Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Independently operating motor vehicle doors with an articulating door interface
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Application No.: US15070803Application Date: 2016-03-15
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Publication No.: US09849759B2Publication Date: 2017-12-26
- Inventor: Lorne Joseph Lovelace , Henry W. Hausler
- Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: King & Schickli, PLLC
- Agent Jason Rogers
- Main IPC: B60J5/06
- IPC: B60J5/06 ; B60J5/04 ; E06B3/36 ; E06B7/23 ; B60J10/86

Abstract:
A door system is provided for a motor vehicle. That door system includes (a) a first independently operable first, door, (b) an independently operable second door, (c) an articulating door interface carried on the first door and (d) a guide on the motor vehicle body. The guide displaces the articulating door interface between a door sealing position when the first door is closed and a door opening position when the first door is opened. A related method is also provided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170267073A1 INDEPENDENTLY OPERATING MOTOR VEHICLE DOORS WITH AN ARTICULATING DOOR INTERFACE Public/Granted day:2017-09-21
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