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US 4,908,908 AGranted
Back door hinge mounting structure
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshihiro Mitsuoka, Tsutomu Iwasaki, Yoshihisa Kurokawa
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Abstract
A back door hinge mounting structure comprising a pair of bolts connected with to each other at the central portion thereof and threaded at the opposed ends thereof, one end of the opposed ends connected to the roof panel with the other of the opposed ends to the fixed leaf of the back door hinge and a hinge cap for covering the mounting bolts which can be mounted and removed only when the back door is open, so that access to the mounting bolts with the back door closed is avoided.
Claims5
A hinge mounting assembly for removably connecting a vehicle back door to a vehicle body, comprising:
- a door hinge means connected to the vehicle back door for opening and closing the back door;
- a pair of mounting bolt means, each having opposed threaded ends for connecting the door hinge means with the vehicle body;
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- means for preventing the door hinge means from directly contacting the vehicle body, which comprise a flat retainer plate having two sides, wherein each of the opposed threaded ends of the mounting bolt means project from the two sides of the flat retainer plate, one end of the opposed threaded ends being connected to the vehicle body with a first nut and the other end of the opposed threaded end being connected to the door hinge means with a second nut.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.