US 6,425,208 B1Granted

Vehicle window track adjustments in the vertical and transverse direction

AssigneeDaimlerChrysler AG

InventorsHerbert D Klueger, Martin J Bates, Allen G Hicks

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Abstract

A guide track for the window of a vehicle door can be adjusted vertically to adjust the location of a window stop on the upper end of the track to ensure a water-tight fit of the window upper edge and a weather-strip carried by the vehicle roof structure. Adjustment of the stop involves vertical movement of the track, up or down, preferably by loosening and tightening a track clamping-structure located at the lower end of the track. Access to the track clamping structure can be had through a small access opening formed in a trim panel on the interior surface of the door. Track adjustment can be achieved without removing the trim panel from the door. In preferred practice of the invention, the track clamping structure includes a threaded rod disposed between the track and a window support panel to swing the lower end of the track for changing the movement path of the window.

Claims4

Dependent claims

In a vehicle door having a window movable between a lowered position and a raised position, the improvement comprising:

a generally vertically oriented, planar window support panel located within the vehicle door;
a window guide track generally vertically disposed within the door between said support panel and said window;
said track having an upper end and a lower end;
a stop located at the upper end of said track for limiting upward movement of the window;
a trim panel carried by the door so as to conceal the window support panel;
said trim panel having an access opening aligned with the lower end of said track;
a first vertically oriented slide connection slidably connecting the upper end of said track to said window support panel;
a second slide connection slidably connecting the lower end of said track to said window support panel;
said second slide connection comprising a vertical slot in said support panel and a rod extending through said slot so as to be accessible through said access opening, a disk disposed around said rod between said track and said support panel, a nut threadably engaged with said rod between said support panel and said trim panel, said nut and said disk releasably clamping said rod to said support panel, said nut being accessible through said access opening, said rod being slidably engaged in said slot to vertically adjust said track with respect to said support panel and being threadably connected to said track to move the lower end of the track one of toward and away from said support panel to thereby pivotally adjust said track about said first slide connection.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.