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US 4,069,617 AGranted
Vehicle window guide assembly
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorSyouichi Koike
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Abstract
Two or more guide following members fastened to a vehicle body window panel each comprises a plurality of projected slide surfaces in constant sliding engagement with the inner wall of a vertically elongate guide channel mounted on a vehicle body. The window panel is connected to the guide following member by means of a shaft carrying a ball joint.
Claims4
The combination of a vehicle body window pane and a window guide assembly for guiding movement of the vehicle body window pane between a raised, closed position and a lowered, open position comprising:
- an elongated guide channel element extending substantially in the direction of the raising and lowering movement of the window pane and having a top base wall, two side walls and a bottom base wall with an opening,
- at least one substantially tapezoidal, resilient guide following element slidably reciprocably received within said guide channel and having a slide surface facing the top base wall of said guide channel,
- a resilient damping block embedded in said slide surface of the guide following element and being in constant engagement with the top base wall, said damping block being of higher resiliency than that of the guide following element,
- a shaft element having two ends, one of said ends being fastened to said window pane,
- ball joint means provided at the other of said ends of the shaft element, and
- socket means provided substantially at the center portion of the guide following element for detachably receiving said ball joint to thereby establish a ball joint connection between the shaft element and said guide following element.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.