DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

• US 20170275939A1
• Filed: 03/17/2017
• Published: 09/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: TSUKAGOSHI, Jun, OE, Koji, KATO, Kimihide, KATSUYAMA, Hiroki, SENGOKU, Takayuki, HARUTA, Keisuke
• Application Number:
  US15/461,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20170275939A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 1/1025 with a compression or traction spring
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/622 using screw-and-nut mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/10 Covers; Housings
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/67 Materials; Strength alteration thereof
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/546 Tailgates
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2025/2031 Actuator casings
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2025/2075 Coaxial drive motors
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 25/20 Screw mechanisms with automatic reversal F16H25/12

Abstract

A door opening and closing device for a vehicle includes: a supporting member interposed between a vehicle body and a door, and supporting the door to be openable and closable. The supporting member includes first and second housings whose one end sides are linked to the vehicle body or the door via a linking unit, a spindle, a spindle nut, a coil spring biasing the first and second housings in a direction in which the first and second housings are separated from each other, a motor disposed in the first housing and rotating and driving the spindle, a case accommodating the motor therein, and a spline engaging unit engaging the first housing with the case or a metal member joined to the case not to be relatively movable in the rotational direction using a spline.

Claims

1. A door opening and closing device for a vehicle comprising:

a supporting member which is interposed between a vehicle body and a door, and supports the door to be openable and closable according to expansion and contraction thereof,

wherein the supporting member includes

a first housing which is formed of a resin in a shape of a tube and whose one end side is linked to one of the vehicle body and the door via a linking unit,

a second housing which is formed of a resin in a shape of a tube, whose one end side is linked to the other one of the vehicle body and the door via a linking unit, and which is engaged with the first housing not to be relatively movable in a rotational direction and to be relatively movable in an axial direction,

a spindle which is supported to be rotatable in the first housing,

a spindle nut which is fixed in the second housing, and is screwed to the spindle,

a coil spring which biases the first housing and the second housing in a direction in which the first housing and the second housing are separated from each other,

a motor which is disposed in the first housing and rotates and drives the spindle,

a case which is formed of metal in a shape of a tube, and accommodates the motor therein, and

a spline engaging unit which engages the first housing with the case or a metal member joined to the case not to be relatively movable in the rotational direction using a spline.

2. The door opening and closing device for a vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

an annular member in which a bearing that supports the spindle to be rotatable is disposed on an inner circumferential surface, as the metal member,

wherein the spline engaging unit engages the first housing with the annular member using the spline that is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the annular member and on an inner circumferential surface of the first housing not to be relatively movable in the rotational direction.

3. The door opening and closing device for a vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

an annular wall which extends to an inner radial side from the inner circumferential surface of the first housing, and supports one end side of the coil spring on one end surface in the axial direction; and

an annular member which is joined to the case to be interposed between the other end surface of the annular wall and the case in the axial direction as the metal member,

wherein an annular groove is formed on an end surface of the annular member which faces the other end surface of the annular wall, and

wherein an annular sealing member is disposed in the annular groove.

4. The door opening and closing device for a vehicle according to claim 2, further comprising:

an annular wall which extends to an inner radial side from the inner circumferential surface of the first housing, and supports one end side of the coil spring on one end surface in the axial direction; and

the annular member which is joined to the case to be interposed between the other end surface of the annular wall and the case in the axial direction,

wherein an annular groove is formed on an end surface of the annular member which faces the other end surface of the annular wall, and

wherein an annular sealing member is disposed in the annular groove.