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US 11,745,567 B2Granted
Vehicle door reinforcement assembly
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsDeepak Patel, Zhibing Deng, Joseph E. Abramczyk
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Abstract
An assembly includes a vehicle body including a door opening and a first member and a second member each supported by the vehicle body. The first member and the second member are rotatable relative to each other and relative to the vehicle body across the door opening from an undeployed position to deployed position. The first member and the second member engage each other in the deployed position.
Claims19
An assembly comprising:
- a vehicle body including a door opening extending along a longitudinal axis;
- and
- a first member and a second member each supported by the vehicle body;
- the first member and the second member being rotatable relative to each other and relative to the vehicle body across the door opening from an undeployed position to a deployed position;
- the first member and the second member being elongated along the longitudinal axis in the undeployed position and elongated upwardly across the door opening in the deployed position;
- the first member and the second member being spaced from each other along the longitudinal axis in the undeployed position;
- and
- the first member and the second member engaging each other in the deployed position.
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An assembly comprising:
- a base;
- a first member and a second member each rotatably connected to the base;
- the first member and the second member being rotatable relative to each other and relative to the base from an undeployed position to a deployed position;
- the first member and the second member engaging each other in the deployed position;
- a pyrotechnic actuator operatively connected to the first member and/or the second member;
- and
- pins rotatably connecting the first member and the second member to the base.
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An assembly comprising:
- a vehicle body including a door opening;
- and
- a first member and a second member each supported by the vehicle body;
- the first member and the second member being rotatable relative to each other and relative to the vehicle body across the door opening from an undeployed position to deployed position;
- and
- the first member and the second member engaging each other in the deployed position;
- a base supported by the vehicle body, the first member and the second member being rotatably connected to the base;
- the base including a ledge and the first member including a brace disengaged with the ledge in the undeployed position and engaged with the ledge in the deployed position;
- and
- the first member including a body rotatably engaged with the base and the brace extends from the body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.