Pressure-ball sliding doorstop

• US 6,842,943 B2
• Filed: 05/17/2001
• Issued: 01/18/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edscha Engineering GmbH (Acek Desarrollo y Gestión Industrial SL)
• Original Assignee: Edscha AG (Edcar Holding Gesellschaft Mit Beschränkter Haftung)
• Inventors: Heinrichs, Gundolf, Hoffmann, Peter, Duning, Ralf
• Primary Examiner(s): Sandy, Robert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jackson, Andre′ L.
• Application Number:
  US10/258,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20030051312A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,342 Days
• Field of Search: 16/85, 16/85.C, 16/86.R, 16/86.A, 16/86.C, 16/49, 16/54, 16/61, 16/70, 16D/IG.10, 16D/IG.17, 16D/IG.21, 292/262, 292/267, 292/DIG.15, 292/DIG.17, 296/146.11, 296/146.12, 267/196, 267/199, 267/248, 267/249
• US Class Current: 16/82
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 17/203 concealed, e.g. for vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 292/15 Door, checks, floor

Abstract

A doorstop that includes a retainer piece disposed on one of a door and a door support, the retainer piece including a plastic housing with a main opening and a guide opening arranged perpendicular to the main opening and parallel to a pivot axis of the door. The doorstop also includes a door retaining rod articulated on the other of the door and the door support. The door retaining rod passes through the main opening of the retainer piece housing and includes a brake ramp and a catch depression on a side of the door retaining rod. The doorstop also includes a catch device configured to determine specific door opening positions. The catch device includes a brake body and a spring. The catch device connects the retainer piece and the door retaining rod to each other in a moveable manner. The brake body includes a hollow cylinder having a semi-spherical closed end and an open end and is slidingly disposed in the guide opening of the retainer piece. The open end accommodates the spring so that the closed end is pre-tensioned by the spring relative to the brake ramp and catch depression and is guided in the guide opening free of tilt.

Claims

1. A doorstop, comprising:

a retainer piece disposed on one of a door and a door support and including a plastic housing with a main opening and a guide opening arranged perpendicular to the main opening and parallel to a pivot axis of the door;

a door retaining rod articulated on the other of the door and the door support, the door retaining rod passing through the main opening of the retainer piece housing and including a brake ramp and a catch depression on a side of the door retaining rod; and

a catch device configured to determine specific door opening positions and including a brake body and a spring, the catch device connecting the retainer piece and the door retaining rod to each other in a moveable manner, wherein the brake body includes a hollow cylinder having a semi-spherical closed end and an open end and is slidingly disposed in the guide opening of the retainer piece, the open end partially accommodating the spring therein so that the closed end is pre-tensioned by the spring relative to the brake ramp and catch depression and is guided in the guide opening free of tilt.

2. The doorstop as recited in claim 1, characterized in that the semi-spherical closed end of the brake body projects into the main opening and bears against the side of the door retaining rod having the brake ramp and catch depressions.

3. The doorstop as recited in claim 1, wherein the semi-spherical closed end of the brake body is a cap.

4. The doorstop as recited in claim 1 wherein the brake body includes plastic and the semi-spherical closed end of the brake body is truncated.

5. The doorstop as recited in claim 1 wherein the main opening has walls arranged perpendicular to an intersection to the guide opening, the walls including arches having convexly rounded dome heads arranged on a level with the guide opening for laterally guiding the door retaining rod perpendicular to the side having the catch depression.

6. The doorstop as recited in claim 1 wherein an outer surface of a cylindrical portion of the brake body is fluted in the direction of movement.

7. The doorstop as recited in claim 1, wherein a profile of the main opening is shaped to enable the door retaining rod to swivel by at least plus/minus 12.5°

about an axis that that is perpendicular to the pivot axis and intersects an axis of the cylindrical brake body.

8. The doorstop as recited in claim 1, wherein the door is a motor vehicle door.

9. The doorstop as recited in claim 1 wherein the retainer piece further includes a second guide opening arranged perpendicular to the main opening and parallel to the pivot axis, and wherein the catch device further includes a second spring and a second brake body slidingly disposed in the second guide opening.

10. The doorstop as recited in claim 9, wherein the door retaining rod includes a second brake ramp and a second catch depression on a second side of the door retaining rod.

11. The doorstop as recited in claim 1, further comprising a U-shaped metal frame enclosing an end of the housing.

12. The doorstop as recited in claim 11 wherein the spring is supported against the metal frame.

13. The doorstop as recited in claim 11, further comprising a fixing aperture disposed in an underside of the metal frame.

