Motor Vehicle Door Arrangement

• US 20080190033A1
• Filed: 01/27/2006
• Published: 08/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Company KG Coburg
• Original Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Company KG Coburg
• Inventors: Kriese, Olaf, Schultz, Markus, Kruger, Harald
• Application Number:
  US11/884,176
• Publication Number:
  US 20080190033A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 49/489.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 1/17 vertically
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 11/423 for vehicle windows
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 11/426 Flexible rack-and-pinion arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/722 Racks
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/724 Flexible
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/55 Windows

Abstract

A motor vehicle door arrangement with an inside door subassembly which separates a dry space from a wet space and outside space of the door arrangement includes a window pane, a window lifter with an adjustment device for setting the position of the window pane and a seal, which is assigned to the inside door subassembly, for sealing off the dry space with respect to the wet space and the outside space. The adjustment device includes a drive and an adjustment mechanism, which is connected downstream of the drive, in order to transmit the driving torque produced by the drive to the window pane. The entire adjustment mechanism of the window lifter is arranged in the dry space.

Claims

1-39. -39. (canceled)

40. A motor vehicle door arrangement, comprising:

an inside door subassembly separating a dry space from a wet space and outside;

a window pane being adjustable in order to open and close a window opening;

a window lifter with an adjustment device for setting the position of the window pane, the adjustment device having a drive and an adjustment mechanism, connected downstream of the drive in order to transmit a driving torque produced by the drive to the window pane;

a seal, assigned to the inside door subassembly for sealing off the dry space with respect to the wet space and the outside space, wherein the seal is configured to prevent moisture from entering the dry space when the window pane is closed; and

wherein the entire adjustment mechanism of the window lifter is arranged in the dry space.

41. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 40, wherein the adjustment mechanism of the window lifter is coupled in the dry space to the drive.

42. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 41, wherein the drive is arranged in the dry space.

43. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 40, wherein the adjustment mechanism is coupled in the dry space to the window pane.

44. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 43, wherein the adjustment mechanism acts in the dry space on a force application region provided on the window pane.

45. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 40, wherein the window pane has a surface facing the dry space and a surface facing away from the dry space.

46. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 44, wherein the force application region is arranged on one of a surface of the window pane facing the dry space and on a lateral edge of the window pane.

47. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 40, wherein the inside door subassembly comprises an inside door skin having a surface facing the dry space and a surface facing the wet space.

48. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 47, wherein the inside door skin together with an outside door skin bounds a door channel forming the wet space.

49. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 48, wherein the window pane is configured to be lowered into the door channel with the window lifter.

50. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 49, wherein a sealing section protruding into the door channel or being adjacent to the door channel and bearing against the window pane in every setting position thereof is fixed to the inside door skin.

51. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 50, wherein the sealing section extends along the window pane transversely with respect to an adjustment direction of the window pane.

52. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 51, wherein the adjustment mechanism acts in the dry space on a force application region provided on the window pane, wherein the sealing section is disposed on the inside door skin such that the force application region lies above the sealing section for each setting position of the window pane

53. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 47, wherein the drive is arranged upstream of the surface facing the dry space.

54. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 47, wherein the adjustment mechanism is arranged upstream of the surface facing the dry space side.

55. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 47, wherein the adjustment mechanism reaches through an opening in the inside door skin and acts on the force application region of the window pane behind the opening.

56. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 55, wherein the adjustment mechanism acts with a gear element on a gear part stretched out longitudinally in an adjustment direction of the window pane.

57. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 56, wherein the gear element is formed by a pinion and the longitudinally stretched-out gear part is formed by a rack.

58. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 56, wherein the force application region of the window pane is formed by a subregion of the longitudinally stretched-out gear part with the associated gear element.

59. The motor vehicle door arrangement as claimed in claim 55, wherein the sealing section is configured such that the opening of the inside door skin lies above the sealing section.

60. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 50, wherein the adjustment mechanism acts in the dry space on a forece application region provided on the window pane, and wherein the force application region is protected against moisture from the door channel by the sealing section.

61. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 40, wherein the inside door subassembly has a window frame bounding the window opening and wherein the window pane is guided on the window frame in an adjustable manner.

62. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 61, wherein a sealing region is arranged on the window frame and bears against the window pane and, wherein when the window pane is closed, the sealing region seals off the dry space from the outside space.

63. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 62, wherein the sealing region bears both against a surface of the window pane that faces the dry space and against a surface of the window pane that faces away from the dry space.

64. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 63, wherein the sealing region is essentially U-shaped in cross section.

65. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 62, wherein the sealing region in cross section has free ends angled in the direction of the window pane.

66. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 61, wherein the adjustment mechanism acts in the dry space on a force application region provided on the window pane, wherein the adjustment mechanism acts on the window pane in the vicinity of a frame section of the window frame, wherein the frame section is stretched out in the adjustment direction of the window pane, and wherein the force application region is moved along the frame section during an adjustment movement of the window pane.

67. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 66, wherein the force application region is formed by a driver fixed on the window pane and is operatively connected to the adjustment mechanism of the window lifter.

68. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 62, wherein the force application region of the window pane is separated in a moisture proof manner from the outside space by the sealing region.

69. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 68, wherein the force application region is arranged on the window pane in the dry space.

70. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 66, wherein the force application region is one of arranged next to the window pane and on a lateral edge of the window pane.

71. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 66, wherein the force application region lies in the vicinity of an upper edge of the window pane.

72. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 66, wherein in each setting position of the window pane, the force application region lies above the sealing section, the sealing section upwardly bounding the wet space of the door channel.

73. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 66, wherein the window lifter has a flexible, longitudinally stretched-out force transmission element for coupling the drive to the window pane.

74. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 73, wherein the window lifter is configured as a tensioning window lifter acting on the window pane via at least one tensioner which is coupled to the drive.

75. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 74, wherein the tensioner is formed by a rising cable configured to exert tensile and compressive forces on the window pane in order to adjust the window pane.

76. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 74, wherein the tensioner is configured to exclusively exert tensile forces in order to adjust the window pane.

77. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 40, wherein the window pane has, on a lateral edge section, a form-fitting region protruding from a window pane surface of the window pane in a direction of an associated frame section of the window frame, and wherein the form-fitting region is configured to be supported on said frame section in such a manner that a tilting of the window pane about an axis running perpendicularly to the window pane plane is opposed.

78. The motor vehicle door arrangement of claim 40, wherein the window pane is made of plastic.