Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05F—DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING
  • E05F11/00—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening
  • E05F11/38—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement
  • E05F11/48—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement operated by cords or chains or other flexible elongated pulling elements, e.g. tapes
  • E05F11/481—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement operated by cords or chains or other flexible elongated pulling elements, e.g. tapes for vehicle windows
  • E05F11/483—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement operated by cords or chains or other flexible elongated pulling elements, e.g. tapes for vehicle windows by cables
  • E05F11/488—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement operated by cords or chains or other flexible elongated pulling elements, e.g. tapes for vehicle windows by cables with two cable connections to the window glass
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05F—DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING
  • E05F15/00—Power-operated mechanisms for wings
  • E05F15/60—Power-operated mechanisms for wings using electrical actuators
  • E05F15/603—Power-operated mechanisms for wings using electrical actuators using rotary electromotors
  • E05F15/665—Power-operated mechanisms for wings using electrical actuators using rotary electromotors for vertically-sliding wings
  • E05F15/689—Power-operated mechanisms for wings using electrical actuators using rotary electromotors for vertically-sliding wings specially adapted for vehicle windows
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
  • E05Y2201/00—Constructional elements; Accessories therefor
  • E05Y2201/60—Suspension or transmission members; Accessories therefor
  • E05Y2201/622—Suspension or transmission members elements
  • E05Y2201/64—Carriers
  • E05Y2201/642—Trackless carriers
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
  • E05Y2900/00—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
  • E05Y2900/50—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for vehicles
  • E05Y2900/53—Type of wing
  • E05Y2900/55—Windows

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a system for driving and guiding a sliding window, retractable in a bodywork casing of a motor vehicle, in particular of an opening leaf such as a door.
• the present invention therefore relates to a system for driving and guiding a retractable sliding window in a bodywork casing of a motor vehicle, in particular in a door casing, this system comprising, inside the casing :
• the door casing is devoid of casing runners and in that at least one of the guide members of the sliding window comprises either a part of the window frame slide, which is integral with this slide and extends it inside the door casing, that is to say a part of such a window frame slide, arranged in its extension, but distinct from it, said part of slide covering in each usual case the corresponding section of the glass.
• the window frame slide part housed inside the box is advantageously rigid or stiffened locally.
• the deflection pulleys are advantageously carried by the lugs fixed on the slide part housed inside the box and used for fixing the assembly.
• the two guide members of the sliding window inside the box each comprise either a part adjoining the window frame slide, this part being disposed respectively at the front and at the rear of the door. of the vehicle and extending the window frame slide in the door casing, or a part of such a window frame slide, but separate from the latter and housed in its extension in the door box.
• the system according to the invention can also include a guide member consisting of a part of the window frame slide, separate from it or not and arranged in its extension inside the door casing, while the second guide member comprises a guide rail of the prior art, offset as far as possible towards the rear or, respectively, towards the front of the vehicle with respect to the vertical of the center of gravity of the sliding window.
• system according to the invention can be arranged indifferently on one side or the other of the window (although it is preferably located on the side of the interior of the vehicle) and that the it is therefore possible to provide a diagonal extension of a fixing lug with a part capable of replacing or supporting the usual anti-intrusion bar of the door.
• Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the frame of an automobile door equipped with a first version of the system according to the invention, in which the two guide members are constituted by extensions inside the casing of the window frame slides;
• Figures 2 A and 3 A are cross sections along lines II - II and III - III, respectively, of Figure 1;
• Figures 2 B and 3 B are cross sections similar to Figures 2 A and 3 A of another embodiment of Figure 1;
• Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 1 of another embodiment of the invention, in which one of the guide members is constituted by an extension of the window frame slide, at the front of the door box, and the other guide member is a rail arranged at the rear of the box, but close to the vertical of the center of gravity of the window;
• Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure I ⁇ 'a third embodiment of the invention, in which one of the guide members is constituted by an extension of the window frame slide at the rear of the box door, while the other guide member is a rail disposed at the front of the box, but close to the vertical of the center of gravity of the window;
• Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 1 of a fourth embodiment of the invention, with a more complete modular system of sliding glass;
• FIG. 7 is a cross section along the line VII -VII of FIG. 6.
• the window frame slide extends inside the door casing 2, at the front and at the rear of the latter, by parts, 4a and 4b respectively, which are integral with them and which serve here as sole guide members for the glass inside the door casing.
• the window 3 is stressed by an endless cable 5, with interwoven strands, which is driven by a reversible electric motor 6, and which is rigidly secured to the base of the window at two points, 1 la, 1 lb, arranged respectively at front and back of the glass.
• the cable 5 passes over four idler pulleys, two of them, referenced 7a and 7b, being arranged at the upper part of the door casing, respectively at the front and at the rear thereof, while the two others, referenced 8a and 8b, are arranged in the lower part of the box, respectively at the front and at the back of the latter.
• These pulleys are carried by fixing lugs, respectively 9a, 9b and 10a, 10b, which are fixed respectively on the upper part and on the lower part of the parts 4a and 4b of the slides arranged inside the door casing.
• one of the lugs has dimensions much greater than those of the other fixing lugs and it supports the motor 6.
• the other lugs could also have shapes and dimensions allowing them to have additional functions in the door casing, as indicated above.
• the sliding glass being guided in its movements inside the door casing exclusively by the parts 4a and 4b extending the slide 4 of the window frame, without any auxiliary guiding member, and in particular without box slides additional, a maximum volume is freed for various uses in the door casing.
• the slide 4 can be of any type known per se and the sections given in FIGS. 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B are only for illustrative purposes, without any limiting character.
• the lugs can be fixed locally by injection of a rigid thermoplastic material, for example ( Figure 2B).
• the parts 4a and 4b are not necessarily adjoining the window frame slide 4, but can be formed by separate parts of such a slide, arranged in the extension of the slide 4 in the door casing and oriented in the direction of movement of the window 3.
• a member for guiding the window 3 inside the door casing is always constituted by a part 4a or 4b extending the window frame slide 4 and disposed respectively at the front or at the rear of the door 1, and the return pulleys, respectively 7a, 8a, and 7b, 8b, are always carried by lugs, respectively 9a, 10a, and 9b, 10b, fixed respectively on the sliding parts 4a, 4b.
• a second guide member for the window in the box is constituted by a guide rail of the type of those of the prior art, referenced 12 in FIG. 4 and 13 in FIG. 5.
• the rails 12 and 13 are offset as far as possible from the vertical of the center of gravity of the window 3, towards the rear ( Figure 4) or towards the front ( Figure 5) of the door 1. These guide rails support the fixing lugs 9a, 10a ( Figure 4) and 9b, 10b ( Figure 5).
• the space freed up inside the door box between the guide members is here less than that available in the embodiment of FIG. 1, but, because one of the guide members of the sliding window in the door casing is always constituted by a part 4a, 4b of the window frame slide and that no box slide is not present, the space available is still much greater than that which was available in the prior art.
• the cost of the system according to the invention proves to be still much lower than that of the sliding window drive systems of the prior art, while offering free volumes at specific locations in the box.
• FIG. 7 which represents a preferred embodiment of the invention, the members already described are again designated by the same reference numbers.
• the reinforcement 20 of the interior door belt and the swollen part of the interior door panel 21 disposed opposite are advantageously used, which makes it possible to widen this door border area to facilitate, or even simply make possible, the introduction and assembly of the entire window regulator, delivered fully pre-assembled.

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