Magna International Inc.

Sten Burris

Darren Andrew Womack

Kevin Richard Langworthy

Ryan Robert Warpup

Erryn Leigh Ashmore

David Wayne Cummings

Gary Banasiak

Lawrence Michael Plourde, Jr

Tom Sanor

Dinesh Mahadevan

Mujadded Qureshi

Arun Kumar Reddyvaripalli Narayanaswamy

A system for opening and closing a sliding vehicle door includes a vehicle door that engages with the body in the closed position. A longitudinal track is fixedly mounted to an interior of the vehicle door. A hinged bracket is fixedly mounted to the vehicle body adjacent an opening defined by the vehicle body. The hinged bracket has a laterally compressed shape when the door is closed, and expands laterally outward when the door is opened. The door and the track fixed thereto slide longitudinally along the opened hinged bracket when the door is opened. The interface between the hinged bracket and the track remains at the same generally location relative to the vehicle body, and shifts relative to the vehicle door when the door is opened.

Vehicle sliding door system

A multi-window platen oven for simultaneously heating a plurality of blanks, for example aluminum blanks, before forming the heated blanks in a production line is provided. The oven includes a plurality of vertically aligned shelves disposed in an existing press assembly so that no additional floor space is required. The shelves are attachable to an upper press bed and one another. The upper press bed lifts the attached shelves to present an open window for receiving an unheated blank and/or removing a heated blank from the oven. The remaining windows remain closed and continue heating while the blanks are transferred to and from the oven. After closing the one open window, another window opens to receive another unheated blank and/or remove another heated blank. Thus, the multi-window platen oven continuously provides blanks which are ready for warm or hot forming.

Aluminum warm forming oven and production line

A twist axle assembly () of a vehicle includes a pair of trailing arms () and a twist beam () having a base portion () extending along an axis (A) between first and second twist beam ends (). The twist beam () includes a pair of side walls () extending downwardly from the base portion () and each disposed in spaced relationship with the trailing arms (). At least one mounting bracket () extends from a first mounting bracket end () disposed in abutting relationship with a respective trailing arm () to a second mounting bracket end () disposed in overlaying relationship the side walls () of the twist beam () for allowing the mounting bracket to axially slip or slide along the side walls () of the twist beam () and provide for lateral or axial adjustment of the twist axle assembly () during the manufacturing process.

Twist beam axle assembly with lateral adjustability

A solar tracker and more specifically to a modular support assembly for a solar tracker that allows reduced assembly and transportation costs.

Modular solar support assembly

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Oxford, MI, United States of America

Sten Burris