Door hinge device of vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12188274-B2
Application number	US-202217586298-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2022
Priority date	Jun 28, 2021
Publication date	Jan 7, 2025
Grant date	Jan 7, 2025

Abstract

A door hinge apparatus of a vehicle may include a rail plate provided on one side of a vehicle body corresponding to an end portion of a door of the vehicle and formed with a rail in a width direction of the vehicle, a hinge slide unit including a slide bracket provided on the rail and a door hinge bracket provided on the door where the slide bracket includes a guide slot formed in a diagonal direction of the slide bracket and the slide bracket and the door hinge bracket are pivotally coupled each other through a hinge shaft, and an actuator having a roller configured at a rod to roll along the guide slot so that the slide bracket moves along the rail.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A door hinge apparatus of a vehicle, the door hinge apparatus comprising:
a rail plate provided on one side of a vehicle body corresponding to an end portion of a door of the vehicle and formed with a rail in a width direction of the vehicle;
a hinge slide unit including a slide bracket provided on the rail and a door hinge bracket provided on the door, wherein the slide bracket includes a guide slot formed in a diagonal direction of the slide bracket and the slide bracket and the door hinge bracket are pivotally coupled to each other through a hinge shaft; and
an actuator including a rod coupled to the guide slot to move along the guide slot so that the slide bracket moves along the rail.

2. The door hinge apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the actuator includes a roller rotatably mounted on an end of the rod to roll along the guide slot.

3. The door hinge apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the end portion of the door is a rear end portion of a rear door.

4. The door hinge apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the rail plate is provided on a side external panel corresponding to the rear end portion of the rear door and the rail is disposed from a vehicle front internal side of the vehicle body toward a vehicle rear external side thereof.

5. The door hinge apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the slide bracket of the hinge slide unit includes a space portion having a lower portion opened to accommodate the rod therein, includes the guide slot in the diagonal direction at first and second side surfaces of the side bracket, and is configured to move along the rail through a slider of the slide bracket, the slider being slidably coupled to the rail.

6. The door hinge apparatus of claim 5 ,
wherein the door hinge bracket of the hinge slide unit is fixed to the end portion of the door, and connected to an external end portion of the slide bracket through the hinge shaft.

7. The door hinge apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the guide slot is formed at first and second side surfaces of the slide bracket downwardly in the diagonal direction from a vehicle internal side of the vehicle body toward a vehicle external side thereof.

8. The door hinge apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the rail is respectively formed at upper and lower portions of the rail plate corresponding to a vehicle external side of the guide slot.

9. The door hinge apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the actuator includes a linear motor provided with a roller at a frontal end portion of the rod.

10. The door hinge apparatus of claim 9 ,
wherein the actuator is provided under the rail plate upwardly and mounted on a mounting bracket;
wherein the rod of the actuator is disposed inside a space portion; and
wherein the roller is rotatably connected to the frontal end portion of the rod and in rolling contact with the guide slot.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Corp

Inventors

• Lee Jaeseung
• Lee Dae Hee
• Han Seung Sik
• Nam Yonghyun
• Yim Chungsik

Classifications

• E05D15/58 Primary

  with both swinging and sliding movements · CPC title

• E05F15/60

  using electrical actuators · CPC title

• E05Y2201/708

  Sliders · CPC title

• E05D3/18

  with sliding pins or guides · CPC title

• E05Y2800/296

  Slots · CPC title