Adjustable cursor for glass in a vehicle
AssigneeInteva Products, LLC
InventorsSantosh Ramesh, Karl-Heinz Kreher
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Abstract
A cursor assembly for a window regulator of a vehicle door, including: a main body portion; a clamping member secured to the main body portion; a cable securement feature that is moveably secured to the main body portion by an adjustment screw, wherein rotation of the adjustment screw about an axis will cause the cable securement feature to move along the axis with respect to the main body portion; and a gear train operably coupled to the adjustment screw.
Claims15
A cursor assembly for a window regulator of a vehicle door, comprising:
- a main body portion;
- a clamping member secured to the main body portion;
- a cable securement feature that is moveably secured to the main body portion by an adjustment screw, wherein rotation of the adjustment screw about an axis will cause the cable securement feature to move along the axis with respect to the main body portion;
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- a gear train operably coupled to the adjustment screw, the gear train having a spur gear, an idler gear and a gear, the gear is secured to the adjustment screw and the idler gear meshing with both the gear and the spur gear and the spur gear is secured to a drive member.
A window regulator, comprising:
- a pair of guide rails;
- a pair of cursor assemblies, one of the pair of cursor assemblies being secured to one of the pair of guide rails and the other one of the pair of cursor assemblies being secured to the other one of the pair of guide rails, each one of the pair of cursor assemblies comprising:
- a main body portion;
- a clamping member secured to the main body portion;
- a cable securement feature that is moveably secured to the main body portion by an adjustment screw, wherein rotation of the adjustment screw about an axis will cause the cable securement feature to move along the axis with respect to the main body portion;
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- a gear train operably coupled to the adjustment screw, the gear train having a spur gear, an idler gear and a gear, the gear is secured to the adjustment screw and the idler gear meshing with both the gear and the spur gear and the spur gear is secured to a drive member.
A method of adjusting a cursor assembly with respect to a guide rail of a window regulator, comprising:
- rotating an adjustment screw of the cursor assembly about an axis, wherein rotation of the adjustment screw about the axis will cause a cable securement feature to move along the axis with respect to a main body portion of the cursor assembly, the adjustment screw being operably coupled to a gear train, the gear train having a spur gear, an idler gear and a gear, the gear is secured to the adjustment screw and the idler gear meshing with both the gear and the spur gear and the spur gear is secured to a drive member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.