Door hinge
AssigneeEdscha AG
InventorLothar Brückner
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Abstract
A hinge for a motor vehicle door allows the door to be displaced with respect to a door pillar in a transverse movement combined with a pivoting movement by means of a four-joint mechanism that has a support arm and a control rod, both of which are hinged to the door and the door pillar. The support arm has a base support arm, at least one support arm element that can be detached from the base support arm and that has two hinge lugs supported on an extremity of the support arm, and means for interlinking the base support arm and the support arm element. The support arm element can be adjusted relative to the support arm through an axis that extends through the tangent plane of the base support arm and the support arm element by rotating them around a swiveling axis that is perpendicular to the tangent plane.
Claims11
A door coupling for a door of a vehicle, in which the door can be displaced with respect to a door pillar in a transverse movement combined with a pivoting movement by means of a four-joint mechanism,
- the four-joint mechanism comprising a supporting arm connected in an articulated manner to the door and in an articulated manner to the door pillar,
- the four-joint mechanism comprising a control rod connected in an articulated manner to the door and in an articulated manner to the door pillar,
- wherein the supporting arm is fastened in an articulated manner with regard to the door and pillar at, in each case, two gudgeons assigned to the end regions of the supporting arm,
- wherein the supporting arm comprises a base supporting arm, at least one supporting arm part which can be detached from said base supporting arm, and at least one fixing device for the mutual fastening of the base supporting arm and supporting arm part,
- wherein said at least one supporting arm part comprises the two gudgeons provided at one end of the supporting arm,
- wherein said base supporting arm and said supporting arm part define a tangent plane, and
- wherein the fixing device passing through the tangent plane allows adjustment of the supporting arm part with respect to the base supporting arm by mutual twisting around a pivot axis which is substantially perpendicular with respect to the tangent plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.