Vehicle door including structural element support for a functional component

US6536832B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• ArvinMeritor GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Grimm · Frankfurt, DE
• Klaus-Dieter Strauss · Braunschweig, DE
• Daniel Drewniok · Frankfurt, DE
• Harald Kollner · Schongau, DE
• Georg Wurm · Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, DE
• Arnd Herwig · Oakland Charter Township, US
• Patrick Hof · Marburg, DE
• Simon Dobson · Folkestone, GB
• Gregory Keyes · Birmingham, GB
• Kenneth W. Schang · Plymouth, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 28, 2000
• Grant date: Mar 25, 2003
• Expiry date: Sep 28, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC E): Fixed Constructions
• CPC primary: E05Y2900/55
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A motor vehicle door includes structural parts for providing the rigidness of the vehicle door and includes a structural element and a lining element. The door further includes function components for providing vehicle door functions like a window panel with a regulator. At least one of the structural parts serves as a support of the function components. In order to reduce the number of individual components, at least one of the structural parts forms a completely shaped composite or sandwich part having a plastic based matrix and further having several of the function components included to serve a rigidness providing bodies. The bodies are molded into the plastic based matrix by the plastic based matrix.