Door hinge assembly with integrated door lock for a motor vehicle door
AssigneeEd. Scharwachter GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsBernd-Alfred Klüting, Andreas Bonné, Friedrich G. Klingelhöfer
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Abstract
A door hinge assembly for a motor vehicle door and including a door hinge having two hinge halves attachable, respectively, to the motor vehicle door and a respective motor vehicle door pillar, and a hinge pin for connecting the two hinge halves and supported in one of the hinge halves with a running fit and removably secured in another of the two hinge halves without a possibility of rotation with respect to the another half; and a door lock formed integrally with the door hinge and including a locking element having at least one detent point and at least one brake and locking member cooperating with the locking element and located radially outwardly of the hinge pin.
Claims13
A door hinge assembly for a motor vehicle door, comprising:
- a door hinge having first and second hinge halves attachable, respectively, to the motor vehicle door and a respective motor vehicle door pillar, and a hinge pin for connecting the first and second hinge halves and supported in one of the first and second hinge halves with a running fit and removably secured in another of the first and second halves without a possibility of rotation with respect to the another of the first and second halves;
- and a door lock formed integrally with the door hinge, said door lock comprising:
- a locking element, said locking element having at least one detent point, said locking element being formed as a circular track concentric with respect to a hinge pin axis, and said locking element being secured to the one of the first and second hinge halves without a possibility of rotation relative to the one of the first and second hinge halves,
- a ring-shaped carrier, said carrier being connected with said hinge pin for joint rotation therewith, and
- at least one brake and locking member, said brake and locking member being received in said ring-shaped carrier, said brake and locking member thereby being connected with and being arranged radially outwardly of said hinge pin, and said brake and locking member being formed as a roll body,
- an axle, said axle rotatably supporting said brake and locking member in said carrier and said axle extending transversely to the hinge pin axis,
- wherein said brake and locking member cooperate with said locking element for locking the door in a predetermined opening position of the door by axially displacing said carrier, and
- wherein said opening position is determined by said detent point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.