Device for checking the door of a vehicle

• US 8,938,852 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2012
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: KWANGJIN Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: KWANGJIN Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Seung Tae
• Primary Examiner(s): MILLER, WILLIAM L
• Application Number:
  US14/119,376
• Publication Number:
  US 20140096342A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,084 Days
• Field of Search: 16/49, 16/62, 16/69, 16/64, 16/82, 16/85, 16/86.C, 163/37, 163/54, 163/20, 16D/IG.10, 16D/IG.14, 296/146.11, 292/251.5, 292/275, 493/50, 493/58
• US Class Current: 16/82
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 17/003 Power-actuated devices for limiting the opening of vehicle doors
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 17/203 concealed, e.g. for vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 11/10 Devices for preventing movement between relatively-movable hinge parts
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 5/00 Braking devices, e.g. checks; Stops; Buffers construction of pneumatic or liquid braking devices E05F3/00; braking devices, buffers or end stops on drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture A47B88/473; combined with devices for holding wings open E05C17/00; devices for limiting opening of wings or for holding wings open by a movable member extending between frame and wing E05C17/04
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 5/003 for sliding wings Fasteners specially adapted for holding sliding wings open E05D13/04
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 5/02 specially for preventing the slamming of swinging wings during final closing movement, e.g. jamb stops
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/21 Brakes
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/46 Magnets
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/462 Electromagnets
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/71 Toothed gearing
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/531 Doors

Abstract

A device for checking the door of a vehicle that includes a fixing member that is attached to a vehicle body; a checker arm, an edge of which is hinge combined with the fixing member to be rotated and is located between a door and the vehicle body; and a door checker that is attached to the door to maintain the door in a stop-state at a position on a moving path of the door while sliding in a length direction of the checker arm by accommodating the checker arm therein, wherein the door checker includes: a housing in which an accommodation space is formed; a transformation element that is accommodated in the housing and transforms a straight line motion of the checker arm into a rotational motion by being engaged with the checker arm; a rotation element that is disposed within the housing, rotates by being engaged with the transformation element, and includes a friction plate; a fixing element that is fixedly installed in the housing and restricts the rotation member by attracting the friction plate of the rotation element by an electromagnetic force when an electrical signal is applied thereto; and a control element that controls ON and OFF of the electrical signal being applied to the fixing element.

Claims

1. A device for checking a door of a vehicle comprising:

a fixing member that is attached to a vehicle body;

a checker arm, an edge of which is hinge combined with the fixing member to be rotated and is located between the door and the vehicle body; and

a door checker that is attached to the door to maintain the door in a stop-state at a position on a moving path of the door while sliding in a length direction of the checker arm by accommodating the checker arm in the door checker,

wherein the door checker comprises;

a housing in which an accommodation space is formed;

a transformation element that is accommodated in the housing and transforms a straight line motion of the checker arm into a rotational motion by being engaged with the checker arm;

a rotation element that is disposed within the housing, rotates by being engaged with the transformation element, and includes a friction plate;

a fixing element that is fixedly installed in the housing and restricts the rotation element by attracting the friction plate of the rotation element by an electromagnetic force when an electrical signal is applied thereto; and

a control element that controls ON and OFF of the electrical signal being applied to the fixing element.

2. The device for checking the door of a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the rotation element fixes a position of the door by restricting rotation by the of the fixing element when the transformation element rotates in one direction, and allows the moving of the door even when the rotation element is repressed by the fixing element when the transformation element rotates in a direction opposite from the one direction.

3. The device for checking the door of a vehicle of claim 2, wherein the rotation element comprises:

a rotation member that rotatably engages with the transformation element;

an elastic member that engages with the rotation member and is elastically deformed so that an outer diameter thereof increases or decreases according to the rotational direction of the rotation member;

a cylindrical member that accommodates the elastic member therein and frictionally contacts the elastic member so the outer diameter of the elastic member is not expanded beyond a certain limit when the outer diameter of the elastic member is increased according to the rotation of the rotation member; and

the friction plate is fixedly combined with the cylindrical member and the rotation thereof is restricted while the friction plate frictionally contacts the fixing element.

4. The device for checking the door of a vehicle of claim 3, wherein

the elastic member is a torsion spring, an edge of which protrudes inwards;

and

the rotation member comprises a gear unit having gear teeth on an outer circumference thereof and an insertion stop unit that is inserted into the torsion spring and comprises a slot into which the edge of the torsion spring is inserted.

5. The device for checking the door of a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the transformation element comprises:

a first gear member on which gear teeth are formed and that comprises a first stop unit that protrudes from a surface thereof;

a second gear member on which gear teeth are formed, that comprises an insertion space on a surface thereof by protruding along an edge thereof, and comprises a second stop unit that protrudes from a surface of the insertion space; and

an elastic insertion member that is inserted in the insertion space, transmits a rotation force of the first gear member to the second gear member by comprising slots into which the first stop unit and the second stop unit are inserted, and absorbs an impact that is applied to the first gear member since the elastic insertion member is formed of an elastically deformable material.