Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle window assembly with horizontal slider
- Patent Title (中): 车窗组合带水平滑块
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Application No.: US11974588Application Date: 2007-10-15
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Publication No.: US07641265B2Publication Date: 2010-01-05
- Inventor: Shane C. Seiple , Charles E. Ash , H. Richard Voght
- Applicant: Shane C. Seiple , Charles E. Ash , H. Richard Voght
- Applicant Address: US OH Toledo
- Assignee: Pilkington North America, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Pilkington North America, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Toledo
- Agency: Marshall & Melhorn, LLC
- Main IPC: B60J7/00
- IPC: B60J7/00

Abstract:
A flush-flush horizontal vehicle window assembly is provided that includes a sliding panel with guide pins, formed with a load-bearing shoulder, on sliding panel corners, and a frame defining a window opening. The frame is attached to two fixed panels. Upper/lower tracks are attached above/below the window opening. Each track has a leading and a trailing guide path formed through a surface of the respective tracks, where the pins partially project into the guide paths and where load-bearing shoulder surfaces smoothly and reliably slide on the track surfaces. Each leading guide path is “S” shaped and each trailing guide path is shaped in a perpendicular manner at one end, which causes the sliding panel to smoothly enter and seal the window opening in a flush manner. An aesthetically pleasing flush-flush slider results when the sliding panel is in the plane of the window opening and further in the plane of the outer vehicle body panel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080100093A1 Vehicle window assembly with horizontal slider Public/Granted day:2008-05-01
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