Patent · US Expired

Flexible window regulator assembly

US4660325A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 25, 1985
Grant dateApr 28, 1987
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Expiry dateSep 25, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC E)Fixed Constructions
  • CPC primaryE05Y2900/55
  • WIPO fieldCivil engineering
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

This disclosure deals with a window regulator assembly as a unit such as for vehicles and specifically vehicle doors, which doors have rigid frames so that the assembly may be installed in any type or shape of door, and the three parts of this assembly that are attached to any adjacent panel in the door after the door or wall in which it is to be installed has already been assembled. This assembly comprises a flexible plastic tape which may be twisted and bent in any direction, the opposite ends of which tape are wrapped around reversible motor or manually-driven drums so that as one end is wrapped, the other is unwrapped, and vice versa. These drums comprise the driving part of this assembly that is attached to a door. The tape also has a substantially straight vertical reach intermediate its ends, the length of which reach may be fixed by the length of a flexible plastic strip along this reach of the tape. This vertical reach of tape or strip has guides at its ends that comprise the two other parts of this assembly, which guides preferably surround the tape to insure the assembly as a unit. These two guide parts are attached to the door and are for changing the direction of the t…

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