Roller guide alignment for a vehicle door

Abstract

The vehicle door has a mounting panel with a track formed therein by integral flanges struck from the panel. The window regulator arm has a roller carried thereon for engaging with the track to permit movement of the roller along the panel. The track has an open end permitting entry of the roller into the track when the roller has obtained both axial and cross-track alignment with the track. In order to facilitate installation of the roller into the track, the roller has an end face and the panel has an integral portion thereof underlying the open end of the track and being engaged by the end face of the roller to establish the roller in a position of axial alignment with the panel from which the roller may be easily entered into the open end of the track. In addition, the roller may have a circumferential extending face thereof and the integral portion of the panel underlying the open end of the track may be a depression having walls thereof adapted for engagement by the circumferential extending face of the roller to establish the roller in a position of cross-track alignment with the track, so that the roller may be easily entered into the track.