DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a door opening and closing structure of a vehicle, capable of decreasing the number of parts, reducing the deflection width of a member passing through the opening part of a door, and effectively using the inside of a cabin. SOLUTION: This door opening and closing structure has a driving means 2 provided on the cabin side from an opening part S of a door D and a power transmission mechanism 3 connecting the driving means 2 and the door D. The power transmission mechanism 3 includes a slider member 4 reciprocating linearly by the driving means 2 and a link member 5 connecting the slider member 4 and the door D. The link member 5 is rotatably connected to the slider member 4 and the door D, and has a curved part 5a curved to project toward the opposite side to the side where the center of rotation of the door D is positioned on the connecting part 7 side, and a linear part 5b formed substantially linearly on the connecting part 8 side. In the process in the fully open state of the door D and in the totally closed state thereof, the curved part 5a is passed through the opening part S seen from the direction of the rotating shaft of the door D. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO