Abstract:
An automotive vehicle includes one or more swinging doors which may be immobilized in a number of positions, so as to allow the door to be used, for example, to assist passengers in entering and leaving the vehicle.
Abstract:
An obstruction detection device for a motor vehicle having a door assembly movably connected to a vehicle body is provided. The device controls the vehicle door's opening angle to prevent inadvertent contact with an object foreign to the vehicle, while providing the largest opening for vehicle ingress and egress. The obstruction detection device includes a controller that is operatively connected to at least one sensor configured to actively monitor and transmit signals to the controller indicative of the presence and corresponding proximity of the object relative to the door assembly. An actuator is operatively connected to and controlled by the controller. The actuator is configured to apply a selectively variable force that restricts the movement of the vehicle door assembly with respect to the vehicle body when the door is a predetermined distance from the object.
Abstract:
The hinge for wings or doors, in particular of electrical appliances, comprises a first box-shaped body, a second box-shaped body, a connecting element between the first and second bodies, and a damper cylinder for applying on the second body an action damping its movement towards the first body.
Abstract:
The invention is a fluidic damper which comprises a closed cylinder (100) containing a valve mechanism. The valve mechanism is attached to a piston rod (110), a portion of which (the piston rod) emerges through an opening in one end wall of the cylinder (100). The valve mechanism (90) comprises a disc (10) with an axle (15), a rotatable annular cover piece (20) and an annular turning piece (40). A spring (30) is disposed between the cover piece (20) and the turning piece (40).
Abstract:
An opening and closing member with a rotary damper for use in a western style stool or piano and the like which facilitates easy control of the rotary damper and easy assembly. Hinge members corresponding to an opening and closing member side are adjacently disposed at the same side of respective hinge members on a side of a proper member. The rotary damper having a particular directivity is disposed between hinge members facing each other. The opening and closing member is swivellably journalled on the proper member about an axis of rotation of the rotary dampers, and the damping power of the rotary damper is applied to the swiveling motion as the opening and closing member swivels with the rotary damper on its axis.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an arrangement comprising a hinge, in particular a furniture hinge, and a damper (7). The damper (7) or damper housing (5), which supports the damper (7), is placed on the hinge by means of at least one securing device (11) which is elastic in places. The securing device (11) comprises at least one first supporting part (12) which is essentially rigid and at least one second supporting part (13) which is essentially springy or spring-loaded.
Abstract:
A hinge buffer device includes a casing, a slide, a buffer and an adjustment. The casing comprises a first end, a second end, a pair of lugs, a threaded hole, and a sliding trough. The lugs are disposed at two sides of the first end of the casing. The threaded hole is formed at the second end of the casing. The sliding trough is located between the first end and the second end of the casing. The slide comprises a compartment, a pair of sliding sections at respective sides to be engaged with the sliding trough of the casing. The buffer is a cylinder to be mounted in the compartment of the slide. The buffer comprises a piston rod secured to the slide. The adjustment is connected to the slide, and comprises a bolt to be engaged with the threaded hole of the casing.
Abstract:
A hinge for connection of two furniture parts comprises a bowl-shaped element designed to be fastened to a first furniture part and a wing rotatably in engagement with said bowl-shaped element, the wing being adapted to be fastened to an intermediate element that, in turn, is fastened to a hinge base designed to be secured to a second furniture part, a shock absorber being present which comprises a body designed to be rigidly connected to said second furniture part and a shock absorbing member movably mounted on said body to restrain the closing movement of the hinge. The shock absorber body is mounted on the intermediate element of the hinge.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a damping apparatus for moving furniture parts, for example doors, flaps or drawers. Such a damping apparatus of a compact construction which avoids a possible springing back movement of the furniture parts is provided in accordance with the invention in that the damping apparatus has at least two damping stages each having a cylinder having a piston longitudinally displaceable therein which exert a damping action of different strengths.
Abstract:
A device for preventing door slamming including a housing that has a bore formed therein, a control element that slides in the bore, the control element having a bore formed therein, a plunger that slides in and out of the bore of the control element, the plunger being biased against a distal end of the bore of the control element by a biasing device, and a stopper element received in the plunger and extending into the control element, wherein a slamming force applied on the plunger dislodges the stopper element from the plunger so that the stopper element becomes lodged in the control element and the housing, thereby preventing the control element from sliding in the bore of the housing.