Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05F—DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING
  • E05F11/00—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening
  • E05F11/38—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement
  • E05F11/382—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement for vehicle windows
  • E05F11/385—Fixing of window glass to the carrier of the operating mechanism
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05F—DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING
  • E05F11/00—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening
  • E05F11/38—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement
  • E05F11/48—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement operated by cords or chains or other flexible elongated pulling elements, e.g. tapes
  • E05F11/481—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement operated by cords or chains or other flexible elongated pulling elements, e.g. tapes for vehicle windows
  • E05F11/483—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement operated by cords or chains or other flexible elongated pulling elements, e.g. tapes for vehicle windows by cables
  • E05F11/488—Man-operated mechanisms for operating wings, including those which also operate the fastening for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement operated by cords or chains or other flexible elongated pulling elements, e.g. tapes for vehicle windows by cables with two cable connections to the window glass
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
  • E05Y2201/00—Constructional elements; Accessories therefor
  • E05Y2201/60—Suspension or transmission members; Accessories therefor
  • E05Y2201/622—Suspension or transmission members elements
  • E05Y2201/64—Carriers
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
  • E05Y2600/00—Mounting or coupling arrangements for elements provided for in this subclass
  • E05Y2600/10—Adjustable
  • E05Y2600/30—Adjustment motion
  • E05Y2600/31—Linear motion
  • E05Y2600/314—Vertical motion
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
  • E05Y2900/00—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
  • E05Y2900/50—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for vehicles
  • E05Y2900/53—Type of wing
  • E05Y2900/55—Windows

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device for guiding a window pane for a window lifter of a wall of a motor vehicle.
• Such guiding devices are mounted in particular for electric window lifts of motor vehicle doors.
• Known guiding devices comprise two guide rails spaced from each other and oriented substantially vertically in the door of the vehicle.
• In these guide rails are mounted movable sliders in translation and these sliders are respectively connected to the glass through an adapter.
• a disadvantage of these guiding devices lies in their mounting mode in the door, because it is necessary to adapt the orientation of the rails in the door for each vehicle of a assembly line, given the positioning dispersions due to the chains of odds. Also, the window which is secured to the guide rails is adjusted in the closed position to ensure the tightness of the closure; the guide rails then held substantially in the same plane and in the door, are then locked in the orientation corresponding to the shutter position of the window. However, if this orientation ensures sealing of the closure, it is not absolutely certain that these guide rails are strictly parallel to each other in this same plane. In addition, the subsequent adjustment of their parallelism may change the first setting. Also, complex systems have been planned to mitigate them.
• the slider comprises two vice plates provided with guide grooves oriented perpendicularly to said guide rails and parallel to said plane, while the adapter, in which the window engages, is provided with complementary ribs and in turn engages between the two plates.
• This system comprises means for clamping the two plates to block the adapter by fixed position relative to the cursor.
• indexing means of the adapter relative to the cursor to adjust the relative position of the cursors with respect to the adapters during the movement of the sliders in the guide rails.
• the relative position of the sliders and adapters must be adjusted prior to tightening the two plates and this adjustment requires to mobilize the window vertically.
• a problem that arises and that aims to solve the present invention is to provide a simpler guiding device, to not only reduce the intrinsic costs, but moreover, to reduce installation costs.
• the present invention proposes a device for guiding a windowpane for a window lifter of a motor vehicle wall, said window being movable in translation relative to said wall in a determined direction, said guiding device comprising two guide rails oriented substantially in said determined direction by defining a mean plane, said guide rails being respectively equipped with a slider mounted to move in translation in the guide rail, said guide device comprising two adapters respectively connecting together said sliders and said pane; according to the invention said adapters are respectively mounted free in translation in said sliders in a direction of sliding substantially perpendicular to said guide rails and parallel to said mean plane, to allow the sliding of said sliders relative to said adapters when said sliders are driven in said rails guide for mobilizing said window in translation.
• a feature of the invention lies in the connection mode of the adapters in their respective slider with which, the sliders are free in translation relative to the adapters in a direction perpendicular to said guide rails and parallel to the average plane. So, instead of looking first for absolute parallelism between the guide rails to then block the adapters in their respective slider, according to the invention is fixed the orientation of the guide rails without worrying about their parallelism and on the other hand, it allows the alternative sliding of the sliders relative to their adapter during the rise and fall of the window, after the final assembly of the device.
