Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Door or window with specified vehicle feature
Patent
1996-06-10
1999-12-28
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Door or window with specified vehicle feature
296 9722, 292DIG46, B62D 2500, B60J 506
Patent
active
060071419
ABSTRACT:
A blocker member is mounted on the vehicle body adjacent the floor mounted door track and includes a housing and a blocker lever which is pivotally mounted on the housing. The blocker lever is operably connected to the fuel filler door by a cable. When the fuel filler door is opened, the cable is tensioned and pivots the blocker lever to an extended position in which the blocker lever extends into the path of sliding movement the door. Thus, whenever the fuel filler door is open, the sliding door is blocked from sliding open into engagement with the fuel filler door. The blocker member preferably includes a resilient bumper against which the blocker lever seats in order to absorb energy when the door is slid into engagement with the blocker lever. The cable is preferably connected to the blocker by an actuator lever and spring arrangement by which the cable and actuator lever have a range of movement beyond the movement of the blocker lever so as to accommodate any misadjustment of the cable connecting the fuel filler and the blocker member.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4620744 (1986-11-01), Yui et al.
patent: 5454618 (1995-10-01), Sullivan
patent: 5538312 (1996-07-01), Lehmkuhl
Chang Houng Yue
Thomas Bob
General Motors Corporation
Leahy Charles E.
Pape Joseph D.
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