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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2001
Lothar Brückner, Leonberg, DE;
Edscha AG, Remscheid, DE;
Abstract
A hinge for a motor vehicle door allows the door to be displaced with respect to a door pillar in a transverse movement combined with a pivoting movement by means of a four-joint mechanism that has a support arm and a control rod, both of which are hinged to the door and the door pillar. The support arm has a base support arm, at least one support arm element that can be detached from the base support arm and that has two hinge lugs supported on an extremity of the support arm, and means for interlinking the base support arm and the support arm element. The support arm element can be adjusted relative to the support arm through an axis that extends through the tangent plane of the base support arm and the support arm element by rotating them around a swiveling axis that is perpendicular to the tangent plane.