Door hinge device for vehicles
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsHyungin Yun, Chungsik Yim
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Abstract
A door hinge device for a vehicle is disclosed. In the door hinge device for the vehicle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in the vehicle without the B pillar, as the hinge slider connected to the hinge part of the door slides and moves in the outer diagonal direction of the vehicle body along the rails inside the case to secure the rotation trajectory of the door, and then the slide latch part configured in the hinge slider restrains the striker fixed to the case by the linked operation of the link arm connected to the door hinge bracket, thereby the slide movement position of the hinge slider is fixed, and then the opening/closing operation of the door is stably achieved.
Claims8
A door hinge device for a vehicle including
- a case installed on one side of a vehicle body corresponding to one end of a door in an outer diagonal direction toward the outside of the vehicle body, a rail configured in a length direction on upper and lower sides of the case, respectively, and a hinge slider connected through hinge shafts to a door hinge bracket fixed to the one end of the door in a slidably installed state along the rail inside the case, comprising:
- a striker installed on one side of the inside of the case;
- a slide latch part installed on one side of the hinge slider inside the case and constraining or releasing the striker through a claw lever and a pawl lever at a position where the hinge slider slides in the outer diagonal direction of the vehicle body;
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- a link arm having one end hingedly connected to the door hinge bracket and a pawl rod being guided along a guide hole formed in the hinge slider at an end of the link arm to act on the pawl lever.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.