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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1998

Filed:

Nov. 15, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Lothar Bruckner, Leonberg, DE;

Dietmar Franke, Remscheid, DE;

Uwe Kirsten, Witten, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E05C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
16342 ; 16386 ;
Abstract

A door hinge for a motor vehicle door provided with a braking and retaining function, and including two hinge halves and a hinge pin extending through gudgeons of the two hinge halves for pivotally connecting the hinge halves together, with the hinge pin being secured in a gudgeon of one of the hinge halves against rotation and extending through a gudgeon of another of the hinge halves with a clearance, the hinge pin and bore of the gudgeon of another of the hinge halves having at least along a portion of their common axial extent, complementary, circumferential regions the circularity of which deviates from a regular circular cross-section of their complementary cylindrical surfaces.


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