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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1998
Filed:
May. 09, 1996
Frank Kleefeldt, Heiligenhaus, DE;
Kiekert AG, Heiligenhaus, DE;
Abstract
A door is aligned in an opening of a motor-vehicle in which is fixed a latch by first mounting in the door opening a keeper having a screw adjuster effective for horizontally displacing the keeper on the vehicle transverse to a normal vehicle travel direction, a bolt engageable with the latch and orbitable about a horizontal axis transverse to the normal vehicle travel direction through an arc having an outer pull-in section and an inner adjustment section, a drive including a motor for orbiting the bolt through its arc, and a controller connected to the motor for operating same. Then the door is carefully closed to engage the latch with the bolt and the door is pulled into the opening by orbiting the bolt by its motor through the outer pull-in section of its arc. The position of the door in the door opening is then first adjusted by orbiting the bolt by its motor through at least a part of the inner adjustment section of its arc until the door is in a predetermined centered position in the opening and the position of the bolt is then recorded in the controller so that thereafter the bolt is returned to this position each time the door is closed. Finally the position of the door is adjusted in the door opening by the screw adjuster.