Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Door or window with specified vehicle feature
Patent
1989-01-09
1992-03-10
Focarino, Margaret A.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Door or window with specified vehicle feature
B60J 506
Patent
active
050945017
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a side door constructed as sliding door for passenger motor vehicles, according to the preamble of claim 1. In a side door of this type known from the DE-B 895 409, after the lowering of the window into the door body, the latter can be lowered together with the window into a receiving space underneath the vehicle seat arranged adjacent the sliding door. In the lowered position, the door body assumes an essentially horizontal position. For the guidance of the sliding door, two springily supported guide rollers with axes of rotation disposed perpendicular to the door wall are provided at the door body at each end, which protrude beyond the body ends and engage in guide rails at the fixed vehicle body. For the opening and closing of the sliding door, an electro-motorized drive is provided. However, also an emergency actuation by hand is possible. Both during electro-motorized actuation as also during an actuation by hand, the lowering of the door body always requires the preceding complete lowering of the window. During the closing of the side door, the window reversely can be lifted out of its lowered position only after the door body has been moved completely into its closing position. For the manual actuation, a handle and a foldable grip are arranged at the upper edge of the window. The known arrangement is costly and can be actuated manually only in a complicated manner.
Other sliding doors lowerable into the vehicle body are known from the DE-AS 20 18 319, FR-PS 961 405 and US-PS 26 51 541.
The invention is concerned with the task to create a side door of the aforementioned type which requires relatively little expenditure and can be actuated in an easy and simple manner.
The solution of this task is indicated in the characterizing part of the claim 1. It is achieved by the same with simple means that the lateral vehicle-longitudinal bearer (door sill beam) can serve for receiving the side door in the lowered position. With an opened side door, an ingress opening is present the height of which amounts to about two-thirds of the dimension from the door sill beam lower edge to the roof frame. This is an acceptable value for sporty vehicles. For vehicles with an open body, the side door according to the invention is particularly advantageous. It can be stored in a simple manner not only in the open condition but enables a simple and fast opening and closing by reason of the far-reaching maintenance of its vertical arrangement.
Embodiments of the invention are characterized in the dependent claims. Advantages, which are connected therewith, follow from the following description.
Embodiments of the invention are schematically illustrated in the drawing, and more particularly there is shown
FIG. 1 a first side door both in the closed as also in the opened condition in perspective view,
FIG. 2 the sliding door according to FIG. 1 in a vertical cross section,
FIGS. 3 and 4 each a horizontal cross section through the guidances of the sliding door according to FIG. 1,
FIG. 5 a second sliding door both in the closed as also in the opened condition in perspective view,
FIG. 6 a third sliding door in the closed condition in perspective view,
FIG. 7 the sliding door according to FIG. 6 both in the closed as also in the opened condition in perspective view,
FIG. 8 a fourth sliding door with opened window in perspective view,
FIG. 9 the sliding door according to FIG. 8 in the opened condition in perspective view,
FIG. 10 a fifth sliding door both in the closed as also in the opened condition in perspective view,
FIG. 11 a sixth sliding door in the closed condition in perspective view and
FIG. 12 a seventh sliding door in the closed condition in perspective view.
In the embodiment according to FIGS. 1 to 4, a receiving space 2 open in the upward direction is provided in the left longitudinal bearer 1 (door sill beam) of a sporty two-seater passenger motor vehicle with open body not further illustrated. The entire door body 3 of the sliding door 4 arranged above the longitudinal bearer 1 and cons
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Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
Focarino Margaret A.
Hoge Gary C.
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