Abstract:
A hinge assembly for a first door of a pair of opposing-hinged doors includes a curved extension, a first pivot connection interconnecting the curved extension and a body of the vehicle, and a second pivot connection interconnecting the curved extension and the first door. When opening the first door, a first edge of the first door pivots about the first pivot connection away from the body and draws a second edge of the door away from an adjacent second door. The first door pivots about the second pivot connection to open the first door independently of the adjacent second door.
Abstract:
A side sliding door apparatus for a vehicle includes one of two sliding doors driven by an actuator, and the other moves in conjunction with the one sliding door via a direction converting mechanism. When the sliding door is in a closed condition, a latch rod is inserted into a lock hole to lock the sliding doors in the closed condition. A roller is pushed up on a cam surface when the sliding doors are opened, which releases the locking. An upper level surface of the cam surface forms an inclined surface with a downward gradient, which prevents the roller from unexpectedly going beyond the starting end of the upper level surface and dropping due to vibration or the like being applied to the slider in the unlocked condition, and prevents the locking with the locking mechanism in response to the next sliding door closing command.
Abstract:
The sliding door comprises a rail (10) with a door leaf guided thereon by way of a running device (13). The path of the door leaf is limited by a limiting device (15). The limiting device (15) forms an arm (31) together with an elongated coupler (30), said arm running parallel to the rail (10) and comprising a coupling part (32) for gripping together with the gripper part (17) of the damper (20). The coupling part (32) stands out laterally from the flat arm (31) so that no height adjustment of the coupling part or the gripper part is required when the height of the door leaf (12) changes.
Abstract:
A retraction mechanism includes a striker provided in either a fixed body or a movable body which is movably supported by the fixed body; a catcher provided in the other body and engaging the striker at a predetermined moved position of the movable body to be capable of engaging and disengaging; and an urging device enabling to accumulate urging forces in a moving process of the movable body. The retraction mechanism retracts the movable body by the urging forces accumulated in the urging device in a state wherein the striker and the catcher are engaged. The retraction mechanism includes a guide device controlling a relative position between the striker and the catcher, and when the striker and the catcher change the relative position, the change thereof is absorbed by the guide device, so that the engagement becomes possible.
Abstract:
A buffer which can achieve a buffering effect corresponding to the speed of a sliding door is provided. Corresponding to the abutment force of an engagement pin 3 which is on a sliding door 2 with respect to a retaining recessed portion 67 of a hook body 61 which is slidably provided in a case body, an engagement stepped portion 71 of the hook body 61 presses a pressing member 44, and a brake pad 47 of the pressing member 44 and a brake pad 39 of a slider 31 come into sliding contact with a brake plate 28.
Abstract:
When a sliding door (3) as a plate-like object is moved in a front and rear direction from a closed position to an opening preparation position, a rotatable rail (20) rotates from a horizontal lying position to a vertical standing position about a rotation axis (L1). When the sliding door is in the opening preparation position, a roller (40) of the sliding door (3) rides on a running track (25b) of the rotatable rail (20). When the sliding door (3) is further moved from the opening preparation position to an open position, the roller (40) transfers from the running track (25b) to an auxiliary track (26) of an adjacent rotatable rail (20). The rotatable rail (20) is biased toward the standing position by an elastic force of a torsion spring (18) and maintained in the standing position by an arm (13). This allows the sliding door (3) to be returned to the opening preparation position.
Abstract:
A catcher (2) comprises a catcher stopper (21), a holding body (22) for holding a striker body (1), and a biasing body (23) for them. When the catcher stopper (21) is projected by the biasing body (23), the holding body (22) is located at the forward position in a non-holding state. When the holding body (22) is located at the backward position in a holding state, the catcher stopper (21) is retracted. An engaging hole (402) for the catcher stopper (21) is formed in a recess (MB). A biasing force is stored in the biasing body (3) when the catcher (2) is located at the reference position where the catcher stopper (21) is engaged with the engaging hole (402). When the movable body (M) is moved forward to the self-propelling start position, the striker body (1) is advanced into the holding body (22) of the catcher (2) at the reference position.
Abstract:
A sliding door device has a first pin body provided, at a floor surface; a guide member provided at the door and having a guide groove in which the first pin body fits when the door is closed; and a second pin body that is provided on the floor surface and can be fit in a door groove formed at the door bottom. When the closed door slides in an opening direction and toward the back side of the wall surface, the guide member moves relatively along the first pin body while the first pin body is fit in the guide groove of the guide member. When the door slides further in the opening direction, the second pin body gets in the door groove of the door, and the door slides along the second pin body while the second pin body is fit in the sliding groove of the door.
Abstract:
A sliding assistance mechanism for helping a switching operation of a moving body on a main body side from a first position to a second position, or from the second position to the first position, includes a case 1 attached to the main body side; first and second moving members (sliders 2A, 2B) slidably placed in the case 1, respectively; a pair of latches 5, 5 pivotally supported at each moving member, respectively, and releasably locked to corresponding parts of a case side; and an urging device 3 provided between both moving members. When the moving members are halfway switched to the first position from the second position, or to the second position from the first position, an engagement of one of the latches is released by an engagement pin 9 additionally provided in the moving body, and the engagement pins are pulled with the latch into the first position or the second position with an approaching drive through the moving members and the urging device 3 to a side of the other latch.
Abstract:
In order to reduce the stresses occurring during the closing of a manually closable body component, e.g. a door, a method of controlling the closing movement is proposed in which, during the closing movement, departing from an opened position, the body component passes through a first movement range in which the body component is moved towards the closed position without any action by a control member, and, following the first movement range, the body component passes through a second movement range in which the closing movement of the body component is varied in such a manner by the action of the control member that the residual kinetic energy of the body component does not exceed a predetermined limit value after passing through the second movement range, irrespective of the initial speed. The residual kinetic energy is not sufficient to close the body component automatically. The body component is therefore automatically drawn in a third movement range following the second movement range until a pre catch or main catch of a lock is reached.The invention relates furthermore to a corresponding control device.