Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Patent
1990-07-26
1991-05-07
Focarino, Margaret A.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
B60J 504
Patent
active
050130820
ABSTRACT:
A motor vehicle has a door opening adjacent an occupant seat and a cowl structure extending transversely across the vehicle body forward of a windshield opening. A door provided for closing the door opening is mounted on a door support arm having an inboard end pivotally mounted on the cowl structure and an outboard end connected to the door so that pivotal movement of the support arm bodily swings the door vertically between a lowered closed position and a raised open position. The support arm is preferably mounted on the vehicle cowl structure by a pivot located closely adjacent the center line of the vehicle body and the support arm is configured to fit flush with the surface of the cowl structure and hood of the vehicle body. A guide link extends generally parallel with the support link and has an inboard end pivotally mounted on the cowl structure and an outboard end pivotally mounted on the door so that the guide link controls the pivotal movement of the door in relation to the outboard end of the support arm.
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Focarino Margaret A.
General Motors Corporation
Hoge Gary C.
Leahy Charles E.
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