• said slider has at least two translation guide grooves opposite to each other and oriented perpendicularly to the guide rail and parallel to said mean plane, while said adapter has two opposite free edges adapted to respectively engage in said guide grooves.
• the two guide grooves respectively form slides in which the free edges are adapted to slide.
• the adapter then has a single degree of freedom in translation relative to the cursor.
• said adapter preferably has two opposite edges respectively along said opposite free edges and said free edges are respectively curved substantially perpendicular to said borders so that the edge and the corresponding free edge, provide more extensive guide surfaces in said grooves.
• said adapter defining a mean plane of adapter, one of said borders is advantageously bent substantially perpendicularly to said mean plane of adapter and in a direction opposite to the free edge of the other of said edges so that the free edge said one of said borders defines a plane substantially parallel and spaced from said average adapter plane while the free edge of said other of said borders is substantially perpendicular to said substantially parallel plane.
• said borders are respectively divided into two edge portions spaced from one another by providing respectively two free edge portions which then form a pair of free wings.
• the adapter then has a free central portion that extends between the edge portions of the two opposite edges.
• one of said borders, and preferably one that is not curved, has a recess so that said free edge portions of said corresponding edge portions define two parallel planes spaced apart from each other.
• the corresponding guide groove will therefore be divided into two portions of grooves offset with respect to one another as will be explained below.
• said slider advantageously has curved U-shaped portions to form said grooves and, preferably having a sliding plane, first slider portions are U-bent in a plane substantially parallel to said sliding plane to form one of said grooves, while second cursor portions are U-bent in a plane substantially perpendicular to said sliding plane to form the other of said grooves.
• first slider portions are U-bent in a plane substantially parallel to said sliding plane to form one of said grooves
• second cursor portions are U-bent in a plane substantially perpendicular to said sliding plane to form the other of said grooves.
• the guiding device further comprises a gripper plate forming a vice integral with said adapter and adapted to be forcefully brought together to receive and fix said window.
• the guiding device further comprises a sliding plate, for example made of a plastic material with a low coefficient of friction, located between said adapter and said slider and which facilitates the sliding of the adapter against the slider, and attenuate the amplitude of the sound waves due to friction.
• FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a guide device of a window according to the invention.
• FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of detail of the guide device shown in Figure 1;
• Figure 3 is a schematic detail view of the object illustrated in Figure 2.
• Figure 4 is a schematic perspective view of the object shown in Figure 2 and cut along the section plane IV-IV.
• Figure 1 shows the lower part of a guide rail 10 equipped with an electric motor 12 which can drive in translation cable not shown.
• a slider 14 On the rail 10 is slidably mounted a slider 14 movable in translation according to the orientation of the rail Z, and is driven by means of the aforementioned cable.
• an adapter 16 On the slider 14 is mounted an adapter 16 which will be detailed below, and which is slidably mounted in the slider 14 in a direction X perpendicular to that of the Z orientation of the rail.
• the guide rail 10 extends substantially parallel to another guide rail similarly equipped but not shown and with which it defines a first middle plane. In Figure 1, the two perpendicular directions X and Z define this first middle plane.
• the adapter 16 formed of a plate, it defines an average adapter plane P substantially parallel to the aforementioned first average plane and it has a first free lower edge portion 18 bent substantially 90 ° with respect to the plane adapter means P.
• a second free lower edge portion which does not appear in FIG. 1 will be described hereinafter.
• it has a first 20 and a second 22 upper edge portions, curved substantially 90 ° to the plane means P adapter opposite the first portion of lower free edge 18, relative to the plane P and which extend respectively by a first 24, and a second 26 upper free edges curved in turn in opposite direction, 90 ° to the first 20 and second 22, upper edge portions.
• FIG. 3 shows the platen 16 entirely uncovered and an inner face 29 of which, behind the plane of FIG. 3, faces the cursor 14.
• first 24 and second 26 curved upper free edges which extend behind the plane P of the plate 16 and substantially parallel to the latter forming two free wings; these free edges 24, 26 extending respectively at 90 ° from the first 20 and second 22 upper edge portions, themselves substantially perpendicular to the plane P.
