US 6,615,546 B2Granted

Automotive door construction

AssigneeKasai Kogyo Co., Ltd.

InventorsJunichi Furuyama, Masayuki Saito

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Abstract

A door trim 50 is made up of two divided trims of an upper trim 51 and a lower trim 52. A door elevating mechanism 27 composed of a guide rail 28, a motor 30, a step lamp 57, a speaker grille 56, are subassembled to the lower trim 52. In particular, the motor 30 is mounted on an extended attachment element 67 formed by extending the upper part of a pocket back cover 6 constituting a pocket 47 of the lower trim 52. The lower trim 52 configured in this manner is mounted to an inner panel 21. After a door glass 26 is installed to the door elevating mechanism 27, the upper trim 51 is mounted to the inner panel 21. Therefore, even if the area of an opening in the inner panel is not increased so much, the installation work of the door glass can be done easily, and a demand for increased size of the door glass can be met.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An automotive door construction for a vehicle configured so that a door space is formed by joining outer edges of an outer panel and an inner panel, and the inner panel side of said door space is covered with a door trim, wherein

said door trim is made up of two divided trims of an upper trim and a lower trim, said lower trim being an innermost trim with respect to the vehicle;
at least a glass elevating mechanism is installed on the side of said lower trim so as to facilitate positioning of said glass elevating mechanism on said inner panel by positioning said lower trim piece on said inner panel;
the upper and lower end portions of a guide rail constituting said glass elevating mechanism project from the upper and lower end side of said lower trim;
said guide rail and said lower trim are mounted to said inner panel such that said guide rail is connected to said inner panel in a state of being disposed in said door space so as to lie across an opening, which is formed in the central portion of said inner panel and is open to said door space;
and
said upper trim is mounted to an upper portion of said inner panel,
wherein said opening includes an upper portion and a lower portion with respect to a floor of the vehicle, said upper trim covering said upper portion of said opening and said lower trim covering said lower portion of said opening.

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Facts

Application: 09/801,056Filed 8 Mar 2001
Priority: JP 2000-09833631 Mar 2000
Published: US 2001/0025456 A14 Oct 2001
Granted: 9 Sep 2003
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

B60J 5/0416
Lower door structure: assembly panels to be installed in doors as a module with components, e.g. lock or window lifter, attached thereto
B60R 13/02
Elements for body-finishing, identifying, or decorating; Arrangements or adaptations for advertising purposes: internal Trim mouldings ; Internal…
B60R 13/0206
Internal Trim mouldings ; Internal Ledges; Wall liners for passenger compartments; Roof liners: arrangements of fasteners and clips specially…
E05F 15/689
For vertically-sliding wings: specially adapted for vehicle windows