Door edge protection device

• US 8,826,596 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2013
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Tensing, Matthias
• Primary Examiner(s): Mitchell, Katherine
• Assistant Examiner(s): MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M
• Application Number:
  US13/936,417
• Publication Number:
  US 20130300150A1
• Time in Patent Office: 428 Days
• Field of Search: 494/60, 494/62, 292/1, 292/DIG.38, 292/DIG.65, 292/DIG.70, 296/152, 704/16, 704/17, 704/18
• US Class Current: 49/462
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/043 Door edge guards
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/03 Miscellaneous
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7921 Armoring
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7927 Anti-jimmy

Abstract

A door edge protection device for a motor vehicle door, with a door edge protection profile (5) which is guided movably with respect to the door at at least two points lying one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the door, the door edge protection profile (5) being driven via an eccentric lever (7) mounted rotatably in the door and the door edge protection profile (5) having a holding rod (6) which is guided by a linear guide (10) which is fixed in the door, the holding rod (6) being bent in the region of the linear guide (8, 9; 11).

Claims

1. A vehicle door edge protection device comprising:

a door edge protection profile movably guided with respect to a vehicle door;

a linear guide fixed in the door;

a rod comprising a curved portion disposed in the linear guide; and

a lever that executes rotational movement of at least 180°

to drive the rod to move the door edge protection profile along a curved path between a retracted position and an extended position on an edge of the door, wherein the curved portion of the rod in combination with the linear guide dictates the curved path of the movement of the door edge protection profile between the retracted and extended positions.

2. The protection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lever executes rotational movement greater than 250°

to drive the rod to move the door edge protection profile between the retracted position and the extended position.

3. The protection device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the lever executes rotational movement between 0°

to 290°

to drive the rod to move the door edge protection profile between the retracted position and the extended position.

4. The protection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lever executes rotational movement of at most 290°

to move the door edge protection profile between the retracted position and the extended position.

5. The protection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the door edge protection profile is guided movably with respect to the door at least two points lying one behind another in a longitudinal direction of the door.

6. The protection device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the door edge protection profile is guided movably with respect to the door at one point provided by the lever lying behind another point provided by the linear guide in the longitudinal direction of the door.

7. The protection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lever executes rotational movement of approximately 270°

to drive the rod to move the door edge protection profile between the retracted position and the extended position.

8. A vehicle door edge protection device comprising:

a door edge protection profile movably guided with respect to a vehicle door;

a linear guide fixed in the door; and

a lever mounted rotatably in the door and coupled to a holding rod having a curved portion disposed in the linear guide for driving the door edge protection profile as the lever executes a rotational movement between 0 to 290°

to move the door edge protection profile along a curved path between a retracted position and an extended position on an edge of the door, wherein the curved portion of the rod in combination with the linear guide dictates the curved path of the movement of the door edge protection profile between the retracted and extended positions.

9. The protection device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the lever is behind the linear guide in a longitudinal direction of the door.

10. The protection device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the door edge protection profile is guided movably with respect to the door at one point provided by the lever lying behind another point provided by the linear guide in the longitudinal direction of the door.

11. The protection device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the lever executes rotational movement of approximately 270°

to drive the rod to move the door edge protection profile between the retracted position and the extended position.