• first portion of a lower free edge 18 also forming a wing which extends forward of the plane P and whose width is identical to that of the first upper free edge 24.
• first lower free edge portion 18 extends from a first lower edge portion 30 which extends in the plane P of the plate 16.
• second edge portion 32 which forms a recess relative to the first lower edge portion 30, extends a second portion of free lower edge 34 bent substantially perpendicularly and in front of the plane P, which did not appear in Figure 1.
• This second Free lower edge portion 34 also forms a free flange opposite the second upper free edge 26 and parallel to the free lower edge 18.
• a lower platen portion 36 opposite to the upper part 28 in the plane P.
• This lower portion 36 has a slot 38 and a central hole 40, the functions of which will be explained below.
• the slider 14 comprises a substantially rectangular plate 42 provided with four flanges, an upper 44, two side 46, 50 and a lower 48.
• the plate 42 presents a sliding surface 52, here aft of Figure 1 and covered by the plate 16, this sliding surface 52 defining a sliding plane P 'parallel to the plane P of the plate 16.
• the upper rim 44 defines a wafer 54 to two ends of which protrude curved portions U-shaped and respectively forming a first upper portion of grooves 56 and a second upper portion of groove 58. These curved portions 56, 58 to which the sliding plane P 'is tangent are open towards the sliding surface 52.
• the first 24 and second 26 curved upper free edges respectively engage in the first 56 and second 58 upper portions of groove.
• a second lower groove portion 62 which, like the first one, is formed of a curved U-shaped section extending protruding from the sliding surface 52.
• a sliding plate 64 made of a plastic material having a low coefficient of friction, for example polyacetal (POM), is interposed between the plate 16 and the slider 14 more particularly in all the contact surfaces. So, the plate of Slide 64 covers not only the entire sliding surface 52, but also the interior of the curved U-shaped portions 56, 58, 60 and 62 forming the grooves.
• POM polyacetal
• the plate 16 is adapted to be driven in translation in the direction X perpendicular to the rail 10 and to the left so that the upper free edges 24, 26 and the first and second portions of lower free edge 18, 34 respectively engage slidably in the first and second upper groove portions 56, 58 and the first and second lower groove portions 60, 62 covered by the sliding plate 64.
• the inner face 29 of the plate 16 abuts against the sliding plate 64 which itself bears against the sliding surface 52 of the plate 42.
• the plate 16 has a single degree of freedom with respect to the slider in translation in the direction X.
• the length of the free edges 18, 34, 24, 26 corresponds substantially to the length of the grooves 56, 58, 60, 62 and they are adapted to be housed entirely in the grooves simultaneously. Also, the length of the free edges and grooves being of the order of one centimeter, for example two centimeters, in theory, the plate 16 remains secured to the slider 14 on a stroke of about 4 cm.
• the sliding amplitudes that are functionally necessary are less than 1 cm and are, for example, more or less 3.5 mm around a neutral position of the plate 16 and the cursor 14 illustrated. in Figure 1.
• FIG. 4 in which the guiding device according to the invention and shown in FIG. 2 appears precisely in a section perpendicular to the direction X passing through the abovementioned screw here referenced 72 and which is found the head 70.
• the sleeve 66 and the sliding plate 64 actually form one and the same molded piece of plastic.
• the screw 72 whose head 70 bears against the inner surface 29 of the plate 16 inside the sleeve 66 extends through the central hole 40 and projects from the plate 16.
• it is screwed into a nut 74 which, it comes to imprison a clamp plate 76, here in partial view and that will now be described also with reference to Figure 2.
• FIG. 2 illustrates the clamp plate 76 which extends from the lower part 36 of FIG. the plate 16 to the upper part 28.
• a lower portion of the clamp plate 76 which extends opposite the lower portion 36 of the plate 16 has a support tongue 78.
• This support tongue 78 is engaged in the light 38 of the plate 16 and it has a return 80 which comes pre It bears against the inner surface 29 of the plate 16.
• an upper portion of the clamp plate 76 extends facing the upper part 28 of the plate 16 precisely to form a clamp 82.
• the clamp plate 76 has a bore through which the screw 72 and which covers the nut 74 in which said screw is screwed.

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