Door opening preventing apparatus for a vehicle
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorJin Woo Nam
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Abstract
A door opening preventing apparatus for a vehicle includes an outer door handle mounted on an outer surface of a door panel, a door opening lever mounted on an interior of the door panel to angularly rotate and interlocking with the outer door handle when the outer door handle is opened, and a latch cable connected to the door opening lever, wherein a separate balance weight is disposed at an upper end of the door opening lever to contact the door opening lever, and the door opening lever is pushed by the balance weight outward due to a forward inertial force during a side collision of a vehicle, and only the balance weight is angularly rotated inward by a reverse inertial force.
Claims4
A door opening preventing apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- an outer door handle mounted on an outer surface of a door panel;
- a door opening lever mounted on an interior of the door panel to angularly rotate, and interlocking with the outer door handle when the outer door handle is pulled;
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- a latch cable connected to the door opening lever,
- wherein a separate balance weight is disposed at an upper end of the door opening lever to contact the door opening lever, and the door opening lever is pushed by the balance weight outward due to a forward inertial force during a side collision of the vehicle, and only the balance weight is angularly rotated inward by a reverse inertial force, and
- wherein an upper end of the balance weight has a small diameter portion mounted on an inner frame of a door panel to be rotated by a rotary shaft, and a lower end of the balance weight has a large diameter portion contacting an inner surface of the upper end of the door opening lever.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.