US 2015/0322700 A1Published application

Fixing device for vehicle doors

AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsAkira MURAMATSU, Kosuke TSUKAMOTO

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Abstract

A fixing device for vehicle doors includes a door lock striker, a fixed shim, and a movable shim. The fixed shim has two inclined surfaces that are movable relative to the door lock striker and located on opposite sides of the door lock striker. The movable shim has two inclined surfaces arranged on opposite sides of the door lock striker and is urged such that each inclined surface is pushed against the corresponding inclined surface of the fixed shim. The door lock striker includes a leg portion. The movable shim includes two shim bodies forming the two inclined surfaces of the movable shim, and a connecting portion that connects the shim bodies at the rear end portions of the shim bodies, which are pressed towards the fixed shim and moved rearward. The connecting portion has an arched shape that protrudes in the protruding direction of the leg portion.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A fixing device for vehicle doors, comprising:

a door lock striker adapted to be arranged on a first panel that is one of a vehicle body panel and a door panel;
a fixed shim adapted to be fixed to a second panel that is the other one of the vehicle body panel and the door panel, wherein the fixed shim has two inclined surfaces that are movable relative to the door lock striker on opposite sides of the door lock striker;
and
a movable shim adapted to be arranged on the first panel, wherein the movable shim has two inclined surfaces arranged on opposite sides of the door lock striker, and the inclined surfaces are urged to be pressed against the inclined surfaces of the fixed shim, wherein
the door lock striker includes a leg portion projected from a panel surface of the first panel,
the movable shim includes two shim bodies configuring the two inclined surfaces of the movable shim and a connecting portion that connects the shim bodies together at rear end portions of the shim bodies that are pressed against the fixed shim and moved rearward, and
the connecting portion has an arched shape protruding in a direction in which the leg portion is projected.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/652,034Filed 6 Dec 2013
Priority: JP 2012-28021421 Dec 2012
Published: 12 Nov 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

E05B 85/045
Strikers: for bifurcated bolts
E05B 77/36
Vehicle locks characterised by special functions or purposes: noise prevention; Anti-rattling means
E05B 81/02
Power-actuated vehicle locks: characterised by the type of actuators used
E05B 81/18
Characterised by the function or purpose of the powered actuators: to effect movement of a bolt or bolts