Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Door or window with specified vehicle feature
Patent
1980-11-12
1982-08-31
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Door or window with specified vehicle feature
160118, 160188, 160199, 160206, 160213, 49340, B60J 506
Patent
active
043469310
ABSTRACT:
A bifold door assembly for an access port in a vehicle having a non-linear side wall. The assembly includes a pair of bifold doors, each having a planar outer panel disposed in a plane between an upper overhang and lower stepwell which extend outwardly of the vehicle side wall. The proximate edges of the outer panels seal to each other at the center of the access port and the distal edge of each is pivoted to a coplanar outer portion of a side panel. Each side panel has an inner planar portion pivotally attached to the vehicle interior and an intermediate portion of arcuate cross-section which runs from the outer portion to the inner portion closely past a respective side wall of the access port and in engagement with a seal. The outer panel is guided by a guide track on the overhang and a door operator pivots each side panel to fold the outer panel toward the side panel and inwardly of the access port.
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General Motors Corporation
Griffin Patrick M.
Song Robert R.
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