Door step device for vehicle
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorsDong Eun Cha, Hyun Gyung Kim, Seung Mok Lee, Phil Jung Jeong
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Abstract
A door step device for a vehicle includes: a step panel; a rack gear part which extends from the step panel and has a locking groove formed at a side thereof; a pinion gear part which gear-meshed with the rack gear part, and rotates by power from a driving motor; a tilting operation part including a projection pin and a solenoid adjusting a projected amount of the projection pin; and a control unit which controls the driving motor at the time of the operation of the step panel to draw the rack gear part and controls the solenoid to tilt the rack gear part and the step panel to the ground.
Claims9
A door step device for a vehicle, comprising:
- a step panel;
- a rack gear part extending from the step panel to be inserted into the vehicle and having a locking groove formed at a side thereof;
- a pinion gear part mounted on the vehicle through a rotating shaft, and gear-meshed with the rack gear part, wherein the pinion gear part rotates by power from a driving motor;
- a tilting operation part including a projection pin projecting at a point spaced a predetermined distance rearward of the pinion gear part in the vehicle to be locked to the locking groove of the rack gear part to provide a rotating center of the rack gear part, the tilting operation part further including a solenoid adjusting a projected amount of the projection pin;
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- a control unit which controls the driving motor to draw the rack gear part and controls the solenoid to project the projection pin into the locking groove of the drawn rack gear part, thus enabling the rack gear part and the step panel to be tilted about the projection pin toward a ground.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.