Abstract:
The invention relates to a sheath stop including: a hole through which a window lift cable is to pass; and a sheath abutment for locking the sheath of the window lift cable on one side of the sheath stop and wherein, on the other side of the sheath stop, the sheath stop includes a shaft provided so as to be mounted onto a bracket of the sheath stop such that the sheath stop has a freely rotatable mounting configuration on the bracket. The shaft extends transversely to the main orientation of the passage hole, and the passage hole has a partial side clearance that allows the cable a degree of bending freedom within a plane perpendicular to the shaft when the sheath stop freely pivots about the shaft.
Abstract:
A cable deflecting piece, which is fastened on a rail head or rail foot of a guide rail and is intended for a cable operated window lifter, contains a base body which during mounting and following fastening of the cable deflecting piece, abuts against the guide rail on one side of the rail head or rail foot, also contains a rotary and bearing pin, which projects from the base body, can be inserted in a position in which it is tilted in relation to the longitudinal extension of the guide rail, into a rotary and bearing opening of the rail head or rail foot and can be pivoted about a cable deflecting piece, further contains a rotation prevention means which, in a final mounting position, once the cable deflecting piece has been pivoted about the mounting axis of rotation, secures the connection of the cable deflection piece to the rail head or rail foot such that the cable deflecting piece cannot rotate and additionally contains a device which is formed on the basic body and is intended for securing the abutment of the base body against the rail head or rail foot perpendicular to the longitudinal extension of the guide rail.
Abstract:
In a window regulator 10, when a pin bolt 42 provisionally attached to a pulley 22 and a pulley support 54 is fastened to a door panel 14 by a nut 52, the pulley 22 and the pulley support 54 are supported on the pin bolt 42 and attached to a predetermined position on the door panel 14. Here, in the above-described provisionally attached state, the pin bolt 42 is held in the pulley 22 by pin member holding claws 74 of the pulley 22, and the pulley 22 is held in the pulley support 54 by pulley holding claws 68 of the pulley support 54. Consequently, when the pin bolt 42 is to be fastened to a body panel, the pulley 22, the pulley support 54, and the pin bolt 42 can be handled as a single part. Thus, the work of attaching a pulley and a pulley support to a body panel of a vehicle can be facilitated.
Abstract:
A cable tensioner for a vehicle window regulator includes a screw and nut assembly with an irreversible thread lead angle, a first spring designed to actuate the screw and nut assembly when there is slack in a cable and a second spring designed to block the screw and nut assembly when there is excessive tension in the cable. The cable tensioner ensures that compensation for the elongation of the cable is irreversible.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a structural supporting module for motor vehicle doors meant to facilitate the mounting tasks of the various functional elements incorporated in it, which are conventionally provided on such doors. The present invention is characterised by a special configuration of the window lifter mechanism with some of its components integrated in the module itself. It characterised the fact that the rails are independent of the cable redirecting means, so that the rails do not withstand the loads produced in said elements, acting only to guide the sliders.
Abstract:
An automotive vehicle door has a glass window that is raised and lowered by a window regulator that includes a roller cable assembly (15). The roller cable assembly (15) has a rolled section guide rail (18) and a bracket assembly (16) at the lower end portion of the glass window that runs on an L-shaped flange (36) of the guide rail (18). The roller cable assembly (15) includes upper and lower roller assemblies (28 and 30) at the respective upper and lower ends of guide rail (18) and a cable (20) that is trained on rollers (22 and 24) of the roller assemblies and on a drive roller (26) that is driven by an electric motor (32). Each roller assembly includes a base (42) that is slideably attached to the guide rail (16) and a detachable cap pin (44) that attaches the guide roller to the base (42).
Abstract:
A powered sliding device for sliding a vehicle sliding door along a guide rail comprises a base plate fixed to the vehicle body, a wire drum rotatably mounted on the base plate and rotated by a motor, a wire cable provided between the wire drum and the sliding door, a first holder provided in the vicinity of one end of the guide rail and having a first pulley making contact with the wire cable, a second holder provided in the vicinity of the other end of the guide rail and having a second pulley making contact with the wire cable, a tension roller provided on the base plate for making contact with the wire cable by resiliency of a spring, a flexible cable sheath covering the outer periphery of the wire cable between the first holder and the base plate and having one end to be connected to the first holder, a supporting member connected to the other end of the cable sheath. The supporting member is slidably mounted to the base plate in parallel with a running direction of the wire cable.
Abstract:
A mechanism particularly well suited for converting bidirectional rotation, as of a reversible electric motor or a hand crank, into the linear up and down motion of a windowpane relative to the frame of a passenger car door. Included is an elongate guide rail gently curved longitudinally to conform to the vertical curvature of the vehicular door and providing a vertical guideway on its convex side. A wire rope or cable is looped about a pair of terminal guide pulleys or nonrotatable guides on the opposite ends of the guide rail. One of the two stretches of the cable is coupled to a windowpane carriage which is coupled to the windowpane for joint up and down movement therewith along the guideway. A drive mechanism including a drive reel is mounted to the guide rail and coupled to the other stretch of the cable for bidirectionally driving the windowpane carriage along the guideway. The drive mechanism is compactly disposed on the concave side of the guide rail for minimal space requirement.
Abstract:
Method for securing a wire in its tensioned condition in a wire driving type window regulator comprising a carrier plate to which a window glass is secured mounted on a pair of guide rails, a raising and a lowering wires each one end of which is secured to the carrier plate and each intermediate portion of which is inserted into an outer tube, said wires being moved up and down directions along a reciprocal passage running partially along the guide rails by a driving means, is carried out by boring a guide hole on either of supporting plates which support the guide rails into which a tube end plug is slidably inserted, and after then the tube end plug is pressed in the tensioned direction of the wire, and an edge of an opening of the guide hole being cut to make a cut piece which is erected so as to maintain the tensioned condition of the wire.
Abstract:
An operating mechanism for the window in a motorcar door and the like includes guiding devices, including at least one deflecting element, which engage a wire, cable or other elongated tension member and guide the tension member on the door in a loop-shaped path when the tension member is driven in the path alternatively in two opposite, longitudinal directions. The motion of the tension member is transmitted to the window. The tension member stretches under the longitudinal stresses exerted thereon by the drive and the window and needs to be tensioned. According to the invention, a spring in a permanently stressed condition biases the deflecting element in a direction to lengthen the path of the tension member and for thereby compensating for slack in the engaged portion of the tension member when the tension member moves in one longitudinal direction, whereby the spring reaches a partly relaxed condition. A protecting mechanism protects the spring against return from the partly relaxed condition toward the stressed condition when the tension member moves in the opposite direction.