Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Gary Eugene Heldt

Tadeusz Joseph Siedlecki

Ryan Spencer Marshall

David Rush

A door assembly for closing a door opening in a side of a body of a pick-up truck includes a rocker at a bottom portion of the door opening and a roof rail at a top portion of the door opening. The door assembly also includes a first door and second door pivotally connected to the body and joined pillarlessly between an open and closed position. The door assembly further includes a vertical reinforcement assembly disposed within either one of the first door and second door, an upper latch assembly interconnecting the vertical reinforcement assembly and the roof rail, and a lower latch assembly interconnecting the vertical reinforcement assembly and the rocker to resist inward movement of the first door and the second door from the closed position with respect to the body of the pick-up truck.

Door assembly for pick-up trucks

A reinforced door assembly for closing a door opening in a side of a body of a pick-up truck includes a first door pivotally connected to the body between an open and closed position and a second door pivotally connected to the body between an open position and a closed position. The reinforced door assembly also includes a rocker at a bottom portion of the door opening and a roof rail at a top portion of the door opening. The second door includes a vertical reinforcement assembly extending upwardly to the roof rail and downwardly to the rocker to overlap a floor of the pick-up truck to resist inward movement of the door from the closed position with respect to the body of the pick-up truck.

Reinforced door assembly for pick-up trucks

A door reinforcement system for closing an aperture in a side of a body of a pick-up truck includes a first door and a second door pivotally connected to the body and joined pillarlessly between an open position and a closed position, a vertical reinforcement beam disposed within one of the first door and the second door, and a door latch striker connected directly to the vertical reinforcement beam and a door latch connected to the other one of the first door and the second door to engage the door latch striker to resist inward movement of the first door and second door from the closed position with respect to the body of the pick-up truck.

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Livonia, MI, United States of America

Gary Eugene Heldt