14. The doorstop as recited in claim 11, further comprising upwardly projecting cushions of elastic material disposed integrally in an upper end surface of the housing between an end of the metal frame and the main opening.

15. The doorstop as recited in claim 1 wherein the door retaining rod includes a metal core covered with plastic and a bearing eye serving as a pivot at one end and an abutment serving as a limit stop at the other end, the limit stop defining an open position of the door.

16. The doorstop as recited in claim 15, wherein the brake ramp and the catch depression are arranged on the side of the door retaining rod facing the pivot axis and are formed by or between bulges of the plastic covering.

17. The doorstop as recited in claim 15, wherein the door retaining rod has a groove in the side having the brake ramp and catch depression, the groove running continuously in a longitudinal direction between the bearing eye and the abutment, a profile of the groove complementing the closed end of the brake body.

18. The doorstop as recited in claim 15, wherein the abutment is integrally formed with the door retaining rod.

19. The doorstop as recited in claim 15, wherein the metal core is centrally divided into two sides, and the abutment is formed by ends of the two sides bent at right-angles in opposite directions from one another.

20. The doorstop as recited in claim 15 wherein the bearing eye run parallel to the pivot axis and is raised relative to a surface of the door retaining rod by a forming out of a section of the metal core parallel to the pivot axis.

21. The doorstop as recited in claim 15 wherein the main opening is dimensioned so that the door retaining rod can be introduced with the end having the bearing eye foremost.

22. A doorstop, comprising:

a retainer piece disposed on one of a door and a door support and including a plastic housing with a main opening and a guide opening arranged perpendicular to the main opening and parallel to a pivot axis of the door;

a door retaining rod articulated on the other of the door and the door support, the door retaining rod passing through the main opening of the retainer piece housing and including a brake ramp and a catch depression on a side of the door retaining rod; and

a catch device configured to determine specific door opening positions and including a brake body and a spring, the catch device connecting the retainer piece and the door retaining rod to each other in a moveable manner, wherein the brake body includes a hollow cylinder having a semi-spherical closed end and an open end and is slidingly disposed in the guide opening of the retainer piece, the open end accommodating the spring so that the closed end is pre-tensioned by the spring relative to the brake ramp and catch depression and is guided in the guide opening free of tilt,

wherein the closed end of the brake body includes a central bore accessible from a cylindrical cavity inside the brake body and includes further bores arranged in a circle around the central bore.

23. A doorstop, comprising:

a door retaining rod pivotably articulated on one of a door and a door support, said door retaining rod having a course comprising at least one of a brake ramp and a catch depression on a first side of said door retaining rod;

a retainer housing disposed on the other of said door and said door support and including a main opening for receiving said door retaining rod and a first guide opening; and

a first catch device disposed in said retainer housing and configured to resiliently engage said first side of said door retaining rod, said first catch device including a first spring and a first brake body,

wherein said first brake body is slidingly disposed in said first guide opening and includes a hollow cylinder having a closed end and an open end,

wherein said first spring urges said closed end towards said first side of said door retaining rod, and

wherein said first spring is accommodated at least partially within said open end.

24. The doorstop as recited in claim 23, wherein said retainer housing is an injection molded plastic part.

25. The doorstop as recited in claim 23, wherein said first guide opening is arranged in said retainer housing substantially perpendicular to said door retaining rod, and wherein said first brake body is guided in said first guide opening free of tilt such that said first spring is compressed according to said course of said door retaining rod displacing said first brake body in said guide opening.

26. The doorstop as recited in claim 23 wherein said closed end is a cap having a truncated, semi spherical shape.

27. The doorstop as recited in claim 23, wherein said closed end includes, on a side facing away from said door retaining rod, internal walls defining a central bore and a plurality of further bores arranged in a circle around said central bore, wherein a diameter of said central bore is larger than a diameter of any of said further bores.

28. The doorstop as recited in claim 23, wherein said retainer housing comprises a second guide opening receiving a second catch device for engaging a second side of said door retaining rod, and wherein said first catch device and said second catch device protrude from said retainer housing in such a manner that said door retaining rod is kept at a distance from circumscribing edges of said main opening.

29. The doorstop as recited in claim 23, wherein said first side of said door retaining rod includes a guide groove centrally running along said door retaining rod, said guide groove being delimited by protruding lateral flanges.

30. The doorstop as recited in claim 29, wherein said guide groove has a profile perpendicular to said course and complimentary to said closed end.