Abstract:
A safety apparatus for a sliding door of a vehicle, including a lower rail including a mid stopper bracket; and an arm affixed at an external extremity to the sliding door and connected at an internal extremity to the lower rail, the arm including a mid stopper lever that is rotatable. In an open position, the mid stopper lever contacts the mid stopper bracket and contacts a tongue of the internal extremity of the arm to prevent the sliding door from exceeding a mid open position.
Abstract:
The gas spring includes a cylindrical cylinder body that stores gas, a piston body that partitions the inside of the cylinder body into a rod-side gas chamber and a piston-side gas chamber as having a flow path capable of allowing gas flow between the rod-side gas chamber and the piston-side gas chamber, a rod body that is connected to the piston body as having a hollow portion, a push rod that moves in the axial direction of the rod body with operation of an operator as being inserted to the hollow portion of the rod body, and a valve that the flow path with movement in the axial direction in the piston body as being arranged separately from the push rod and movable with the push rod.
Abstract:
A building closure operator includes an operator arm pivotable about an arm axis from an arm closed position to an arm open position, an arm lock actuatable to lock the arm in different locked positions and releasable to release the arm, and an articulatable lever pivotable about a lever axis parallel to the arm axis, from a lever home position corresponding to the arm closed position, to a lever actuated position corresponding to the arm open position. The lever includes a lever coupling maintainable in the lever actuated position, and a lever handle pivotable with respect to the lever coupling back to the home position to actuate the arm lock to lock the arm in one of the different locked positions.
Abstract:
A sliding door assembly for a refrigerated display case is provided. The sliding door assembly includes a door frame having a top frame segment and a plurality of sliding bearings that slide along channels within the top frame segment. A plurality of display case doors are coupled to the sliding bearings and configured to slide, along with the sliding bearings, between an open position and a closed position. The display case doors may be suspended from the sliding bearings. The sliding door assembly may include an automatic closure system coupled to the display case doors and configured to apply a closing force that automatically returns the display case doors to the closed position. One or more magnets may apply a magnetic damping force as the display case doors approach the closed position to facilitate a soft closure of the display case doors.
Abstract:
Movable partition systems include an elongated, fixed drive member extending along a track, a partition that is automatically and manually movable along the track, and a motor carried by the movable partition configured to drive a rotatable drive member that is engagable with the elongated, fixed drive member. The rotatable drive member may be engaged with, and disengaged from, the fixed drive member. Methods of moving a partition along a track include actuating a motor carried by a movable partition to drive rotation of a drive member while the drive member is engaged with an elongated, fixed drive member, and manually moving the partition along the track while the rotatable drive member is disengaged from the fixed drive member. Methods of installing a movable partition system include configuring a rotatable drive member to be capable of engagement with, and disengagement from, an elongated, fixed drive member.
Abstract:
An automated door closure system regulate the release and closure of a door in a door assembly that includes a primary door, a secondary door, and a door frame. The system includes a door closer, a control unit, and an automatic input sensor. The door closer, which is connected between the secondary door and the door frame and includes a cylinder and an operating rod, biases the secondary door toward a closed position. The control unit includes a motive device and a rod catch element. The rod catch element, which may be moved by the motor, is positioned in proximity to the operating rod to adjustably prevent the secondary door from being closed. The automatic input sensor detects a door assembly use condition. The control unit controls the motive device based on the detected condition to move the rod catch element, allowing the door closer to close the secondary door.
Abstract:
A hinge including a first hinge member including a first magnetic element; and a second hinge member including a second magnetic element, wherein the first and second hinge members are hingedly mounted to each other. The first and second hinge members are substantially maintained in a retained position via magnetic force between the first and second magnetic elements.
Abstract:
In a sliding door with a door panel supported by a carriage disposed on a guide rail so as to foe movable between spaced door stops, the door stops include shock absorbers and the carriage has contact elements for contact with the shock absorbers. The shock absorbers further include return springs which are compressed by the engagement of the sliding door panel, the sliding door panel being lockable in its end positions by a locking arrangement for retaining it in an end position.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the field of sliding door systems. The invention relates to a second wheel holder (800) enabling using a flexible number of wheels in a wheel carriage (300) for a sliding door resting in sliding track (106). The second wheel holder (800) comprises one attachment means (810) adapted to be removably attached to the first wheel connection means (340) and at least two second wheel connection means (820) each adapted to connect one wheel (330). The invention also relates to a method for exchanging the wheels (330) and of a wheel carriage (300), by lowering a door panel and replacing the wheels, by removing the second wheel holder (800), while the wheel carriage (300) is resting in the sliding track (106).
Abstract:
A sliding door structure for a vehicle is provided, which includes a door panel member including a door inner panel and a door latch reinforcement, having a refractive part, and slidably provided in the sliding door; a pole installed at the refractive part of the door panel member; and a side panel corresponding to the door panel member, provided on the side of the vehicle, having an inserting hole into which the pole is inserted. It is possible to improve marketable quality and safety and ensure rigidity to increase performance of a vehicle body by preventing separation from a vehicle when a sliding door for the vehicle opens and closes.