Door hinge device for vehicles
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsHyungin Yun, Chungsik Yim
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Abstract
In a door hinge device for vehicles, in a vehicle without a B pillar, a hinge slider connected to a hinge portion of a door slidably moves in an external diagonal direction of a vehicle body along a rail in a case to secure a rotational trajectory of the door, and then a first striker configured in the hinge slider is restrained to a hinge latch unit fixed onto the rail inside the case in association with an action of a second striker provided at one side of the door to fix a slide movement location of the hinge slider, stably achieving an opening/closing operation of the door.
Claims11
A door hinge apparatus for vehicles including a case provided at one side of a vehicle body corresponding to one end portion of a door in a diagonal direction toward the outside of the vehicle body, rails provided at an upper side and a lower side in the case, respectively in a longitudinal direction, and a hinge slider provided to slidably move along the rails inside the case including an external case, and connected to a door hinge bracket fixed to the one end portion of the door, the door hinge apparatus comprising:
- a first striker provided at one side of the hinge slider inside the case;
- a second striker provided at one side of the door to correspond to an external surface of the external case;
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- a hinge latch unit including first and second claw levers provided on the rails through two lever shafts, and a pawl lever, and achieved so that the first claw lever restrains or releases the first striker while the second claw lever acts on the pawl lever by the second striker at a location at which the hinge slider slidably moves in an external diagonal direction of the vehicle body.
A door hinge apparatus for vehicles, the door hinge apparatus comprising:
- a case provided at one side of a vehicle body corresponding to one end portion of a door in a diagonal direction toward the outside of the vehicle body and including an internal case and an external case;
- rails provided at an upper side and a lower side in the case, respectively in a longitudinal direction;
- a hinge slider provided to slidably move along the rails inside the case, and connected to a door hinge bracket fixed to the one end portion of the door;
- a first striker provided at one side of the hinge slider inside the case;
- a second striker provided at one side of the door to correspond to an external surface of the external case;
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- a hinge latch unit including first and second claw levers provided on the rails through first and second lever shafts, and a pawl lever, and achieved so that the first claw lever restrains or releases the first striker while the second claw lever acts on the pawl lever by the second striker at a location at which the hinge slider slidably moves in an external diagonal direction of the vehicle body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.