Door hinge device for vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorHyungin YUN
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Abstract
A door hinge device for a vehicle is capable of facilitating two doors to be simultaneously or independently opened or closed in a state in which rotation trajectories of the doors are ensured as a hinge bar connected to a carrier of a speed reduction unit through a hinge shaft and a rack and a pinion connected to a rotation shaft of a sun gear set a rotation amount of the doors during a process in which a hinge unit of the door moves along a rail in a diagonal direction toward the outside of a vehicle body in a vehicle including no B pillar.
Claims16
A door hinge apparatus for a vehicle, the door hinge apparatus comprising:
- a rail bracket provided at one side of a vehicle body corresponding to one end portion of a door and including a rail formed to be directed toward the outside of the vehicle body;
- a roller block configured to support a rotation of a roller rollably supported on the rail on the rail bracket;
- a hinge shaft connected to the one end portion of the door;
- a rotation shaft connected to the one end portion of the door;
- a rack fixed to the rail bracket;
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- a pinion engaged to the rack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.