Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Bert R Wanlass

James R Drouillard

Edmund F Sarosy

Anthony March

Thomas J Goike

Joseph E Gammie

Thomas A Grace

A fuel tank filler door mounts a striker which is engageable by a latch member of a lock on the body to lock the filler door against movement to open position. The lock is released by a shiftable cable controlled by a power actuator or a mechanical actuator within the vehicle trunk.

Vehicle body closure arrangement

A carrier member mounted on a door window is positioned between the first and second opposed facing spaced apart legs of a door mounted track. The carrier member has an axially extending cylindrical bore communicating between the track legs. First and second bearing balls are mounted within the cylindrical bore and roll against one another and respectively against the first and second track legs to provide low friction precision guided movement of the window between the open and closed positions. Tracks are preferably provided at both the front and rear of the window. One of the tracks extends vertically through the window opening. First and second carrier members and associated rolling balls are mounted on the window in vertically spaced relation and roll along semi-cylindrical grooves extending vertically along the track legs to define the path of rolling movement and support the window against pitching movement and against fore and aft movement relative the door.

Window guidance arrangement

A controlled bi-directional electric motor is energized for armature rotation in respective opposite directions in response to the operation of an electrical control switching arrangement electrically open and electrically closed. A mechanically operable electrical switching device arranged to be operated by a mechanical movable member that is driven between first and second travel limits by the controlled motor is effective, when the movable member is driven by the motor to either travel limit, to interrupt motor energization and to condition the circuit for effecting motor energization for armature rotation in the direction to drive the movable member toward the other travel limit.

Bi-directional electric motor control circuit

A rotary switch comprising a housing, a cover, three stationary contacts, a rotor, an O-ring seal, and a combination sealing and driving member. The switch is mounted on the end of a door lock cylinder assembly of a vehicle and is connected with the vehicle anti-theft system so that insertion of a key into the lock cylinder and rotation of the key in one direction arms the alarm system through the switch while rotation in the opposite direction disarms the system. The switch is entirely self-contained and weatherproof.

Rotary electric switch

A door lock actuator for locking and unlocking a vehicle door includes a rack and pinion drive assembly which is laterally movable to move the door lock control member between locking and unlocking positions as driven by a passenger controlled permanent magnet electric motor.

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Warren, MI, United States of America

Bert R Wanlass