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US 12,173,539 B2Granted
Door hinge device for vehicles
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorJaeseung Lee
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Abstract
A door hinge apparatus of a vehicle may include a slide unit including a slide body and a main slider where the slide body is provided on one side of a vehicle body corresponding to an end portion of a door in the vehicle and the main slider is movable in a width direction of the vehicle with respect to the slide body, and a door hinge bracket engaged with the end portion of the door and operably coupled to the main slider.
Claims17
A door hinge apparatus of a vehicle, the door hinge apparatus comprising:
- a slide unit including a slide body and a main slider, wherein the slide body is provided on one side of a vehicle body corresponding to an end portion of a door in the vehicle and the main slider is movable in a width direction of the vehicle with respect to the slide body;
- a door hinge bracket engaged with the end portion of the door and operably coupled to the main slider;
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- a 2-stage hinge slider configured to be movable in the width direction of the vehicle and also toward a vehicle rear side simultaneously according to a preset radius by corresponding bridges rotatable in an upper slide groove and a lower slide groove formed in the main slider,
- wherein the door hinge bracket is pivotally connected to the 2-stage hinge slider through a hinge shaft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.