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US 4,974,365 AGranted
Automotive door structure
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorJun Ono
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Abstract
An automotive door structure includes a door panel assembly of resin, a lifting/lowering device for lifting and lowering a door glass sheet, the lifting/lowering device being disposed in the door panel assembly, and a door frame of a rigid material disposed in the door panel assembly and supporting the door glass sheet and the lifting/lowering device.
Claims9
A door structure for an automobile having an automobile body, comprising:
- a door panel assembly of resin adapted to be openably and closably mounted on the automobile body;
- a door glass sheet vertically movably disposed in said door panel assembly;
- a lifting/lowering device for lifting and lowering said door glass sheet, said lifting/lowering device being disposed in said door panel assembly;
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- a door frame of a rigid material disposed in said door panel assembly and supporting said door glass sheet and said lifting/lowering device;
- a door lock mechanism for locking said door panel assembly on the automobile body, wherein
- said door frame comprises a vertical frame having door hinges, a horizontal frame connecting said vertical frame to said door lock mechanism, and a guide member for guiding said door glass sheet as it is lifted or lowered, said guide member extending between said vertical frame and said horizontal frame.
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A door structure for an automobile having an automobile body, comprising:
- a door panel assembly of resin adapted to be openably and closably mounted on the automobile body;
- a door glass sheet vertically movably disposed in said door panel assembly;
- a lifting/lowering device for lifting and lowering said door glass sheet, said lifting/lowering device being disposed in said door panel assembly;
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- a door frame of a rigid material disposed in said door panel assembly and supporting said door glass sheet and said lifting/lowering device;
- door hinges by which said door panel assembly is adapted to be openably and closably mounted on the automobile body, and a door checker mechanism for holding said door panel assembly at a predetermined open position, wherein
- said door checker mechanism comprises:
- a cam member fixed to said door panel assembly or adapted to be mounted on the automobile body, and having a cam surface;
- an engaging member adapted to be mounted on the automobile body or fixed to said door panel assembly, and engaging said cam surface of said cam member;
- urging means for normally urging said engaging member toward said cam surface;
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- wherein said cam surface, said engaging member, and said urging means are disposed coaxially with said door hinges.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.