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US 4,648,208 AGranted
Door unit for motor vehicles
AssigneeBrose Fahreugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
InventorsHaimo Baldamus, Ferenc Szerdahelyi, Peter Hess, Manfred Bauer
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Abstract
An automobile door is proposed with a unit carrier on which built-in units, especially a complete window winder with window pane can be preassembled. Only afterwards on preassembly the unit carrier is brought together with the door's outer shell to form the door. Both door hinges as well as a door lock are secured on the unit carrier.
Claims29
A vehicle door comprising
- an outer shell,
- an inner panel,
- a unit carrier means mounted between the outer shell and inner panel and for reinforcing the door and for mounting a window winder means before the assembling of the door,
- a door reinforcing element between the outer shell and the inner panel for mounting door hinge parts and locks,
- one of window winding mechanism and linkage parts movably mounted to the unit carrier,
- wherein the unit carrier is equipped with at least one reinforcing tube, one end of said tube being developed as a base for a hinge and the other tube end of said tube being developed as a base for a lock.
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A vehicle door comprising
- an outer shell,
- an inner panel,
- a unit carrier means disposed between the outer shell and inner panel and for reinforcing the door and for mounting a window winder means before the assembling of the door,
- a door reinforcing element between the outer skin and the inner panel for mounting door hinge parts and locks,
- one of window winder means and linkage parts movably mounted to the unit carrier,
- wherein the unit carrier means is equipped with at least one reinforcing tube, one end of said tube being developed as a base for a hinge and the other tube end of said tube being developed as a base for a lock,
- one of a hinge base part and a lock base part is connected with a corresponding tube and is partially inserted into said tube end, and
- at least one of the inserted base parts, via supporting tabs is fastened at a box section of a door frame.
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A vehicle door comprising
- (a) an outer panel,
- (b) an inner panel,
- (c) a door frame,
- (d) a door reinforcing element provided with window-winder mounting means,
- (e) means for attaching said reinforcing element to said door frame,
- (f) means for attaching said outer and said inner panel to said frame with said door reinforcing element between said outer and inner panels,
- said door reinforcing element comprising two horizontally extending reinforcing tubes, one end of said tubes each being provided with a door hinge mounting means and the other end of at least the upper tube being provided with a door lock mounting means.
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A vehicle door comprising
- (a) an outer panel,
- (b) an inner panel provided with window-winder mounting means,
- (c) a door frame,
- (d) means for attaching said outer and said inner panel to said door frame,
- wherein said inner panel is provided with two horizontally extending reinforcing tubes, one end of said tubes each being provided with a door hinge mounting means and the other end of at least the upper tube being provided with a door lock mounting means.
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A vehicle door comprising
- (a) an outer panel,
- (b) an inner panel provided with window-winder mounting means,
- (c) means for attaching said outer panel to said inner panel,
- wherein said inner panel is provided with two horizontally extending reinforcing tubes, one end of said tubes each being provided with a door hinge mounting means and the other end of at least the upper tube being provided with a door lock mounting means.
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A vehicle door comprising
- (a) an outer panel,
- (b) an inner panel,
- (c) a door reinforcing element,
- (d) means for attaching said door reinforcing element to said inner panel,
- (e) means for attaching said outer panel to said inner panel with said door reinforcing element between said outer and inner panels,
- wherein said door reinforcing element consists of a horizontally elongated plate which at one longitudinal end is provided with door lock mounting means and at the other longitudinal broadened end is provided with mutually spaced door hinge mounting means which plate is further provided with a stamped receptacle to receive a window-winder drive motor for driving a support arm hinged on said door reinforcing element and with an elongated slit for displaceably guiding an end of an auxiliary arm hinged on said support arm, and wherein said plate is provided on its two longitudinal edges each with a U-profile rim strip.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.