Abstract:
Stabilizing mechanism for the rear end of a raised vehicle window includes a stabilizer track mounted in the door and including a vertical upper portion and a forward curving lower portion. A stabilizer link has a lower end carrying a roller captured in the track and an upper end pivoted to a sash bracket carried by the window. The link erects to a stand-up position extending between the track and the window when the window is raised. The link collapses to a stored position extending between the lower portion of the track and the sash bracket when the window is lowered. The link has an offset arm carrying a tapered pin which seats in a bushing carried by the door as the window reaches the fully raised position to stabilize the link to the door. The link and the sash bracket have interfitting tongue and groove elements which mate as the window reaches its fully raised position to stabilize the link to the window. A roller yieldably mounted on the window is carried into engagement with an angled wall of the door to force the window against the weather strip defining the window opening.
Abstract:
A method of securing a wedge assembly to a vehicle is shown and described. The method may include the following steps: providing the wedge assembly having a striker assembly, a support assembly and a shipping retainer, securing the wedge assembly with a moveable door of the vehicle, engaging the moveable door of the vehicle with a door engaging portion of the vehicle, and adhering the support assembly with the door engaging portion of the vehicle in a predetermined position. The method may further include the following steps: disengaging the moveable door of the vehicle from engagement with the door engaging portion of the vehicle causing the shipping retainer to disengage from the striker assembly, and securing the support assembly with the door engaging of the vehicle.
Abstract:
A gas strut assembly includes a housing defining an interior space. A rod is coupled to the housing, and is slideably moveable between an extended position and a retracted position. A flexible member is secured in position relative to the housing. A rigid member is coupled to and moveable with the rod. The flexible member includes at least one displaceable member that moves radially away from the central axis in response to a second radial force component of a closing force when engaged by the rigid member moving from the extended position into the retracted position. The flexible member includes a multi-layered structure that changes shape in response to a change in temperature to affect the magnitude of the second radial force component required to move the displaceable member.
Abstract:
A vehicle door is disclosed that has a movable window and a window regulator including a regulator rail and a regulator slider slidably mounted on the regulator rail and engaging the window for movement between a closed position and a fully open position. The door also has a window down stop stabilizer assembly including a position detecting assembly that detects when the window is in the fully open position, a bumper movable between a first position spaced from the window and a second position in contact with the window, and a bumper actuator that moves the bumper into and out of contact with the window. When the window is in the fully open position, the bumper actuator will move the bumper into the second position and when the window is not in the fully open position, the bumper actuator will move the bumper into the first position.
Abstract:
An opening and closing apparatus for an opening and closing body of a vehicle. The opening and closing apparatus includes a reciprocating member movable along a plane perpendicular to a hinge shaft. A connecting member is provided having a first end section fixed to the opening and closing body, and a second end section pivotally attached to the reciprocating member through a connecting shaft. The opening and closing body is moved to open and close through the connecting member upon a movement of the reciprocating member. In the opening and closing apparatus, the connecting member includes two side wall sections apart from each other in a direction parallel with the axis of the connecting shaft. A suppression member is disposed to a stationary body in the vehicle and so engaged between the two side wall sections as to be relatively movable to the connecting member.
Abstract:
A window stabilizer for a window pane, such as those used in automotive vehicles, is disclosed. The window stabilizer includes a bracket and a first and second roller. An axle is associated with each roller for rotatably mounting the roller to the bracket so that the axes of rotation of the rollers are spaced apart and parallel to each other. Furthermore, the spacing between the rollers is such that the rollers engage opposite sides of the window pane thus stabilizing the window pane during movement and while stationary.
Abstract:
A low friction tape adhesively connected to a movable vehicle door glass for isolating the door glass from a rubber glass run channel and providing a low friction surface for slidably engaging the glass run channel to prohibit glass chatter and noise created by the sliding engagement of the door glass within the glass run channel. The glass run channel is housed within a stationary frame portion of the vehicle door and is utilized to support and guide the door glass as well as seal the door glass to the vehicle door. Separate segments of the low friction tape are applied to the vertical edges and the periphery of the sides of the door glass to prohibit direct contact of the door glass and the glass run channel. Due to the curvature of the door glass, the low friction tape must be applied in several separate segments so that wrinkling of the low friction tape is avoided when applying the tape segments to the door glass. The opposite ends of each tape segment are tapered inward from the vertical edges of the door glass towards each other on both the front side and the back side of the door glass so that the ends of the tape segments do not peel back upon the door glass slidably engaging the glass run channel.
Abstract:
A jail-cell door is suspended from an overhead carriage, for horizontal displacement between closed and open positions, and an elongate slide bar has a horizontal lost-motion connection to the carriage. The slide bar mounts a reversible electric motor and is continuously engaged to the driven one of two rollers from which the carriage and its cell door are suspended; the shaft for the other suspension roller is journaled in the carriage. For driving the cell door in the door-opening direction, the outer lost-motion limit determines an expanded wheelbase of door suspension, and for driving the cell door in the door-closing direction, the inner lost-motion limit determines a slightly reduced wheelbase of door suspension. The slide bar carries cam formations at or near its respective ends for determining locking-bolt action only at the fully closed and fully open positions of the door, and a deadlock device is pivotally carried at one end of the slide bar, serving the door-closed condition. Assurance against bodily harm upon door closing is inherent in the design of drive-roller engagement to the rail on which both rollers travel, the engagement being to provide drive-roller slip at a predetermined threshold of tractive force.
Abstract:
A window guide arrangement for a door assembly of an automotive vehicle has a pair of one piece guide tracks and a pair of guides having spaced guide pins secured to a movable window and cooperatively received on the tracks and in which the guide tracks and guides are constructed and arranged such that they guide the window so that its inner side engages a seal and so that its top and lower ends are moved inwardly against the seal and outwardly of the door, respectively, when the window approaches its closed position so that its exterior is substantially flush at all sides with the adjacent exterior surfaces of the vehicle and door assembly.
Abstract:
A windowpane lifting mechanism comprises a cable member which is provided to vertically extend in a door shell and connected to a lower end portion of a windowpane by way of a connecting member so that the windowpane is moved up and down to close and open the window in response to up-and-down running of the cable member. The windowpane lifting mechanism further includes a first guide rail member which is provided on one side of the cable member to linearly extend substantially in the vertical direction, a second guide rail member provided to extend substantially in the vertical direction in nonparallel relation to the first guide rail member spaced therefrom by a predetermined distance in the direction of width of the windowpane, a first slider connected to a lower portion of the windowpane and engaged with the first guide rail member to be slidable along the first guide rail member, a second slider connected to a lower portion of the windowpane at a distance from the first slider and engaged with the second guide rail member to be slidable along the second guide rail member.