Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Tanaka Instrument Co., Ltd.

Akira Inabayashi

Jun Watanabe

Harumi Ninomiya

A friction bearing structure for the adjustable support of a ventilator window shaft employed in an access door of an automotive vehicle, which comprises a base block having a rigid tongue member and a support hole, and a movable tongue member cooperative with the rigid tongue member. The rigid and movable tongue members have their respective surface area so shaped as to tightly contact the ventilator window shaft under friction so that, once the ventilator window is rotated to any desired position from a closed position, the ventilator window can be retained in position at such desired position. The structure further comprises a wedge member having a mounting hole through which an adjustment screw member loosely extend, and a pressure backing member for backing up a pressure exerted by the wedge member when the latter is held in position with the adjustment screw member being fastened into the support hole so that the pressure can be directed towards the movable tongue member.

Adjustable shaft bearing structure

A vehicle door lock operating mechanism wherein a reversible electric motor 6 drives a pivotally mounted sector gear 10 through a centrifugal clutch 7 and reduction gears 8, 9 and 32. The sector gear is coupled to the pivotal actuating lever 2 of a lock mechanism 1 by means (ex. slot 13 and guide pin 14) which permit the free travel or play of the actuating lever over a distance equal to its stroke between the locked and unlocked positions. A manual operating knob 3 is also coupled to the lever 2, and a spring 15 biases the sector gear 10 back into a neutral or middle position whenever the motor 6 is deenergized, whereby low force manual operation may be performed independently of the sector gear and reduction gears. The centrifugal clutch, when disengaged in response to the motor deenergization, enables the spring 15 to easily drive the sector gear back into its neutral position.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Akira Inabayashi