Track arrangement for vehicle sliding door

Details Track arrangement for vehicle sliding door Track arrangement for vehicle sliding door

1996-08-19

1999-04-27

Nelson, Jr., Milton

Movable or removable closures

Mounted for multidirectional or oblique movement

Initial or terminal movement transverse to sliding movement...

49223, 296155, E05D 1510

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058967044

ABSTRACT:
An arrangement for mounting a sliding door to a vehicle body for movement between an open position and a closed position. The arrangement includes a guide track mounted to the sliding door, a carriage support arrangement carried by the sliding door and a swing arm. The swing arm is connected to the carriage for pivotal movement about a first axis and to the body for pivotal movement about a second axis. With the sliding door unlatched, the swing-arm rotates the carriage support arrangement and the sliding door through an obtuse swing angle, thereby reducing longitudinal tipping forces on the sliding door. Further, when the swing-arm and sliding door are in the full-open position, the sliding door's center of gravity is only slightly offset aft of the carriage support arrangement, thereby reducing the force needed to remove the swing-arm, carriage support arrangement and vehicle sliding door to a fully-closed position.

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