Faurecia Innenraum Systeme Gmbh

Arvinmeritor Gmbh

Rockwell-golde G.m.b.h.

Meritor Automotive Gmbh

Harald Kollner

Rainer Grimm

Simon Blair Dobson

Arnd Herwig

Daniel Drewniok

Klaus-Dieter Strauss

Georg Wurm

Patrick Hof

Kenneth W Schang

Bernhard Sielhorst

Enrico Schliwa

Bernhard Eckhardt

Gregory Keyes

Klaus-Peter Maass

Horst Bohm

Peter Schafer

Wilhelm Scherf

Heinz Blankenburg

Patrice Cardine

Uwe Bergmann

Stefan Jutzi

Fritz Marr

Georg Uhlig

A window lift system, especially for the side window of a motor vehicle, includes (i) a pulling device and (ii) a catch for a window pane, which can be moved up and down using the pulling device. The catch has a first fastening point for an upward pulling end of the pulling device and a second fastening point for a downward pulling end of the pulling device, which point is horizontally off-set from the first fastening point in the window pane plane when the window pane is fitted. The window lift system also includes (iii) an arrangement positioning and fixating the catch in terms of at least three degrees of freedom so that the catch can be maintained in a position that is defined in terms of the degrees of freedom even when the window pane is not yet fitted.

Window lift system and method for fitting a window pane

The present invention relates to a window-winding arrangement () as well as a motor vehicle door containing this window-winding arrangement. The window-winding arrangement contains a drive means () as well as a guide means for the drive and for guiding a pane () belonging to the window-winding arrangement. The drive means and guide means is designed in a manner such that the drive force for movement is applied onto the pane such that this () independently of its movement direction is always pressed against a certain guide edge () of the guide means. With this it is rendered possible on manufacture of the window-winding arrangement to envisage greater tolerances as well as to do away with the costintensive installation of additional guide rails in the door inner space. Furthermore one achieves a reduction in friction as well as a reduction in weight.

Window-winding arrangement

The invention relates to a motor vehicle door, consisting of an interior sheet metal and an exterior sheeting, together which form a hollow interior space of the door, having an opening in the interior sheet metal and having a carrier module that closes said opening, and carries at least one functional part of the motor vehicle door, such as a hinge part, lock part or window lifter part. In order to simplify the assembly of a motor vehicle door it is proposed that the vehicle door () features, apart from the opening () in the interior sheet metal () which may be closed by means of a carrier module, an additional access opening () adequately large for inserting the carrier module, including the at least one functional part, into the interior space () of the door and that the carrier module consists of a base plate () which closes the opening () of the interior sheet metal () from the side of the hollow interior space () of the door.

Motor vehicle door

Hollow-interior vehicle door consisting of an internal in its entirety essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening structure, and of at least one external outer panel element being essentially lid-shaped and supported by the essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening structure, such as a door skin, as well as of functional parts for practicing the door functions, and of optionally an inner panel element, in which the essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening structure serves to accommodate functional parts of the vehicle door. The essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening structure is divided into two parts, in fact, into a first frame-shaped stiffening element () for supporting the outer panel element (outer panel) and into a second essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening element () for supporting functional parts of the vehicle door () and that the two stiffening elements (and) have, in the area of the outward-pointing, thus in Y-direction pointing, side walls of the door interior (A), elongated, preferably frame-shaped connecting surfaces (and') which define the access opening (B) to the door interior (A).

Vehicle door

In a vehicle door with a door body ( ) and a support panel ( ) for electrical components, a plug-in connector ( ) is provided for electrically connecting said components to an external electrical line. The support panel ( ) can be inserted into or can be mounted to cover an opening ( ) of the door body ( ) in a way which allows that the plug-in connector ( ) is accessible from an outer surface of the door body ( ) for a plug-in connection to said external electrical line. In order to simplify assembling of the door body and the support panel, the plug-in connector ( ) is fastened permanently to the support panel ( ) on its inward-facing side and its insertion port or mouth ( A) is oriented toward the outer side of the door body and, therein, toward an entry opening ( ) for the plug-in end of the external electrical line.

Door with support panel for electrical components

A motor vehicle door includes structural parts for providing the rigidness of the vehicle door and includes a structural element and a lining element. The door further includes function components for providing vehicle door functions like a window panel with a regulator. At least one of the structural parts serves as a support of the function components. In order to reduce the number of individual components, at least one of the structural parts forms a completely shaped composite or sandwich part having a plastic based matrix and further having several of the function components included to serve a rigidness providing bodies. The bodies are molded into the plastic based matrix by the plastic based matrix.

Vehicle door including structural element support for a functional component

In a pane guiding system for an automobile sliding window, a central guide rail, to be fixed to the bodywork, is provided, on flanges of which a support plate, connected both to the window pane and also to the force-transmitting element of a window winder, is slidably guided by slide elements fixed on the support plate. For compensating the movement clearance resulting from wear on the slide tracks, the flanges of the guide rail are of resilient construction, so that they bear virtually without play against the associated guide surfaces of the slide elements even after fairly long periods in operation.

Pane guide for an automobile sliding window

In a pane guide for a sliding window capable of being lowered into the window shaft (8) of an automobile, the windowpane (1) is laterally guided on windowframe components (4,5), in which back-cut guide channels (18,18') are provided, in which slide elements (23,23') are displaceably guided. The slide elements are connected with the windowpane (1), covering the windowframe components on the outer side of the vehicle, by carrier elements (19 to 22). Due to the mounting of the windowpane outside the windowframe, a projectionless lateral glazing of an automobile is made possible. At the lower end of at least one of the lateral windowframe components (4,5), the guide tube (11, 11') of a cable/tube window winder is connected in alignment with the guide channel (18, 18'). The threaded cable (12, 12') of the window winder extends into the guide channel (18, 18') and is fixed at least to one of the slide elements (19 to 22) situated therein. In this manner a low overall height of the windowshaft is achieved, so that the windowpane and the window shaft can have approximately the same height. With the windowpane (1) is associated a seal (46) disposed on the windowframe (4 to 7), which seal is either continually in sealing contact with the windowpane or, by a movable mounting of the seal or of the windowpane, is arranged so that it can be pressed automatically onto the windowpane (1).

Pane guide for a sliding window capable of being lowered into the window

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Harald Kollner