Vehicle door

US6929307B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• ArvinMeritor GmbH · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 28, 2000
• Grant date: Aug 16, 2005
• Expiry date: Sep 28, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J5/0418
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Hollow-interior vehicle door consisting of an internal in its entirety essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening structure, and of at least one external outer panel element being essentially lid-shaped and supported by the essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening structure, such as a door skin, as well as of functional parts for practicing the door functions, and of optionally an inner panel element, in which the essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening structure serves to accommodate functional parts of the vehicle door. The essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening structure is divided into two parts, in fact, into a first frame-shaped stiffening element (12) for supporting the outer panel element (outer panel 10) and into a second essentially pot-shaped or pan-shaped stiffening element (14) for supporting functional parts of the vehicle door (1) and that the two stiffening elements (12 and 14) have, in the area of the outward-pointing, thus in Y-direction pointing, side walls of the door interior (1A), elongated, preferably frame-shaped connecting surfaces (18 and 18′) which define the access opening (1B) to the door interior (1A).