Spring-loaded hinge assembly for vehicle accessories

Details Spring-loaded hinge assembly for vehicle accessories Spring-loaded hinge assembly for vehicle accessories

1989-12-28

1991-06-11

Song, Robert R.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Glare screen or visor

16267, 16341, B60J 300

Patent

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RE0336106

ABSTRACT:
A hinge assembly is disclosed which is particularly well suited for vehicle accessory applications, such as for pivotally interconnecting vanity doors with vanity housing structures for example. The hinge assembly, which is also applicable for other applications, includes a pivot pivotally interconnecting first and second members for relative rotational movement about a longitudinal axis, with a cam on the first member protruding in a generally lateral direction to engage a resilient biasing springs on the second member. The resilient biasing springs, which is preferably a leaf spring, is slidably engaged and resiliently deflected by the cam on the first member and exerts a resilient biasing force on the cam in a generally lateral direction, generally toward the pivot axis. The cam preferably includes one or more dwell portions such that the spring or other resilient biasing springs tends to resiliently and releasably maintain the first and second members in one or more predetermined relative rotational orientations when engaged by the dwell portions on the cam.

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