Hinge for a vehicle flap

US6763551B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Drexl · Königsbrunn, DE
• Anton Kieferl · Schweitenkirchen, DE
• Ulrich Koestler · Hebertshausen, DE
• Juergen Mayr · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 11, 2001
• Grant date: Jul 20, 2004
• Expiry date: Jun 11, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC E): Fixed Constructions
• CPC primary: E05Y2900/546
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

Hinge, particularly for a vehicle flap, having two hinge parts and an axle bolt which, axially inserted into aligned openings in the hinge parts, forms a swivelling axis for the hinge parts. One hinge part is in areas axially arranged either between two legs of the other hinge part or in each case between an axial supporting shoulder of the axle bolt and of the other hinge part. At least two axially adjacent surfaces of the two hinge parts or of one hinge part and of the axle bolt, which are mutually adjusted during the swivelling of at least one hinge part, are sloped in the same direction with respect to an ideal plane perpendicular to the swivelling axis of the axle bolt, whereby, in one angular position, the two hinge parts have an axial distance from one another and, in another angular position, the two hinge parts have no distance from one another or have a smaller axial distance from one another.