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US 12,558,945 B2Granted
Vehicle door device
AssigneeAisin Corporation
InventorsSho Kume, Masato Kumano
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Abstract
A vehicle door device includes first and second link arms having a first rotary coupling point with respect to a vehicle body and a second rotary coupling point with respect to a front door of a vehicle. The front door is opened toward a vehicle front side based on an operation of a link mechanism formed of the first and second link arms. The first link arm has the first rotary coupling point inside a dash panel provided at a front portion of a vehicle interior.
Claims10
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body;
- a vehicle interior;
- a front door;
- a dash panel;
- and
- a vehicle door device for opening and closing the front door, the vehicle door device comprising:
- first and second link arms each having a first rotary coupling point with respect to the vehicle body and each having a second rotary coupling point with respect to the front door, the first link arm and the second link arm being independent physically separate from each other, and the first link arm being disposed above the second link arm, wherein
- the front door is opened toward a vehicle front side based on an operation of a link mechanism formed of the first and second link arms,
- the first link arm has the first rotary coupling point inside the dash panel provided at a front portion of the vehicle interior,
- in a fully open position of the front door, the second rotary coupling point is forward of the first rotary coupling point in a front-rear direction of the vehicle for each of the first and second link arms, and
- the second rotary coupling point of the first link arm is closer to a center of gravity of the front door than the second rotary coupling point of the second link arm, and
- the first rotary coupling point of the first link arm is formed by a base end portion of the first link arm and a coupling bracket, the coupling bracket being disposed inside the dash panel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.