Cable drive for motor-vehicle sliding door

US6231113A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kiekert AG · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Armbruster · Heiligenhaus, DE
• Kornelia Greulich · Essen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 31, 1999
• Grant date: May 15, 2001
• Expiry date: Mar 31, 2019

Classification

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

Abstract

A cable drive for a motor vehicle having a body and a door slidable outside the body has a rotatable shaft projecting through the body and having an outer end outside the vehicle adjacent the door and an inside end inside the vehicle. A drum outside the vehicle is mounted on the outside end and a cable wholly outside the vehicle is wound around the drum and connected to the door so that rotation of the drum and shaft in one direction slides the door into a closed position and opposite movement slides it into an open position. A motor unit wholly inside the vehicle is connected to the inside shaft end to rotate the shaft.