Pivoting cursor for frameless glass in a vehicle
AssigneeInteva Products, LLC
InventorsGeoffrey Barr, Sadmira Beganovic, Bruce Rokicki
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Abstract
A pivoting cursor for a frameless window of a vehicle door, including: a main body portion; a pivoting plate pivotally secured to the main body portion for pivotal movement about an axis; a glass clamping plate; a seal; an adjusting screw for pivoting the pivoting plate with respect to the main body portion, the adjusting screw having a first threaded portion for threadingly engaging an opening in the main body portion; and a locking nut for threadingly engaging a second threaded portion of the adjusting screw, wherein the locking nut is located on an inboard side of the pivoting cursor.
Claims16
A pivoting cursor for a frameless window of a vehicle door, comprising:
- a main body portion;
- a pivoting plate pivotally secured to the main body portion for pivotal movement about an axis;
- a glass clamping plate;
- a seal;
- an adjusting screw for pivoting the pivoting plate with respect to the main body portion, the adjusting screw having a first threaded portion for threadingly engaging an opening in the main body portion, wherein the adjusting screw passes through an opening in the glass clamping plate and an opening in the pivoting plate and the adjusting screw does not threadingly engage the opening in the glass clamping plate and the opening in the pivoting plate;
- a locking nut for threadingly engaging a second threaded portion of the adjusting screw, wherein the locking nut is located on an inboard side of the pivoting cursor;
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- a glass clamp screw secures the frameless window to the pivoting cursor by threadingly engaging a threaded opening in the pivoting plate.
A door module, comprising:
- a window regulator secured to an inner door panel of the door module, the window regulator including a pair of guide rails fixedly secured to the inner door panel of the door module;
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- a pivoting cursor for slidably engaging one of the pair of guide rails, the pivoting cursor comprising:
- a main body portion;
- a pivoting plate pivotally secured to the main body portion for pivotal movement about an axis;
- a glass clamping plate;
- a seal;
- an adjusting screw for pivoting the pivoting plate with respect to the main body portion, the adjusting screw having a first threaded portion for threadingly engaging an opening in the main body portion;
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- a locking nut for threadingly engaging a second threaded portion of the adjusting screw, wherein the locking nut is located on an inboard side of the pivoting cursor when the window regulator is secured to the door module, wherein the adjusting screw includes a flange portion that is larger than an opening in the glass clamping plate that the adjusting screw slidably passes through and the flange portion is received in an opening of the pivoting plate.
A method of mounting a frameless window of a vehicle to a door module, comprising:
- securing a portion of the frameless window to a pivoting cursor slidably engaging one of a pair of guide rails of a window regulator secured to the door module;
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- adjusting a location of the frameless window by pivoting a pivoting plate of the pivoting cursor with respect to a main body portion of the pivoting cursor, the pivoting cursor further comprising an adjusting screw for pivoting the pivoting plate with respect to the main body portion, the adjusting screw having a first threaded portion for threadingly engaging an opening in the main body portion;
- and a locking nut for threadingly engaging a second threaded portion of the adjusting screw, wherein the locking nut is located on an inboard side of the pivoting cursor when the window regulator is secured to the door module and the adjusting screw includes a flange portion that is larger than an opening in a clamping plate that the adjusting screw slidably passes through and the flange portion is received in an opening of the pivoting plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.