base end side, respectively. A front end of the door-opening cable is fixed to the vicinity of the rear end of a lower rail ( 14 ) after having passed through a lower roller bracket ( 18 ) of the sliding door, and the front end of the door-closing cable is fixed to the vicinity of the front end of a center rail ( 16 ) after having passed though a center roller bracket ( 19 ) of the sliding door.
1. A powered sliding device of a vehicle sliding door including a sliding door slidably mounted on a vehicle body in a forward door-closing direction and in a backward door-opening direction, a wire cable provided between the sliding door and the vehicle body, and a power unit for sliding the sliding door in the door-closing direction and in the door-opening direction by moving the wire cable by a motor power, comprising:
a lower roller bracket provided in a lower portion of a front side portion of the sliding door;
a center roller bracket provided in a rear side portion of the sliding door;
a lower rail, with which the lower roller bracket is slidably engaged, being provided near or at a lower part of an ingress/egress aperture of the vehicle body, said lower rail being isolated from an outside of the vehicle body when the sliding door is closed;
a center rail, with which the center roller bracket is slidably engaged, being provided on a quarter panel of the vehicle body, said center rail being not isolated from the outside of the vehicle body even when the sliding door is closed;
said power unit being provided in an inside space of the sliding door;
said wire cable including a door-opening cable and a door-closing cable, each of the door-opening cable and the door-closing cable having base side end, each of the base side ends being coupled to the power unit;
a distal end of the door-opening cable being protruded outside the sliding door from the front side portion of the sliding door, extended in a rearward direction within the lower rail by way of the lower roller bracket, and fixed to a position near or at a rear end of the lower rail;
a distal end of the door-closing cable being protruded outside the sliding door from the rear side portion of the sliding door, extended in a forward direction within the center rail by way of the center roller bracket, and fixed to a position near or at a front end of the center rail.
2. The powered sliding device of the vehicle sliding door according to claim 1 , wherein a front pulley, against which the door-opening cable abuts, is mounted on the lower roller bracket by a vertical shaft.
3. The powered sliding device of the vehicle sliding door according to claim 1 , wherein a rear pulley, against which the door-closing cable abuts, is mounted on the center roller bracket by a vertical shaft.