US 2019/0194996 A1Published application

Flap assembly for a vehicle

AssigneeStabilus GmbH

InventorsGerd MÜLHÖFER, Dirk RENNECKE

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Abstract

A flap assembly for a vehicle includes a flap, which by way of a linear actuator drive is pivotably drivable about a pivot axis counter to the gravity of the flap from a closed position to an opened position. The flap assembly includes a spring assembly that acts in a supporting manner on the flap. The actuator drive has an actuator housing that has one end articulated on a component of the body of the vehicle, and an actuator rod being deployable from the other end of the housing. An external end of said actuator rod is articulated on the flap at a radial spacing from the pivot axis. The spring assembly is releasably disposed on the flap-side end region of the housing of the actuator drive and has a compression spring supported on the actuator housing and the flap at an initial opening angle of the flap <10°. In the closed position of the flap, the spring is pretensioned by the flap.

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Dependent claims

A flap assembly for a vehicle, comprising:

a linear actuator drive having an actuator housing with a first housing end articulated on a component of a body of the vehicle, and an actuator rod extending from a second end of the actuator housing, the second end opposing the first end;
a flap pivotably drivable about a pivot axis from a closed position to an opened position by said linear actuator, wherein an external end of the actuator rod is articulated on the flap at a radial spacing from said pivot axis;
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a spring assembly releasably disposed on the actuator housing at the second end of the housing, the spring assembly having a compression spring with a first end and a second end, the first end of the compression spring is supported on the housing and the second end of the compression spring acts on the flap when the flap is between the closed position and an initial opening angle of the flap of <10°, the compression spring being pretensioned by the flap when the flap is in the closed position.

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