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US 10,822,832 B2Granted
Motor vehicle door anti-rattle mechanism
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsBrian Westgarth, Ian Patterson, Jack Whitehurst, Rob Swann
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Abstract
A motor vehicle door anti-rattle mechanism includes male and female parts. The male part is fastened to a door of a motor vehicle and the female part is fastened to a door pillar of the motor vehicle. The male part includes an expandable member that is selectively engageable with a recess in the female part in order to inhibit relative movement between the male and female parts and, hence, rattling of the door.
Claims14
A motor vehicle door anti-rattle mechanism, comprising:
- a male part including an actuation member having an actuator head at a first end of an actuator rod and a body slidingly supporting the actuator rod of the actuation member fastened to one of a door and a door pillar of a motor vehicle;
- a female part located on the other of the door and the door pillar;
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- an expandable member made from an elastically compressible material carried on the actuator rod and interposed between an end face of the body and a face of the actuator head, wherein when the male part, in a non-actuated state, is engageable in a recess in the female part and when the male part is engaged in the recess and is actuated to inhibit relative movement between the male and female parts the expandable member has a surface which is brought into contact with the recess in the female part by axial compression of the expandable member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.