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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2001
Thomas Dean, Newmarket, CA;
Atoma International Corp, Newmarket, CA;
Abstract
A drive mechanism ( ) for enabling driving and manual movement of a sliding side door ( ). The assembly ( ) has a track assembly ( ) mounted to a vehicle body ( ) at a predetermined height and a drive mechanism ( ) mounted to the sliding side door ( ) so as to be proximate to a door latching mechanism ( ). The drive mechanism ( ) has an input drive motor ( ) driving an output gear assembly ( ) engaging the track assembly ( ) and a transmission gear assembly ( ) with a sliding gear ( ) which selectively couples the input drive motor ( ) and an input gear assembly ( ) to the output gear assembly ( ) between an engaged position for driving movement or disengaged position for manual movement of the sliding side door ( ). In this way, the slide side door ( ) may be moved manually between open and closed positions without having to overcome the effort required of rotating the drive motor ( ).