IP Library Granted Patent US 7,748,768
Granted Patent B2
US 7,748,768 · App. 11/986,704 · Granted Jul 6, 2010

Door hinge for motor vehicle

Assignee: Automotive Group ISE Innomotive Systems Europe GmbH
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Patent No.
US 7,748,768
App. No.
11/986,704
Granted
Jul 6, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A door hinge for a motor vehicle has a column console that can be arranged on a door frame and a door console that can be attached to a vehicle door, wherein the door console and the column console are connected together as counterpieces at two bearing points arranged spaced from each other in a pin-jointed manner and separable for disassembly. In order to provide a motor vehicle door hinge in which the engaged surface are effectively protected from damage, it is provided that at the bearing points the door console or column console has a sliding bushing and the jointed connection is formed by two bolts, each of which extend through a sliding bushing and the associated counterpiece, wherein the sliding bushings and the bolts are arranged on the door or column console and on each other such that in the case of a pivoting of the consoles relative to each other the bolt is rotated relative to the sliding bushing and in the case of disassembly of the column console from the door console the bolt remains in the sliding bushing.

Claims (15)

1. A door hinge for a motor vehicle comprising:

a column console that can be arranged on a door frame; and

a door console that can be attached to a vehicle door;

wherein the door console and the column console are connected together as counterpieces at two bearing points arranged spaced from each other in a pin-jointed manner and separable for disassembly,

wherein, at the bearing points the door console or the column console has a sliding bushing and a jointed connection formed by two bolts and each said bolt extending through a sliding bushing and an associated counterpiece, and wherein the sliding bushing and the bolts are arranged on the door console or column console and on each other such that, in the case of a pivoting of the consoles relative to each other, the bolt is rotated relative to the sliding bushing and, in the case of disassembly of the column console from the door console, the bolt remains in the sliding bushing.

2. The door hinge for a motor vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the bolts has a sliding bushing section and a stud for the arrangement of a stud collet of the counterpiece of the door console or column console on the at least one bolt.

3. The door hinge for a motor vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the stud has a cross-section deviating from a circular form and the stud collet has a corresponding cross-section.

4. The door hinge according to claim 3 , wherein said cross-section is polygonal.

5. The door hinge for a motor vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the stud is designed conically and the stud collet is designed conical.

6. The door hinge for a motor vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the stud has an internal thread for receiving a fastening screw.

7. The door hinge for a motor vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the sliding bushing section and the stud are separated from each other by a circumferential bar, and wherein the bar has a diameter greater than a diameter of the stud collet.

8. The door hinge for a motor vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein at least one of the bolts is fixed in a rotatable manner by a rivet connection with the door console or column console in the sliding bushing.

9. The door hinge for a motor vehicle according to claim 8 , wherein a disk is arranged between a rivet head and the door console or column console.

10. The door hinge for a motor vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the stud collet and a sliding bushing collet are produced by blanking.

11. The door hinge for a motor vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein at a first bearing point, a first sliding bushing is arranged in the column console and at a second bearing point, a second sliding bushing is arranged in the door console and the studs of the bolts arranged in the sliding bushings extend in opposite directions, away from each other.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 3, 2014
From: ISE AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
To: METALSA AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
Reel/Frame 032118/0886 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 5, 2008
From: HOFACKER, DENNIS; LOWEN, JAKOB; OLFERT, JOHANN
To: AUTOMOTIVE GROUP ISE INNOMOTIVE SYSTEMS EUROPE GMBH
Reel/Frame 020639/0062 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2006 056 549 · Nov 29, 2006 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20080150320A1 · Jun 26, 2008