Meritor Light Vehicle Systems - France

Meritor Light Vehicle Systems&mdash;france

Pascal DeVries

Charles Berry Hopson

Laurent Arquevaux

Simon Blair Dobson

Mark Graham Lawrie

Damien Cabanne

Herve Laurandel

Jacky Mercier

Klaus B W Blume

Yaun Le Gallo

Hong Vu Nguyen

David Lewicki

A door panel assembly includes a panel with a window regulator mounted on one side and a power mechanism mounted on an opposite side. The panel has a first alignment feature for aligning the window regulator relative to the panel and a second alignment feature for aligning the power mechanism relative to the panel. The first and second alignment features facilitate alignment of the window regulator and the power mechanism to each other. Further, the first and second alignment features allow initial assembly of one of the window regulator or power mechanism components to the panel with a subsequent assembly of the remaining component to the panel without having to hold the first component in place.

Door panel assembly

A window lifter comprises a cable, a window linkage driven by the cable, a fixed device and a cable redirecting device. The cable redirecting device is rotatably mounted on the fixed device and adapted to automatically lock onto the fixed device upon reaching a predetermined angular position. In addition, the cable redirecting device has a cable guiding portion which is not a figure of revolution about the axis of rotation relative to the fixed device. This window lifting mechanism provides a simple structure with few elements. Its assembly is also simple: the cable-redirecting device is rotatably mounted on the fixed device; it is thereafter rotated for tensioning the cable and then locked in a position where the cable is tensioned.

Vehicle window lifter with cable tensioning device

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Sandillon, France

Pascal DeVries