Machine element or mechanism – Mechanical movements – Reciprocating or oscillating to or from alternating rotary
Reexamination Certificate
2008-07-02
2011-12-27
Addie, Raymond (Department: 3671)
Machine element or mechanism
Mechanical movements
Reciprocating or oscillating to or from alternating rotary
Reexamination Certificate
active
08082812
ABSTRACT:
A closure system for a motor vehicle includes a pinion and a pair of U-shaped, flat sliders. The pinion is engaged to a drive shaft to rotate in a first rotational direction and an opposite second rotational direction in response to the drive shaft rotating. Each slider has an inner leg and an outer leg connected at one end to a bridge. The inner surface of each inner leg includes a gear rack. The inner surfaces of the inner legs face one another and surround opposite sides of the pinion such that corresponding portions of the gear racks engage the respective opposite sides of the pinion whereby the sliders are longitudinally displaced away from one another in response to the pinion rotating in the first rotational direction and are longitudinally displaced toward one another in response to the pinion rotating in the second rotational direction.
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Addie Raymond
Brooks & Kushman P.C.
Magna Car Top Systems GmbH
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