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US 12,037,835 B2Granted
Window regulator
AssigneeAisin Corporation
InventorsKenji Yamamoto, Tatsuro Torimoto
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Abstract
A window regulator has a guide rail extending in a drive direction of a window glass, and a slider supporting the window glass and supported on the guide rail so as to slide in the drive direction. In the window regulator, the guide rail has a grease application region extending in the drive direction, and the slider has multiple grease application portions provided along the drive direction to apply grease in a stepwise manner to the grease application region.
Claims11
A window regulator comprising:
- a guide rail extending in a drive direction of a window glass;
- and
- a slider supporting the window glass and supported on the guide rail so as to slide in the drive direction, wherein
- the guide rail has a grease application region extending in the drive direction,
- the slider has multiple grease application portions provided along the drive direction to apply grease in a stepwise manner to the grease application region,
- the multiple grease application portions include a multistep claw portion having multiple claw elements protruding toward the grease application region,
- at least one of the multiple claw elements of the multistep claw portion is elastically deformable by contacting the grease application region, and
- in a free state of the multistep claw portion, a distance between each of the multiple claw elements and the grease application region varies.
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A window regulator comprising:
- a guide rail extending in a drive direction of a window glass;
- and
- a slider supporting the window glass and supported on the guide rail so as to slide in the drive direction, wherein
- the guide rail has a grease application region extending in the drive direction,
- the slider has multiple grease application portions provided along the drive direction to apply grease in a stepwise manner to the grease application region,
- the multiple grease application portions include a multistep claw portion having multiple claw elements protruding toward the grease application region, and
- the multiple claw elements have cutout portions facing the grease application region.
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A window regulator comprising:
- a guide rail extending in a drive direction of a window glass;
- and
- a slider supporting the window glass and supported on the guide rail so as to slide in the drive direction, wherein
- the guide rail has a grease application region extending in the drive direction,
- the slider has multiple grease application portions provided along the drive direction to apply grease in a stepwise manner to the grease application region,
- the multiple grease application portions include a multistep claw portion having multiple claw elements protruding toward the grease application region, and
- the multiple grease application portions include a grease release portion configured to release the grease from the grease application region and a grease return portion configured to return the grease, which has been released by the grease release portion, to the grease application region.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.