Adjusting device for a front lid

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9566941-B2
Application number	US-201414518266-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 20, 2014
Priority date	Oct 21, 2013
Publication date	Feb 14, 2017
Grant date	Feb 14, 2017

Abstract

Adjusting device for a front lid with an actuator for raising the rear edge of the front lid, wherein the adjusting device has a front-lid-mounted leg with a guide and a vehicle-body-mounted retaining element with a section guided the guide, wherein the guide of the front-lid-mounted leg is movable relative to the section of the retaining element by the actuator for raising the rear edge of the front lid.

First claim

What is claimed as new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent is set forth in the appended claims and includes equivalents of the elements recited therein:

1. An adjusting device for a front lid, comprising:
a front-lid-mounted leg comprising a guide,
a vehicle-body-mounted retaining element, with a section of the vehicle-body-mounted retaining element guided in the guide, and
an actuator constructed to move the guide of the front-lid-mounted leg relative to the section of the vehicle-body-mounted retaining element for raising a rear edge of the front lid,
wherein the actuator comprises a first vehicle-body-mounted rotary drive having a first rotatable leg that is connected in an articulated fashion to a first lever mounted on the front lid, and a second vehicle-body-mounted rotary drive having a second rotatable leg that is connected in an articulated fashion to a second lever mounted on the front lid.

2. The adjusting device of claim 1 , wherein the section of the vehicle-body-mounted retaining element is movable along the guide between two opposite stops.

3. The adjusting device of claim 1 , wherein the section of the vehicle-body-mounted retaining element guided in the guide comprises a bolt which forms a pivot axis for pivoting the front lid.

4. The adjusting device of claim 1 , wherein the first and second levers are mounted in an articulated manner at a common attachment point on the front lid.

5. The adjusting device of claim 1 , wherein the first rotary drive is arranged so as to move the front lid in a substantially vertical direction and the second rotary drive is arranged so as to move the front lid in a substantially horizontal direction.

6. The adjusting device of claim 1 , further comprising a control device configured to control the first and second rotary drives in a coordinated fashion.

7. The adjusting device of claim 6 , wherein the control device is configured to control the first and second rotary drives so as to move the rear edge of the front lid to a raised and horizontally shifted pedestrian protection position or to an even further raised and even further rearward-shifted type damage position.

8. The adjusting device of claim 1 , wherein the adjusting device is connected to a control device configured to control the first and second rotary drives in a coordinated fashion.

9. The adjusting device of claim 1 , further comprising a locking mechanism associated with the front lid, which allows movement of the front lid in an unlocked state.

10. A motor vehicle having at least one adjusting device for a front lid, the at least one adjusting device comprising:
a front-lid-mounted leg comprising a guide,
a vehicle-body-mounted retaining element, with a section of the vehicle-body-mounted retaining element guided in the guide, and
an actuator constructed to move the guide of the front-lid-mounted leg relative to the section of the vehicle-body-mounted retaining element for raising a rear edge of the front lid,
wherein the actuator comprises a first vehicle-body-mounted rotary drive having a first rotatable leg that is connected in an articulated fashion to a first lever mounted on the front lid, and a second vehicle-body-mounted rotary drive having a second rotatable leg that is connected in an articulated fashion to a second lever mounted on the front lid.

11. The motor vehicle of claim 10 , comprising two adjusting devices disposed on opposite sides of an engine compartment of the motor vehicle.

Assignees

• Audi Ag

Inventors

• Kugler Peter
• Dorfner Wolfgang
• Sternecker Harald
• Pfaller Bernhard Konrad
• Schindler Manfred

Classifications

• B60R21/38 Primary

  using means for lifting bonnets · CPC title

• E05F15/63

  operated by swinging arms · CPC title