| US 7,540,207 B2 | ||
| Device for actuating the doors of vehicles | ||
| Werner Hoffman, Bad Mergentheim (Germany); and Alexander Eck, Poppenhausen (Germany) | ||
| Assigned to Wittenstein AG, Igersheim (Germany) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/502,063 PCT Filed Oct. 15, 2002, PCT No. PCT/EP02/11521 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Feb. 11, 2005, PCT Pub. No. WO03/062576, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 31, 2003. |
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| Prior Publication US 2005/0235565 A1, Oct. 27, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. F16H 21/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 74—25 | 12 Claims |
| 1. A device for actuating doors of a vehicle comprising:
an actuator element mounted within an actuation device for relative rotational movement with the actuator element about an
axis M and reciprocal linear movement in a direction X wherein the direction X is parallel to the rotational axis M;
a shaft element extending along axis M and having a first end connected to a door and a second end connected to a front surface
of the actuator element;
a drive means for sequentially driving one of (1) the actuator and (2) actuation device about axis M and thereafter in direction X through a stroke distance H between a first position and a second
position;
the actuation device comprises a cylinder element having rotational symmetry around axis M and having a front surface in which
a carrier element is rotatably mounted about axis M;
the carrier element has a coupling on a surface thereof which engages with a coupling on the front surface of the actuator
element when the actuator element is in the first position;
and link means for linking an outer surface of the actuator element to an inner surface of the actuation device.
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