US 2003/0146644 A1Published application

Automatically opening and closing system for vehicle

AssigneeMitsuba Corporation

InventorsHiroshi Sakai, Yasushi Yoshida, Takashi Hoshino, Seiji Shioiri, Takao Ochiai, Hideyuki Ogawa

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Abstract

An appearance of a vehicle is improved by reducing an opening formed in an interior trim for vehicle. An actuator unit is mounted in a pillar of the vehicle, and a linking rod is linked to a rack bar, which linearly reciprocates along an axial direction provided at this actuator unit. This linking rod protrudes from the pillar through the opening formed in an interior trim, and the other end thereof is linked to a back door. Moreover, this actuator unit is disposed so that a moving direction of the rack bar inclines on a vehicle-rear side by an opening/closing inclination angle α with respect to a direction perpendicular to the vehicle and inclines inward in a vehicle-width direction by a width inclination angle.

Claims18

Dependent claims

An automatically opening and closing system for vehicle, which automatically opens and closes an opening/closing member openably and closably mounted on a vehicle through a hinge, the system comprising:

a linking rod to which a tip side joint is swingably linked in said opening/closing member away from an opening/closing central axis of said hinge;
a reciprocating member to which a base side joint of said linking rod is swingably linked and which is movably provided to said vehicle in an opening/closing inclination direction so that as said opening/closing member moves from a fully opened state to a fully closed state, said base side joint is separated to an opening/closing direction with respect to said opening/closing member;
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a driving means for opening and closing said opening/closing member by linearly reciprocating said reciprocating member in said opening/closing inclination direction.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.