Sliding door for a vehicle
AssigneeDura Automotive Body & Glass Systems GmbH
InventorsGerhard Heuel, Michael Krehmke, Ralf Rottmann
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Abstract
A sliding door for a vehicle includes a guide rail, a sliding carriage and a guide pin (34). The sliding carriage is longitudinally displaceably journalled at the guide rail and is connected by a multijoint to the vehicle body. The guide pin (34) is guided in a guide track (41) provided at the sliding door. To improve such a sliding door, the guide track (41) includes a first guide track (42) and a second guide track (43) which is elastically biased (47) with respect to the first guide track (42) (FIG. 4).
Claims20
A sliding door (1) for a vehicle comprising a guide rail (5), having a sliding carriage (6) which is longitudinally displaceably supported on the guide rail (5) and connected by a multijoint (7, 11, 6, 4) to the vehicle body and having a guide pin (34) which is guided in a guide track assembly (41) provided on the sliding door (1), wherein
- the guide track (41) includes a first guide track (42) and a second guide track (43) arranged for guiding the guide pin (34) therebetween along lengths thereof by contacting opposite sides of the guide pin (34), with the first and second guide tracks (42, 43) disposed at different heights and the second guide track (43) being elastically biased (47) with respect to the first guide track (42).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.