US 12,252,918 B1
Vehicle door system and method of operation
Amos Boaz, Kibbutz Glil-Yam (IL); and Andrea Di Francescantonio, Leamington Spa (GB)
Assigned to REE AUTOMOTIVE LTD, Kibbutz Glil Yam (IL)
Filed by REE Automotive Ltd., Kibbutz Glil-Yam (IL)
Filed on Mar. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/695,523.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/161,491, filed on Mar. 16, 2021.
Int. Cl. B60J 5/04 (2006.01); E05D 15/06 (2006.01); E05D 15/40 (2006.01)
CPC E05D 15/0608 (2013.01) [B60J 5/0472 (2013.01); B60J 5/0498 (2013.01); E05D 15/40 (2013.01); E05Y 2201/624 (2013.01); E05Y 2201/684 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/531 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
a. a side wall shaped to define a door opening and a door-exclusion zone, the door-exclusion zone comprising at least one of a wheel well, a cargo compartment and an air conditioner, the door-exclusion zone having a maximum height that is higher than a bottom edge of the door opening and lower than a top edge of the door opening;
b. a rail joined to a major surface of the side wall;
c. an arm assembly pivotably anchored at a first end thereof to the side wall; and
d. a door having a closed-door position aligned with the door opening, a first portion of the door being slidably engaged with the rail and a second portion of the door being pivotably coupled to a second end of the arm assembly, the arm assembly and the rail being arranged to constrain movement of the door between the closed-door position and an open-door position higher in its entirety than the door-exclusion zone in its entirety, to a travel-path that does not impinge upon the door-exclusion zone,
wherein the door movement constrained to the travel-path includes, in a door-opening mode, an upward vector and a longitudinal vector toward the door-exclusion zone, and in a door-closing mode, a downward vector and a longitudinal vector away from the door-exclusion zone.