Arrangement for guiding a swing-out sliding door on a vehicle body

US5921613A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Steffen Breunig · Elztal, DE
• Oliver Hasenoehrl · Hildrizhausen, DE
• Berthold Klein · Rutesheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 26, 1997
• Grant date: Jul 13, 1999
• Expiry date: Aug 26, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC E): Fixed Constructions
• CPC primary: E05Y2900/531
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An arrangement guides a swing-out sliding door of a vehicle body without a center guide rail which is visibly disposed on the outside on the vehicle body side wall. One linearly constructed guide rail respectively is fixed within the door opening on its upper and lower edge on the vehicle body side. A roller carriage to which the sliding door is linked by way of a control arm parallelogram travels in each guide rail. One closing roller respectively guided in each guide rail travels at the end of the door closing sliding movement into a circular closing groove branching off the guide rail in the direction of the sliding door. The closing roller is fixed to one of the control arms of the control arm parallelogram. The closing groove is constructed such that its curvature center in the door closing position of the roller carriage coincides with the roller-carriage-side hinge axis of the control arm carrying the closing rollers.