Structure of car door

• US 20090038232A1
• Filed: 07/31/2006
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Kimoto, Tohru
• Granted Patent: US 8,042,859 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 49/502
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0402 window frame details, including sash guides and glass runs
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0405 Inboard or outboard side of window frame formed integrally with the lower door structure

Abstract

A car door is constituted by a main body which includes an outer panel and an inner panel combined together, a door lower half, and a rising part extending upward from the door lower half and facing with a side edge of a roof via an upper part thereof, and a bracket-shaped sash assembly constituted by a front longitudinal sash whose bottom edge is joined to a front upper end of the door lower half, and a roof-facing sash extending from an upper part of the front longitudinal sash and joined to an upper end of the rising part.

Claims

1. A structure of a car door, wherein an outer panel and an inner panel are joined to make a main door body, the main door body including a door lower half and a rising part extends upward from the door lower half and facing with a side edge of a roof via an upper part thereof;

and a bracket-shaped sash assembly is constituted by a front longitudinal sash whose bottom edge is joined to a front upper end of the door lower half, and a roof-facing sash extending from an upper part of the front longitudinal sash and joined to an upper end of the rising part.

2. The structure according to claim 1, wherein the roof-facing sash includes a bend at a center thereof along a length of the car, a center sash having an upper end joined to the bend and a lower end joined to the door lower half and the rear door is inclined downstream of the bend by an angle larger than an angle by which the rear door is inclined upstream of the bend.

3. The structure according to claim 2, wherein a glass slide is placed in a space defined by the front longitudinal sash and the center sash;

and a stationary pane window is fitted in a space defined by the center sash and the rising part.