Locking mechanism for slideable vehicle doors
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsDeepak Patel, Zhibing Deng, Joseph E. Abramczyk
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Abstract
An assembly for a vehicle includes a first door and a second door movable from an open position to a closed position. The assembly includes a first anchor supported by the first pillar movable along an axis to an engaged position. The assembly includes a first rod supported by the first door movable along an axis to an engaged position. The assembly includes a second rod supported by the second door movable along the axis to an engaged position. The first anchor is lockingly engaged with the first rod when first anchor is in the engaged position. The first rod is lockingly engaged with the second rod when the first rod is in the engaged position and the first anchor is in the engaged position.
Claims16
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a first pillar and a second pillar spaced from each other;
- a first door supported by the first pillar and a second door supported by the second pillar, the first door and the second door being movable relative to each other between an open position and a closed position;
- a first anchor supported by the first pillar and a second anchor supported by the second pillar;
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- a first rod supported by and movable relative to the first door and a second rod supported by and movable relative to the second door;
- the first rod and the second rod being coaxial on an axis and the first rod being translatable by the first anchor along the axis into engagement with the second rod and the second rod being translatable by the first rod into engagement with the second anchor when the first door and second door are in the closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.