DE19946516A1 - Vehicle door - Google Patents

Abstract

Vehicle door consisting at least of one supporting structure and one functional part, such as a hinge part, a closer, a window pane lifter, a safety part or the like. In order to achieve a vehicle door with a decreased number of parts to be assembled, it is proposed that the supporting structure (12) initially is divided into segments (12A, 12B, 12C, 12D, 12E), that at least a part of the segments (12A, 12B, 12C, 12D, 12E) carries/carry or entirely or partly form a functional part and that the segments (12A, 12B, 12C, 12D, 12E) feature connecting zones (12A', 12B' 12E') in order for the segments (12A, 12B, 12C, 12D, 12E) to be assembled into and held as a supporting structure (12).

Description

The invention relates to a vehicle door with the features of the preamble of claim 1. It can be both around driver, front passenger, rear side and / or rear doors as well as pivoting and sliding doors, in which swivel or sliding hinges can be opened be used.

In conventional vehicle doors, there is the support element from an essentially frame-shaped deep-drawn part Metal to which the functional parts are attached and that at mechanically particularly stressed points by welded doublings or the like reinforced cross-section is. Because of the many individual parts and different Be is the production of a support element and the Assembling a conventional vehicle door is expensive.

Proceeding from this, the invention is based on the problem in generic vehicle doors the number of to be put together reduce parts.  

To solve this problem, a vehicle door with the Features of claim 1 proposed. At its core there is Solution therefore in that the support element from a plurality is formed by initially independent segments, which too at least partially carry a functional part or the radio Form part of the whole or part, and the segments in Area of adjacent connection zones to the support element assemble.

The invention achieves, inter alia, that each Segment - according to the function assigned to it - can initially form an independent assembly visibly the strengths required in their area optimal in terms of cut and profile and yet very simple can be adapted to their task. In particular can the segments fully or partially full functions, like the locking function, the hinge function and the like contain, so not only support segment but also radio tion segment.

The aforementioned, as well as the claimed and in the Ausfüh Example described, to be used according to the invention Components are subject to shape, shape and size processing, choice of materials and technical conception special exceptions, so that those in the respective Application known selection criteria in the context of Claims can be applied without restriction.

Further details, features and advantages of the subject matter of the invention result from the subclaims and the following description of the accompanying drawing, in which a preferred embodiment is shown by way of example. In the drawing, FIG. 1 shows an exploded view of the supporting element of a vehicle door in its initial shape divided into segments.

Adjacent segments 12 A, 12 B, 12 C, 12 D, 12 E have complementary connecting zones 12 A ', 12 B', 12 E ', which combine segments 12 A, 12 B, 12 C, 12 D, Allow 12 E to form a coherent frame, whereby the connection can be made either by screwing, welding, gluing or the like.

Each of these segments 12 A, 12 B, 12 C, 12 D, 12 E is specially designed for its special purpose, ie not only visually in terms of its shape and surface contour, but also with regard to its material thickness and its function. The door sill segment 12 E is designed as a window lifter motor segment which comprises at least one window lifter motor foundation 13 . The door closing segment 12 D has a mounting flange 14 for the door closing element. The door parapet segment 13 B has a mounting flange 15 for the door opening mechanism and the hinge segment 12 C has band parts of the hinges or is integrally connected to these band parts 16 . In this way, the support element is composed of functional segments of the door, and the degree of integration of the respective functional parts can be distinctly different.

Reference list

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Support element

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A segment

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B segment

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C segment

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D segment

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E segment

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A 'connecting zone (complementary)

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Mounting flange

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Mounting flange

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Band parts

Claims (1)

1. Vehicle door, at least consisting of a support element and at least one functional part, such as a hinge part, a closing part, a window lifter, a safety part or the like, characterized in that
that the support element ( 12 ) is first divided into segments ( 12 A, 12 B, 12 C, 12 D, 12 E),
that at least some of the segments ( 12 A, 12 B, 12 C, 12 D, 12 E) carry / carry a functional part or form all or part and
that the segments ( 12 A, 12 B, 12 C, 12 D, 12 E) connecting zones ( 12 A ', 12 B', 12 E ') for joining and holding the segments ( 12 A, 12 B, 12 C , 12 D, 12 E) to the Tragele element ( 12 ).